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Numbers 20:1 A great mob formed, and they held a protest meeting; "Would that we too had died with our dear brothers the Lord killed! "they shouted at Moses. "You have deliberately brought us into this wilderness to get rid of us, along with our flocks and herds. Why did you ever make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this evil place? Where is the fertile land of wonderful crops--the figs, vines...

OVERKILL - TRIAL NUMBER 7 Numbers 11:4-6 Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our soul is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes...

TRIAL NUMBER 6 - COMPLAINING Numbers 11:1 Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some on the fringes of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched. So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the L...

Exodus 32:2 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” And Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your s...

In ancient times people believed in gods of one kind or another and the gods lived in a different world, an unseen world, so they made idols. There’s a simple logic in this. Something bigger than us it seemed was in charge of what happened at a mega level of cosmic activity and design, the weather, the seasons, life and death, what appeared to be good fortune and bad fortune etc. So they did their...

Psalm 26:8; Psalm 27; Psalm 91; Hebrew 4:16 The fallen-world system can only offer uncertainty and chaos. It can assure nothing. Everywhere, people try to mitigate uncertainty by placing faith in superannuation, the stock market, investments, medicine, alliances, formulas. Millions of dollars go into prognostication, yet fear, depression, paranoia and stress abound. These are in fact, disorder! If...

THE TEN TRIALS – Trial - THE LIVING WATERS Exodus 17:1… There was no water for the people to drink... and they complained against Moses And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river. I will stand before you there on the rock between you and Mount Sinai; and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may have water.” So he c...

THE TEN TRIALS – Trial 3 - THE BREAD OF LIFE Exodus Chapter 16:3 “If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food (manna vs.15) from heaven for you. Each day the people ca...

THE TEN TRIALS – Trial 2 - THE BITTER WATERS Exodus 15:22-25 So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur, and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. 24 And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” So he cried out...

THE TEN TRIALS - THE RED SEA Hebrews 3:8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me and tried Me, and saw My works for forty years. Numbers 14:22 All these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, THE PURPOSE...

We can wonder where we are on our life journey. We can have ideas about where we should be by now and who we should be by now and what we should have by now. When we look at the external features of all this, the ‘outer journey’ there may be some real disappointment or discontent – where is life going for me? Sometimes there’s a crisis, and God watches as the crisis is set up. He prepares our path...

Ephesians 5:15 ‘See then that you walk diligently, wisely and not irresponsibly, redeeming the time, because we live in times of much corruption. Therefore do not be thoughtless, but seek to understand what the will of the Lord is. (NKJ) The word used for ‘time’ here is kairos – God’s appointed time, not chronos – Clock time. The word used for ‘will of The Lord’ – thelema - God’s heart to bless yo...

John 12:18 The crowd that had been with him when he raised Lazarus from the dead and called him out of the tomb continued to talk about this event, and the reason why the crowd went to meet him as he entered Jerusalem was that they heard he had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one another, “Look, the world has gone after him. No-one is listening to us anymore. ” Now among those who went up...

John 9:1 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him… He then spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the c...

Jesus upholds all things by the word of his power, and behind that word is God’s loving thought. God loves everything he creates and he keeps everything by his loving thought. God’s creation is not just the display of a mechanical adaptation of creatures in a race for survival. He creates, loves, and keeps. He compares us to his natural creation to remind us that everywhere we look we see his love...

Psalm 110:1 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power… The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. He will shatter leaders all over the world… he will shatter kings on the day of his judgment. STEPHEN ACCUSES ISRAEL OF RESISTING THE HOLY SPIRIT Acts 7:51 "You stiff-necked heathen! Must you always resist the Holy Spirit? But as your fathers did, so do you! Name one prophet your anc...

John 15:7 If you abide in me and my word abides in you, you shall ask what you desire and it will be done for you. Abiding is purposefully allowing God to take us along path of spiritual progress and purpose with all the ordinary things that happen to us. This is a process of faith, a powerful, active stillness, an acceptance of ‘what is’ that acknowledges the Holy Spirit’s work upon our yielded m...

Luke 10:25 One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” (The future hope Daniel 12:2) Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?” The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbo...

Luke 19:1 He entered Jericho and was passing through. And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he loo...

The key to true humility is in knowing and accepting who we are and who we are not. We are who God says we are, not what other people say, and also not what our own mind often says we are. The story of Daniel Ritchie - www.danielritchie.org  Psalm 139 When we learn live and speak from who we really are we also learn to know and respect other people for who they are, and when we learn to listen to...

Abraham was the father of Isaac and Ishmael, and Isaac had twin sons Jabob and Esau. Isaac favored the older brother Esau, an ‘outdoor man’ like himself, who was to inherit the patriarchal blessing. But Jacob wanted that blessing. He wanted the best that God had to offer while Esau wanted the best the world had to offer. So Jacob cheated Esau out of the patriarchal blessing by exchanging it for so...

  Psalm 32:4 Day and Night I could feel life’s pressure on me and I knew it was your hand on me, getting my attention. Energy seemed to run out of my soul and evaporate like water on hot sand. 5. I finally admitted all my fears and failures to you and stopped trying to hide what I was like. When I opened up to you, your mercy and forgiveness took away all my guilt and shame. 6. Now I say to anyone...

All the angels and all those who had come with Jesus on the upward journey from the grave to the sky beheld their king as he offered himself to the Father as the risen firstborn - The Lamb of God, sacrificed for us from before the beginning of time. Those of the company who had waited throughout time also took their places of honor in their new home and joined in the magnificent celebration. Jesus...

IN THE WORLD What does it mean to be in the world? I said last week that the world does things to us. But we live in the beauty of an ordered creation, whose amazing life and substance bless us, and which must be appreciated for what it is, and be enjoyed and given thanks for what God provides for us in it. It was faultless in the beginning – a gift, a garden, where something bad happened, and all...

OLD TESTAMENT BELONGING Israel was God’s holy nation, chosen by Him and belonging to Him. No other tribe or nation had this distinct status of belonging, and Israel was not evangelical, not required to bring other tribes and nations into Israel. Their purpose was to bring forth the Messiah and to give him to the world and to be God’s living witness to the fact that God did exist and that He showed...