My Bible Journey: Week of March 9

Numbers 11:25 = “this was the only time this happened”…interesting
Numbers 11:26-29 = a good lesson for today’s church leadership
Numbers 11:33-35 = not a plague in the sense of disease, but death by gorging on animal meat after a diet of only manna—another example of sin being its own reward/punishment
Numbers 12:3 = “Moses was more humble than any other person on earth.”
Numbers 12:6-8 = God had a very special relationship with Moses
Numbers 12:11 = Aaron gets it right in his confession
Numbers 13:3 = the spies were all leaders
Numbers 13:16 = Joshua renamed from a generality to a specific
Numbers 13:20 = “enter the land boldly”
Numbers 13:30 = optimist
Numbers 13:31 = pessimists
Numbers 14:1-3 = many of our church conflicts are caused by a lack of faith—we can’t see how something will occur )we doubt God) and begin to complain against those with vision and choose to go our own way
Numbers 14:10 = stone the visionaries!!!
Numbers 14:13-25 = the Lord can be pleaded with for mercy
Numbers 14:44-45 = Smackdown!
Numbers 15 = even though the current generation was denied the Promised Land, God still continued to prepare His people
Numbers 15:17-29 = we can’t just let unintentional sin slide, it has to be dealt with too
Numbers 15:30-31 = OUCH!
Numbers 15:37-41 = like a WWJD bracelet
Numbers 16 = rebellion against holy leadership simply because of wanting to not be bossed around. They didn’t want to be “just” servants, they wanted to be leaders. They didn’t see service as equal in worth to leadership.
Numbers 16:12-17 = false accusations against Moses
Numbers 16:18-20 = the chief instigator “stirred up the entire community against Moses,” making his private sin public, and causing those he “stirred up” to sin along with him
Numbers 16:22 = Moses moves God’s heart again
Numbers 16:33 = buried alive
Numbers 16:34 = burned alive
Numbers 16:36-38 = redeeming power of God, the profaned made holy
Numbers 16:41 = they started complaining again the very next day!
Numbers 16:47-48 = Aaron’s actions foretell the work of Christ
Numbers 17:5 = as if everything God had done through Moses and Aaron wasn’t proof enough
Numbers 17:7 = almonds!
Numbers 18:5 = follow the Lord’s instructions
Numbers 18:7 = I wonder if we really have any concept of the holiness of God?
Numbers 18:15-19 = part of the purpose of offerings was to meet the needs of the ministers
Numbers 18:25 = even the ministers were to tithe—set aside the best portions
Numbers 19 = the Lord (I think) emphasizes that He is the Lord of life. Death is an unclean thing to Him and His people
Numbers 20:2 = rebellion is never the solution to lack of necessities
Numbers 20:6 = Moses and Aaron constantly proved they loved the people
Numbers 20:12 = the price of disobedience often results in a lesser blessing, or the removal of a blessing
Numbers 20:29 = they mourned Aaron even though they constantly rebelled against him as God’s chosen priest
Numbers 21:4-7 = don’t complain about the blessings of God, nor call His goodness “wretched,” you won’t like the results
Numbers 21:8-9 = look to the Lord who is your Healer
Numbers 21:17 = “spring up, o well”
Numbers 22:8-20 = Balaam starts out on the right track
Numbers 22:22 = why was God angry at Balaam doing what He told him to do?
Numbers 22:29 = Balaam doesn’t seem shocked that the donkey suddenly talks
Numbers 22:34 = Balaam still seems to be on the right path so far
Numbers 22:38 = “I have no power to say just anything. I will speak only the messages that God gives me.”
Numbers 23:8 = “How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I condemn those whom the Lord has not condemned?”
Numbers 23:19 = “God is not a man, that He should lie. He is not a human, that He should change His mind.”
Mark 14:24 = “all of you will desert Me”
14:29 = Peter—foot-in-mouth disease
14:31 = don’t be too hard on Peter, all the other disciples vowed the same
14:38 = “Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you.”
14:56 = false witnesses contradict each other
14:55-59 = false charges and lies
14:61 = Jesus refused to answer false accusations
Mark 15:2 = Jesus admits His kingship, but does not invoke its power or priviledge
15:15 = the essence of non-leadership: “Pilate, anxious to please the crowd”
15:40-41 = women who had cared for Jesus
15:43 = Joseph was “waiting for the Kinging of God to come”
Mark 16:1 = still caring for Jesus
16:7 = “including Peter”
16:9-20 = “Longer Ending”
Luke 1:3 = “Having carefully investigated all of these accounts from the beginning, I have decided to write a careful summary for you, to reassure you of the truth of all you were taught.”
1:5-25 = there, in the example of Zechariah, Elizabeth, and the praying crowd, is evidence of faith (true faith, not Pharisaic) still existing among God’s people.
1:29 = Mary was “confused and disturbed” from being visited by an angel. Wouldn’t you be too?
1:38 = Mary: “I am the Lord’s servant, and I am willing to accept whatever He wants.” The essence of true servanthood
1:46-55 = The Magnificat
1:63-64 = the rewards of obedience
1:68-79 = the long-awaited promises are about to begin. What an awesome time to have lived in!
Psalm 53:1 = definition of a fool: someone who says there is no God
Psalm 54:1, 4, 7 = Rescuer; Defender; Helper; Keeper; Rescuer
Psalm 55:8 = I could give up and run away
55:12-14 = the worst enemy is a former friend, especially one who has turned from God
55:20-21 = the nature of a false friend
55:22 = the care of God for the godly
Psalm 57:10 = “Your unfailing love is as high as the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds” Someboy should write some songs about this
Proverbs 11:1 = God loves honesty, hates cheating
11:2 = pride=disgrace; humility=wisdom
11:7 = the wicked rely on their own feeble strength
11:9 = evil word destroy friends
11:12-13 = a person with good sense remains silent; a gossip goes around revealing secrets