Sat.’s Devo - Nothing is Too Big for God

Read: Numbers 21:1-22:20; Luke 1:26-56; Psalm 57:1-11; Proverbs 11:9-11
As the Israelites got closer and closer to their land, the inhabitants of the land were watching everything that was happening. The king of Arad was one of these people. They attacked the Israelites and took some of them prisoner. The Israelites vowed to completely destroy all their towns which was exactly what God wanted them to do, so he helped them do just that.
The Israelites continued their journey around the land of Edom, since the Edomites refused to let them go through their land. The children of Israel started complaining about everything - the lack of water, the manna, Moses, etc. So, God sent poisonous snakes which killed many of them. They got the message and repented. The Lord told Moses to have them make a replica of the snake and attach it to a pole. If they got bit by one of the snakes, they could look at the pole and be healed. The snake on the pole represented the cross that if we are dying of sin, we can look upon the one who was cursed for us and receive eternal life and be healed.
When the Israelites came to the land of the Amorites, Moses asked King Sihon if they could travel through their land peacefully. He refused to let them and mobilized his entire army to fight them. The Israelites won and captured all their cities with Heshbon being their capital. Heshbon means “reason”. Carnal reasoning is the enemy of seeing spiritually.
Their next challenge was King Og of Bashan. They killed them and kept going toward Jericho. Balak, the Moabite king had seen what they had done to the others and needed a better strategy than war. He hired a sorcerer by the name of Balaam to put a curse on the Israelites. Balaam was the son of an Edomite king so he was an enemy of Israel also, but as a sorcerer, he knew spiritual authority and God was at the top of the structure. He told Balak that God would not let him come and do that. Balak appealed to Balaam’s pride and desire for fame and fortune. Balaam had gone to God three times about this till finally, God let him go but he had told him he could only say what God told him to say.
In Luke, Elizabeth was pregnant with John the Baptist when the same angel came to Mary, her relative and told her she would become pregnant by the Holy Spirit and this baby would be named Jesus. He would be called the Son of the Most High and God would give him the throne of David. He would reign over Israel forever and his kingdom would never end. The angel told her that Elizabeth was pregnant too. His last words to her were: “the word of God will never fail.”
Mary ran to see Elizabeth and when she walked into her house, John leaped in her womb. They praised God and fellowshipped together until John was born. Then Mary went home. She was in her forth month of pregnancy by then.
Lord, thank you that your word will never fail. We stand on that.