Bible Verse of the Day Thursday November 3rd, 2022

Numbers 1:1-3 The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army.

As did on occasion, Moses met with God in the tent of meeting. In this instance, on the first day of the second month, two years after they had escaped slavery in Egypt, God commanded Moses to take a census of all the men in the Camp who could serve in the Army of God. There would be many battles in taking the land promised by God to Abraham and his descendants.

We will have to fight many spiritual battles in this life. Unfortunately, there looms a possibility that we could fail in some of these battles if we underestimate or even overestimate our spiritual potency or the resources that God has provided to us. Some blame sin when we encounter evil spirits that we need cast out of our being. While others pay no mind to the realm of the spiritual and look past the fact that the Bible tells us that all our battles are against evil spiritual forces. To live a life surrendered to Christ Jesus, we must find the balance between the two,

There were times when Jesus healed certain people by casting out evil spirits; other times, He did not reference demonic or evil powers at all. Yet, we are all born with a sinful nature (Romans 3:23; Romans 3:10) and a predisposition to commit sin and breach the truth of God’s Word. We will struggle with this conflict the entire time we are on this earth. Therefore, we must have an insight into this reality, or we will live a life of defeat (Romans 7:23). Satan will attempt to take Christians as spiritual prisoners by removing the love of God’s Word and replacing it with sophisticated frills and opulence. There will always be a rampant and intense war in our spiritual being as to whether we allow the truth of God’s Word to govern our convictions or the “Law of our mind” to control our actions (2 Timothy 2:15).

Gilbert Morris once wrote: “It is worth bearing in mind that the great saints through the ages do not commonly say, ‘How good I am!’ Rather, they are apt to bewail their sinfulness.”