“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water” (Psalm 63:1 ESV). In Psalm 63, David wrote to express his deep longing for God while he was in the wilderness of Judah.
“Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us” (Psalm 62:8 ESV). David wrote this psalm to call God’s people to the same steady trust he had learned through seasons of opposition and instability. Having testified that God alone was his rock and salvation,
“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd” (Numbers 27:16–17 ESV).
“After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions” (Luke 2:46 ESV). Luke wrote his Gospel after carefully gathering eyewitness accounts (cf. Luke 1:1-4), and this intimate story likely came from Mary herself, who “treasured up” all these things in her heart (Luke 2:19,
“O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love” (Psalm 59:17 ESV). In Psalm 59, David wrote to God while enemies surrounded his house and sought his life. The psalm opened with desperate cries for deliverance in the night as David
“And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways” (Luke 1:76 ESV). In the Gospel of Luke, he recorded the Spirit-filled prophecy of Zechariah spoken at the naming of his son, John. After nine months of imposed silence, Zechariah spoke with
“…And the people became impatient on the way” (Numbers 21:4 ESV). In the book of Numbers, Moses recorded Israel’s wilderness journey as the Lord led His people toward the Promised Land. After the death of Aaron at Mount Hor, the Israelites set out again, traveling south toward the Red Sea in order to go around
“Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them” (Numbers 20:12 ESV). “And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take
“And he said to them, ‘Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.’” (Mark 16:6 ESV). In the Gospel of Mark, he recorded that when the women came to Jesus’ tomb early on the first day of
“And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after” (Numbers 15:39 ESV). In the book of Numbers, Moses recorded God’s instruction to the Israelites