Daily Bread — Thursday, July 4, 2024
The Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. (Deuteronomy 30:1-3) Where there is repentance there is restoration. When God's people repent with...
27 Sivan — His Anger Is Only For A Moment
It was on this day that Miriam ended a seven-day confinement, as recorded in Numbers 12: “So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again. And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, July 3, 2024
When all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice with all your heart and with all...
26 Sivan — His Thoughts Are Not Our Thoughts
It was on this day in 1942 that the German army was defeated at the battle of El Alamein in northern Africa. With the defeat of the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, the greatest threat, at that point in time, to the Jewish people who were living in the Holy Land, was...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, July 2, 2024
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 29:29) As we discussed in the previous devotion, there are different ideas as to what was...
25 Sivan — Sons of Abraham
What is the Gospel? As a child I was told that Messiah had died for my sins and if I confess my sins, believing that God had raised Him from the dead, I could be forgiven of my sins and be granted eternal life. Over the years I’ve heard other people put forth...
Daily Bread — Monday, July 1, 2024
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 29:29) The traditional understanding of this verse is that there are certain issues and...
24 Sivan — Father Knows Best
Have you ever had something in your heart to do that you felt was a good thing to do, even a Godly thing to do, but you kept encountering roadblocks in your way? Try as you might, there were these pesky obstacles that never seemed to go away? I remember, as a child in...
Daily Bread — Sunday, June 30, 2024
And so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart”—as though the drunkard could be included with the sober. (Deuteronomy 29:19) Far too...
23 Sivan — The Consequence of Competition
It was on this day that Jeroboam, leader of the Northern Kingdom, prevented the tribes of the Northern Kingdom from traveling to Jerusalem to worship during the Feasts: “Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, ‘It is too much...
Daily Bread — Saturday, June 29, 2024
That there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood. (Deuteronomy 29:18) Moses...
22 Sivan — Paths of Righteousness
Have you ever noticed how the Bible tells the same story over and again? I have. In fact, I’ve come to the conclusion that the Bible is essentially the same story told to us in different ways. The same themes are taught repeatedly, just though different biblical...