Numbers In The Bible - 60 Day Devotional Series

[Jerry]

Numbers In The Bible - 60 Day Devotional Series

I am so excited to announce that next week, my webpartner on EarnestlyContending.com, Kate Plourde, and I will be starting a 30-day devotional series. We will be working together to bring you devotionals dealing with "Numbers in the Bible." These devotionals will be posted on both of our blogs, Buy The Truth and Maranatha, so you can catch them here on OB or at either blog site. We'll be starting with sevens and eights, but not limiting ourselves just to those numbers because there is so much to glean from in this area! We're looking forward to working together on this and pray that you will join us over the next 30 days and receive a blessing!

This series will be posted each weekday (there will be thirty devotionals altogether in this series, so it it will actually take us more than a month to cover them all). Kate and I will be alternating the studies. We have decided to use one of my devotionals first, then one of hers. Each of us will add their own perspective to each new devotional posted. We want to have a good variety of devotionals to keep you interested, to pass on what has really blessed our hearts from various passages the Lord has impressed on our hearts, and to be a blessing to all those who read our blogs.

Kate has been posting her 30 day devotionals series throughout 2007, and I have been intrigued by the variety and insight in them. We have bounced ideas off of each other - sometimes taking and building upon what the other has written, interacting with one another and further developing newer studies - many times what one of us has written or posted has been the springboard for deeper digging into the Scriptures for the other, for being challenged on various themes or passages. We have been Admins together on another wonderful message board (The Fundamental Baptist Forum), been webpartners on our personal websites (though the content of each site is our own, we are united under one solid banner of EarnestlyContending.com, with another friend of ours, Angela Trenholm), and to an extent helped each other develop our own blogs, so I truly am looking forward to working together on this new project.

Please leave your comments and suggestions for further devotionals in this series, as we are still choosing which passages, etc. to cover over the course of the next month or so. We would love to hear your feedback, as well as what studies or portions of a study really spoke to you.

As a guy, I am a little impatient and cannot wait until next Monday to post the first in this new 30 day devotional series, so I am going to post that right away... But we will still have to wait for Tuesday for Kate's first devotional in this series. We hope you like learning about praising the Lord, because that is the theme of the first several devotionals that will be posted. See you next week!

Day One - Be Glad And Rejoice
Day Two - Bless The Lord
Day Three - Sevenfold Praise - Part One - Seven Ways To Praise God
Day Four - Five Things God Did For The Sinner
Day Five - Sevenfold Praise - Part Two - Seven Reasons To Praise God
Day Six - The Nine Cares Of A Shepherd
Day Seven - Fourfold Picture Of Water From The Rock
Day Eight - The Lord's Eight Provisions
Day Nine - The Eight Rocks In Scripture
Day Ten - Grace To Fret Not
Day Eleven - Paul's Final Exhortation To Timothy - Part One - The Preacher And His Preaching
Day Twelve - Seven Reasons God Wrote To Believers
Day Thirteen - Paul's Final Exhortation To Timothy - Part Two - The Preacher And His Living
Day Fourteen - Five Ways God Is With Us
Day Fifteen - God Gives Perfect Rest
Day Sixteen - Paul's Final Exhortation To Timothy - Part Three - The Preacher And His Graduation
Day Seventeen - Eight Ways The Lord Gets Personal
Day Eighteen - Paul's Final Exhortation To Timothy - Part Four - The Preacher And His Victory
Day Nineteen - I Am The Lord That...
Day Twenty - Eight Reasons David Loved The Lord
Day Twenty One - Five Peculiar People
Day Twenty Two - I Am Thine
Day Twenty Three - The Seven Comforters
Day Twenty Four - Is Your Name Written Down?
Day Twenty Five - Seven Points Of Prayer
Day Twenty Six - Eight Daily Blessings
Day Twenty Seven - The Three In One Blessing
Day Twenty Eight - Eight Things God Requires Of Man
Day Twenty Nine - Overcoming
Day Thirty - Gracious And Compassion Come In Threes
Day Thirty One - The Threes Found In Psalm 1
Day Thirty Two - Twelve People That God Blesses
Day Thirty Three - Jesus' I Am Statements - Part One
Day Thirty Four - The Armour Of God
Day Thirty Five - Jesus' I Am Statements - Part Two
Day Thirty Six - The Perfect Holy Spirit
Day Thirty Seven - The Seven Depictions Of Christ In Revelation
Day Thirty Eight - My Seven Most Used Passages
Day Thirty Nine - Ten Plagues
Day Forty - My Seven Favourite Passages
Day Forty One - Given By The Father To The Son
Day Forty Two - The Son Of God
Day Forty Three - Be Strong And Of A Good Courage
Day Forty Four - The Perfect Water Of Life
Day Forty Five - Laodicea, The Lukewarm Church
Day Forty Six - The Gift Of God
Day Forty Seven - God's Perfect Grace
Day Forty Eight - Precious And Growing Faith
Day Forty Nine - He Is Their Help
Day Fifty - Happy Is The Man
Day Fifty One - Forgiven
Day Fifty Two - Fear And Wisdom
Day Fifty Three - Behold: A Fivefold Picture - Part One
Day Fifty Four - Jesus' I Am Statements - Part Three
Day Fifty Five - Behold: A Fivefold Picture - Part Two
Day Fifty Six - Be Ye Holy
Day Fifty Seven - Turning Bitter Waters To Sweet
Day Fifty Eight - Five-Fold Trust
Day Fifty Nine - The God Of Second Chances
Day Sixty - Three Steps To Christ In A Two-fold Way

[Jerry]

Is this a forgotten Forum now, or do people that visit just sneak in and read without leaving comments?

I personally have been blessed by this series so far. Four of the first five dealt with reasons and ways to praise the Lord. The second week brought out some wonderful things about our Rock and our Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ. I really appreciate how about half of the series so far has been from the Psalms: 100 (X2), 103, 23, 37, 121. Lord willing, I plan on adding Psalm 34 to that a little later in the series.

This week so far we have had some devotional studies from 2 Timothy 4. I found those to be really encouraging studying out. They stir up the fire! Looking forward to part three on Friday: The Preacher And His Reward.

I was really dry spiritually the end of the first week, and it was amazing that the Lord quenched that thirst by giving me some new insight and fresh perspective on the theme of the water from the Rock. Then the end of that week was a hard-hitting lesson on grace to fret not.

Let us know if any of these devotionals have been a blessing to you.

[Sophie]

Hi Jerry, Its funny you should post this, 'cause I've been thinking about posting to let you know that these devotionals have been a blessing to me lately. I had been using a devotional book that I get at church called Days of Praise, published quarterly. I finished the one I had and hadn't picked up a new one yet, so I started reading yours and have continued almost every day since. I especially appreciated the ones on Psalms 103, 100, and 37(one of my favorites).

[Jerry]

Kate and I are seriously considering doing this devotional series for another 30 days. It has been such a blessing for each of us. Anyone here interested? If not, this Friday will end this series. Let us know what you think, and if you have any ideas to add to this series. Thank you.

[Sophie]

Jerry, I have been enjoying this series. It has been a blessing to me. I'm a little bit behind, on day 27 today. As far as continuing it goes, if that is the way the Lord is leading you, I'm sure He will bless it. Thank you for all the work you put into this. Its a great ministry.

[Jerry]

30 Days Series Continued!

Obviously if you have been following this series so far, you will have realized that we have gone over our intended thirty days for this series of Numbers In The Bible. It has been such a blessing to both Kate and I that we have decided to do another 30 days.

Are there any particular numbers/passages you are interested in digging deeper into? What study in this series has been the most blessing to you? How has it strengthened your walk with the Lord? Studying out these various passages and themes has drawn me closer to the Lord, brought conviction in some areas that I needed to work on, left some lasting impressions, and simply given me much food for thought and even more precious promises to cling to. I hope it has done the same for you. Please feel free to leave your input - as that is always an encouragement to both of us.

While some devotionals in this series have been long enough to call indepth studies - I still believe they are "devotionals", because they have certainly strengthened my devotion to the Lord, and have been a source of spiritual strength to others. The studies that have helped me the most have been the four dealing with Paul's Final Exhortation To Timothy, and now these two dealing with Jesus' I Am Statements - it is always a blessing to learn more about our Saviour and how He is working through His servants. Next to those, I would have to say Kate's devotionals on The Nine Cares Of A Shepherd, Bless The Lord, and Eight Ways The Lord Gets Personal are my favourites. It is hard to choose... The Fourfold Picture Of Water From The Rock and Grace To Fret Not both came out of personal experiences - a dry period and a struggle with fretting in my own life. Praise the Lord for the victory He gives!

So which devotionals were a blessing to you? Enquiring minds want to know. ;)