Numbers 34 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 34.

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Meditate on verses 1-2.

 

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Command

 the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you

enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall

 to you as an inheritance, even the

land of Canaan according to its borders.’”

 

In this chapter, God laid out the borders for the land promised to the Israelites; the land was their inheritance from Him.  When you became a Christian, you, too, received a precious inheritance from God:

 

Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who

according to His great mercy has caused us to

 be born again to a living hope through the resurrection

of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance

which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away,

 reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by

 the power of God through faith for a salvation

 ready to be revealed in the last time.

—1 Peter 1:3-5

 

Think about your precious God-given inheritance described as undecaying, unsoiled, and unfading, carefully guarded in heaven for you.  And not only is your inheritance protected, you yourself are eternally kept and saved by God’s power.  These are important truths to remember and to tell others who need to know they, too, can receive an eternal inheritance when they belong to Jesus.

 

Using the words from Numbers 34:29, pray to be the one God uses to apportion the inheritance of salvation to those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, I will obey Your command to apportion

 the inheritance of salvation by telling others about You.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numbers 33 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 33.

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Meditate on verses 55-56.  The LORD is speaking.

 

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land

 from before you, then it shall come about that

 those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks

in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will

 trouble you in the land in which you live. And

 as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.”

 

The Israelites made forty stops in forty years before finally landing on the plains of Moab (vs. 5-48).  As they prepared to enter the promised land of Canaan, the LORD gave them these instructions:

 

“When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then

 you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from

 before you, and destroy all their figured stones,

 and destroy all their molten images and demolish

 all their high places; and you shall take possession

 of the land and live in it, for I have given

 the land to you to possess it.

—Numbers 33:51b-53

 

The Canaanites were idolatrous people; they and everything they worshiped had to be removed so the Israelites would not be tempted to worship their gods, practicing their sinful lifestyle.

 

What tempts you away from God?  Remove it so you can live the plans God has for you. 

 

Pray the opposite of Numbers 33:55 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, let ________ and me drive out sin from before us.

 Let none of it remain so that it becomes as pricks

 in our eyes and as thorns in our sides. 

Do not let sin trouble us as we live with You, LORD.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

 

Numbers 32- Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 32.

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Meditate on verses 11-13.

 

None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old

 and upward, shall see the land which I swore to

 Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,

 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite

 and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed

 the LORD fully. So, the LORD'S anger burned against Israel,

 and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until

the entire generation of those who had done evil

 in the sight of the LORD was destroyed.

 

Observe the contrast between the Israelite men and Joshua and Caleb.  God described the men as not fully following Him; however, Joshua and Caleb followed the LORD fully.  These two men were allowed to enter the promised land, but the rest were not.  That generation of men was destroyed because of their evil deeds.

 

Have you ever thought about not fully following God as evil?  The LORD expects total allegiance to Him; not remaining loyal to Him is evil and invites calamity into one’s life. 

 

Evaluate your walk with Christ.  Would He describe you as following Him fully?  Confess areas where you do not wholeheartedly walk with Him and ask Him to help you give Him your unwavering loyalty.

 

Pray Numbers 32:12 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, please make __________ and me like

 Caleb and Joshua; may we follow You fully.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

 

Numbers 31 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 31.

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Meditate on verses 15-16.

 

And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?

Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel

of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor,

 so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.”

 

Numbers 31 tells the rest of the story of Balaam being hired by King Balak to curse Israel, so they would not be able to destroy the pagan nations surrounding their promised land (Numbers 22:1-7).  The Midianites were part of that group who hoped Israel would be destroyed.  Taking Balaam’s advice, the women seduced the Israelites into adulterous idolatry by joining themselves to Baal through sexual intimacy (Numbers 25:1-9).  God had already punished the Israelites for their foolishness; now He commanded the Midianites be destroyed, so they could not seduce His people into unfaithfulness again.

 

Are there things in your life seducing you from faithfulness to God?  Spend time asking God to reveal them to you, even the “little ones” (v. 17).  Ask God to help you remove them, so they do not hinder your walk with Christ.

 

As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), use the words from Numbers 31:15-17 to ask God to help you and those you love remove unfaithfulness from your midst.  

 

“LORD, do not let _________ and me spare anything

 that causes us to trespass against You.

We do not want a plague among us. 

Help us to kill every little thing that keeps us

 from intimately knowing You, LORD.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

 

Numbers 30 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 30.

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Meditate on verses 1b-2.

 

This is the word which the LORD has commanded.

 "If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or takes an oath

to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not

 violate his word; he shall do according to

 all that proceeds out of his mouth.”

 

Perhaps you are surprised when others keep their word, doing what they say they will do.  Perhaps you struggle with carrying through on promises, leaving others disappointed.  Meditate on these Bible verses:

 

For my mouth will utter truth; and

wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness;

there is nothing crooked or perverted in them.

—Proverbs 8:7-8

 

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,

but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

—Proverbs 10:11

 

The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words.

—Psalm 119:57

 

Ask the LORD to help you be a person of integrity who keeps His Word and as a result, keeps your word, bringing righteousness, truth, and life to those around you.

 

Pray Numbers 30:2b over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, please make _________ and me people

 who do not violate our word.

Help us do according to all that

proceeds out of our mouths.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

 

Numbers 29 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 29.

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Meditate on verse 7.

 

Then on the tenth day of this seventh month you

 shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble

 yourselves; you shall not do any work.

 

Have you ever thought about rest being an act of humility?  Pride motivates people to work all the time, doing more than those around them and resenting those not as productive as they. 

 

Rest is important to God.  After creating the world in six days, He rested on the seventh day, setting an example for us to obey.

 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

  Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God;

 you shall not do any work… For in six days the LORD

 made the heavens and the earth,

 the sea and all that is in them, and rested

 on the seventh day; therefore, the LORD

blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

—Exodus 20:8-11

 

Ask the LORD to show you areas where pride drives you to work laboriously rather than rest in Him.  Do you ever cancel your daily quiet time with God because your to-do list is long?  Do you work an extra hour hoping to get ahead instead of giving your family the attention they desperately crave?  Do you justify the world’s way of keeping the sabbath, working to get caught up, participating in sporting events, getting the shopping and laundry done…?

 

Pray Numbers 29:7 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, help _______ and me humble ourselves

 and not do any work when You give the command to rest.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

 

Numbers 28 - Praying God's Word

Please read Numbers 28.

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Meditate on verses 3 and 6.

 

This is the offering by fire which you shall offer

 to the LORD: two male lambs one year old without defect

 as a continual burnt offering every day.

It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained

 in Mount Sinai as a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.

 

God required the Israelites to daily present two perfect, unblemished lambs as a continual burnt offering.  This offering was to be made to God at all times, without interruption. 

 

Picture yourself living under that law, daily finding two faultless lambs to offer to God to cover your sins.  As the enormity of that task sinks in, thank Jesus for being the perfect Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).

 

For the Law… can never, by the same sacrifices

which they offer continually year by year, make

 perfect those who draw near.  But in those sacrifices, there

 is a reminder of sins year by year.  We have been

sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ

 once for all.  He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, … has

 perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

—Hebrews 10:1, 3, 10, 12, 14

 

As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), pray Numbers 28:22 over those who need Jesus to be their sin offering and thank Him for making atonement¹ for you.

 

“LORD, thank You for being my sin offering

 to make atonement for me.

Please let __________ receive You as their

 sin offering to make atonement for them.

Because You are the perfect sin offering, Jesus~”

 

1.      Atonement is the Hebrew word kaphar, and it means “to cover, to cancel, to appease, to cleanse sin with the blood of a sacrifice.” Retrieved from www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3722&t=NASB

 

 

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

Numbers 27 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 27.

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Meditate on verses 12-14.

 

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go up to this mountain of Abarim,

and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel. 

When you have seen it, you too will be gathered to

your people, as Aaron your brother was; for in the wilderness of Zin,

 during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My

 command to treat Me as holy before their eyes at the water."

 (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

 

Kadesh…it was there the Israelites chose to doubt God and focus on giants (Numbers 13:25-14:38).   God punished them severely for their unbelief (Numbers 26:64-65).  It was also at Kadesh that Moses did not believe God nor treat Him as holy, twice striking the rock to get water for the people instead of speaking to it (Numbers 20:7-13).  God severely punished Moses for his disobedient unbelief as well; he was not allowed to lead the Israelites into the promised land (vs. 12-14).

 

Be mindful when God brings you to “Kadesh,” the place of decision to believe and obey Him.  It will be a place requiring you to wholeheartedly trust God despite overwhelming circumstances.  It will be a place requiring you to humbly acknowledge God’s holiness, so others can see that salvation comes from Him.

 

Notice Moses’ heart for the people.  If Moses could not lead them into the land, he wanted God to give them a good leader to take his place.  Pray Moses’ prayer from Numbers 27:16-17 over a church for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man

 over the congregation who will go

 out and come in before them

 and who will lead them out and bring them in,

 so that the congregation of the LORD will

 not be like sheep which have no shepherd.

For the sake of Your church, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

 

Numbers 26 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 26.

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Meditate on verses 63-65.

 

These are those who were numbered by Moses

 and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in

 the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

 But among these there was not a man of those who were

 numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered

 the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

For the LORD had said of them, "They shall surely die in the wilderness."

And not a man was left of them, except Caleb

 the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

 

Nearly 40 years passed since God had Moses number the males twenty years old and older—those men able to go to war (Numbers 1:1-3; 26:2).  Tragically, the men in the first census (except for Joshua and Caleb) were not included in this second census because they were dead:

 

"Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you

 have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely

do to you; your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even

 all your numbered men, according to your complete

number from twenty years old and upward,

who have grumbled against Me.’”

—Numbers 14:28-29

 

And, because those men died, Israel had 1,820 fewer men than when they left Egypt 40 years earlier (Numbers 1:46; 26:51).  Oh, the consequences of sin!

 

Notice in the first census, the Levites were not numbered at all because their job was to care for the tabernacle rather than go to war (Numbers 1:47-53).  In the second census, every Levite male from a month old was numbered (v. 62).  As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), pray for God to number your loved ones from the time they are born as belonging to Him, using the words from Numbers 26:62.

 

“LORD, please number _________ and me as Yours.

Because You are our inheritance, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

 

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