by David Keesling | May 17, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Deuteronomy 3:28 “But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see” (NIV). Observation: Moses has asked the Lord for permission to cross the Jordan into the Promised...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by David Keesling | May 16, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Deuteronomy 2:25 “This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you” (NIV). Observation: Forty years of desert wandering had come to an end. It...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by David Keesling | May 15, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Mark 5:40 “But they laughed at Him” (NIV). Observation: Jairus, an administrator of the local synagogue, had asked Jesus to lay hands on his dying twelve-year-old daughter. Meanwhile at the house mournful wails accompanying death had already begun. Jesus and Jairus...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by David Keesling | May 14, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Galatians 1:24 “And they praised God because of me” (NIV). Observation: In this opening chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he said he was “astonished” (Gal. 1:6) that people he had only recently had a hand in bringing to Christ are so readily abandoning the...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by David Keesling | May 13, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Deuteronomy 2:5 “Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on” (NIV). Observation: Israel had begun their desert wanderings under God’s specific direction. In Deuteronomy 2:4, He had said they were about to...