In today's Bible study, Joshua asked God a simple question that many of us are asking, are you for me or against me. But God gave him an answer he wasn't expecting. God told him no.
Key Verse:
When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, "No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord . Now I have come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, "What does my Lord say to his servant?"
Joshua 5:13-14
In today's Bible study, God told Joshua if he did 3 things, his life would be successful. If we do these 3 things our lives will be successful too!
Key Verse:
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Joshua 1:8
In today's Bible study, God gave the Israelites a choice. He said they could choose a blessing or a curse. We have the same choice today.
Key verse:
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse
Deuteronomy 11:26
In today's Bible study, God is the one who gives us the power to create wealth. Do you honor God with your money?
Key Verse:
Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'
Deuteronomy 8:17
In today's Bible study, it isn't enough to just be saved by grace, God wants us to be righteous. But how do we do that?
Key Verse:
And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.'
Deuteronomy 6:25
In today's Bible study, God told the Israelites what they needed to do so He would show His love to them. We can do the same today and get the same result!
Key Verse:
but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:10
In today's Bible study, God wants us to raise our kids to fear Him. Not just take our kids to church or tell them to pray, but to have an actual relationship with God.
Key Verse:
Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'
Deuteronomy 4:10b
In today's Bible study, sometimes it's hard to understand the laws of the Old Testament. Some of the laws may seem outdated, strange or downright icky, but these laws were revolutionary at the time and the basis of our morality today.
Key Verse:
And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deuteronomy 4:8
In today's Bible study, God promised the Israelites that He would fight their battles for them. He's saying the same thing to you.
Key verse:
You shall not fear them, for it is the Lord your God who fights for you.
Deuteronomy 3:22
In today's Bible study I finally find out why Balaam is called wicked in the Bible, even though the only story I know about him is about him doing what God tells him to do.
Thanks to Epic Kate Bjärgvide for pointing this out to me. Make sure to check out her YouTube channel!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD_uxYlLSn4fnoBwuAKDkhg
Key Verse:
Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord .
Numbers 31:16
In today's Bible study, when Phinehas saw someone sinning publicly in the Israelite camp he didn't wait, he took action!
Key Verse:
When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.
Numbers 25:7-8
In today's Bible study, it's Freebie Friday! Josiah gives a story about God providing what he and his wife needed and talks about when Jesus walked about the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.
In today's Bible study we're answering the question, does God still love me even though I messed up?
Key Verse:
He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.
Numbers 23:21
In today's Bible study, will God keep the promises He made, or can He change His mind? Or will He just forget and never do what He said He'd do?
Key Verse:
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Numbers 23:19
In today's Bible study I go on a crazy rant about the story of Balaam and why it makes me so angry.
Key Verse:
And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only do what I tell you."
Numbers 22:20
In today's Bible study, Balaam told Balak he wouldn't do anything unless God told him to, not matter what Balak paid him. Do you and I have the same attitude?
Key Verse:
But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God to do less or more.
Numbers 22:18
In today's Bible study, what is Good Friday? Why do Christians celebrate it? What make Good Friday so good?
In today's Bible study, God told Moses to make a statue of a snake on a stick. he said the Israelites would be saved from dying if they looked at it. Turns out the same is true for you an me...
Key Verse:
So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
Numbers 21:9
In today's Bible study, God told the Levites to take what was given to God as their portion, but to dedicate the best portion to Him. Are you giving God the best in your life?
Key Verse:
Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the Lord; from each its best part is to be dedicated.'
Numbers 18:29
In today's Bible study, the Israelites we're terrified to be in God presence because almost everyone who was died. We can freely be with God whenever we want, but we take it for granted.
Key Verse:
Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord , shall die. Are we all to perish?"
Numbers 17:13
