Donuts and Devos

At Christmas, we hear about Gabriel and the angels and the shepherds, Joseph and Mary… and then we hear about the wise men. But who are the wise men? They don't come to the manger where Jesus was born. They traveled from a long distance later, following a star, and looking for the king of the Jews. Looking for Jesus. As with gladness men of oldDid the guiding star behold;As with joy they hailed its light,Leading onward, beaming bright;So, most gracious Lord, may weEvermore be led by Thee.As with joyful steps they sped,Savior, to Thy lowly bed,There to bend the knee beforeThee, whom heav'n and earth adore;So may we with willing feetEver seek Thy mercy seat.As they offered gifts most rareAt Thy cradle, rude and bare,So may we with holy joy,Pure and free from sin's alloy,All our costliest treasures bring,Christ, to Thee, our heav'nly King.Verses 1, 2, and 3 of As With Gladness Men of Old Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Imagine you're a shepherd, and you're going out to tend to your flock, just like you do every night. You go about your shepherding duties, keep track of the sheep, making sure they're safe. And then out of nowehere, a great light fills the sky and all around you, it's shining bright! And an angel shows up!! Would you be afraid? It came upon a midnight clear,that glorious song of old,from angels bending near the earthto touch their harps of gold:"Peace on the earth, goodwill to all,from heav'n's all-gracious king."The world in solemn stillness layto hear the angels sing.All you, beneath your heavy load,by care and guilt bent low,who toil along a dreary waywith painful steps and slow:look up, for golden is the hour,come swiftly on the wing,the Prince was born to bring you peace;of Him the angels sing.For lo, the days have come to passby prophets seen of old,when down into the circling yearscame Christ as was foretold.His word of peace shall to the earthGod's ancient promise bring,and all who take this gift will hearthe song the angels sing.Verses 1, 3, and 4 of It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Gabriel visited Mary. Joseph married Mary! But who, exactly, is Mary? What made her so special? Absolutely nothing - except that God chose her to be the mother of His Son. Mary did not doubt God but believed what the angel Gabriel told her. She would give birth to the promised Messiah, the Savior the world had been waiting for. Once in royal David's cityStood a lowly cattle shed,Where a mother laid her babyIn a manger for His bed:Mary was that mother mild,Jesus Christ her little child.He came down to earth from heaven,Who is God and Lord of all,And His shelter was a stable,And His cradle was a stall;With the poor and mean and lowlyLived on earth our Savior holy.For He is our childhood's pattern,Day by day like us He grew;He was little, weak, and helpless,Tears and smiles like us He knew;And He feels for all our sadness,And He shares in all our gladness.And our eyes at last shall see Him,Through His own redeeming love;For that child so dear and gentle,Is our Lord in heav'n above;And He leads His children onTo the place where He is gone.Verses 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Once In Royal David's City Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

We don't know too much about the earthly father of Jesus. He was a carpenter. He was a righteous and just man. He was a provider and guardian for his family. Joseph did what God wanted him to do, and became the adopted father of the Son of God. O little town of BethlehemHow still we see thee lie!Above thy deep and dreamless sleepThe silent stars go by.Yet in the dark street shinethThe everlasting LightThe hopes and fears of all the yearsAre met in thee tonight.O holy Child of BethlehemDescend to us, we prayCast out our sin and enter inBe born in us todayWe hear the Christmas angelsThe great glad tidings tellOh, come to us, abide with usOur Lord Immanuel!Verses 1 and 4: O Little Town of Bethlehem Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

"Who is Gabriel?" is the question we explore in this devotion of our Advent series. This angel who appeared to Zechariah, and then to Mary had a message for each of them that came directly from God. The song we sing is called "The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came." The lyrics are below to follow and sing along with us! The angel Gabriel from heaven came,With wings as drifted snow, with eyes as flame:"All hail to thee, O lowly maiden Mary,most highly favored lady." Gloria!"For know a blessed mother thou shalt be,All generations laud and honor thee;Thy son shall be Emmanuel, by seers foretold,most highly favored lady." Gloria!Of her, Emmanuel, the Christ was bornIn Bethlehem all on a Christmas morn,And Christian folk throughout the world will ever say:"Most highly favored lady." Gloria!Verses 1, 2, and 4: The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Our Advent devotional series for kids and families is focusing on the "Who's Who?" of the Nativity story. Our first important person that comes into the Advent of Jesus Christ is John the Baptist. Who was he before all the locusts, baptizing, and beheading? What was his purpose? How can he help us prepare for Jesus' coming? We tackle those questions and more in our first advent devotion. "On Jordan's banks the baptist's cryannounces that the Lord is nigh.Awake, and hearken, for he brings,glad tidings of the King of kings."Then cleansed be every life from sin,Make straight the way for God within,and let us all our hearts preparefor Christ to come and enter there.All praise eternal Son to TheeWhose advent sets Thy people free,Whom with the Father we adoreand Holy Spirit evermore,"Verses 1, 2, and 5: On Jordan's banks The Baptist's Cry Free Coloring Page for Kids Advent Devotion John the Baptist Ep. 092   Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Happy Thanksgiving! It's that time of year that we focus on God's blessings and gifts to us, His children. Though we are undeserving, our Lord gives us so much to be thankful for. In this SPECIAL Thanksgiving Day devotion, we read through three Bible selections that help us focus on what we are thankful for and how we can show our gratitude to others and most importantly, our Lord and Savior. "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1 Thessolonians 5:18 Support The Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites made a covenant with the Gibeonites, making an alliance with them without counseling God. The Gibeonites tricked Joshua to protect themselves. Now, the 5 Amorite kings joined together to attack Gibeon. Once again, the Lord fights for Israel and wins the battle with hailstone and a unique natural event that has never happened again! "Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, at the valley of Aijalon." Joshua 10:12b Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The people of Israel renewed their covenant with God. They were reminded of the law God had given to Moses, and were once again coming before God as His people, protected and loved under the covenant. We, too, have been washed clean and made new again from our sin through Jesus. WIth his death on the cross, he cleansed us from our sin and made us white as snow in God's eyes. "There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all of Israel.” Joshua 8:35 Support The Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

It's "Take 2" for the Israelites at the city of Ai. Thanks to Achan's sin, their first attempt at taking over the city failed horribly. But now God's anger had cooled, and He once again tells Joshua to gather his men - the city of Ai would be theirs. A very creative and strategic battle plan by God brought Ai to the mercy of the Israelites, and they were victorious! "And you shall do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king."Joshua 8:2a Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Achan broke the covenant that God had with the Israelites, and he was punished to the full extent of the Law. The Cross shows us both how serious God is about sin, and also how much He loves us to deliver us from sin. God poured out all his wrath for all sin on Jesus, His Son, our Savior. Jesus took our sins and died, the just punishment for sin.  That's how serious God is about sin. "Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today."Joshua 7:25 Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Even though it was just one man that broke covenant with God and stole the devoted things at Jericho, his actions spread to cover all of the Israelites. They suffered from Achan's decision to steal and then hide the devoted things, and God's anger burned over all of Israel. The sin of one man led to the defeat of the entire nation at the city of Ai! "I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you."Joshua 7:12b Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Israel Defeated At Ai Coloring Page Ep. 086 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Walls just come tumbling down? At Jericho, that's exactly what happened. The Israelites marched around the city walls as God instructed for seven days. On the seventh day, the trumpets were blown, the people shouted, and God delivered Jericho to His people! "Shout for the Lord has given you the city."Joshua 6:16 Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. The Fall of Jericho Coloring Page Ep. 085 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites of crossed the Jordan River by God's miraculous hand. He parted the water once again for them! And to mark such a momentous event, Joshua commands 12 men to create a memorial from stones by the river to remind them of their history. "On that day, the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel..."Joshua 4:14a Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The land the Israelities were about to take as their own had seven nations already residing in the land. Who were these people? Where did they come from? Why was God giving their land to the Israelites? We answer these questions on our devotion. "And Joshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites."Joshua 3:10 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites were finally on the brink of passing into their Promised Land, but God had another miracle in store for them. The Jordan River lay before them, yet God once again demonstrated His power by holding the waters back to allow the people to pass over on dry ground.  “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.”Joshua 3:7 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Spies, infiltration, and intrigue is what the story of Rahab is all about! Two Israelite spies find refuge and safety within the walls of Rahab in the city of Jericho. Rahab recognizes and declares that the Israelite's God is the true God, and asks for her family's safety in exchange for hiding the spies. “Our life for yours, even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land, we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”Joshua 2:14 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Joshua is now leading the Israelites into the Promised Land, being chosen by God to replace Moses. Joshua prepares the people to move into Canaan and commands them to be prepared, to be strong, and courageous! " The Lord your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land."Joshua 1:13 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Joshua was the new leader of the Israelite's after Moses' death. He would be the man to lead them into the Promised Land and face the unknowns of such a task. Joshua would speak the Law to them, the same words that Moses spoke to them. God made sure that Joshua knew that he would not be doing this alone. Joshua would need to be strong and courageous and remember God's words: "Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”Joshua 1:9 Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. God Commissions Joshua Coloring Page Ep. 079 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Deuteronomy means, “second law”. It's a book that reviews all the laws God has given them. These laws were set in place to help the people and strengthen their faith in God. The people were going to come up against many things in Canaan that would tempt them to turn away from God. So as Moses prepares to say goodbye to the people, he reminds them of God's love and faithfulness. “I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me.”Deuteronomy 32:39 Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

It was almost time for the Israelites to enter the Promised Land. But before they do, Moses spends some time reminding the people of God's covenant with them that was made on Mount Sinai. Among the laws and commandments that God desired His people to follow and obey, there wasone commandment that stood above the rest of them:  “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”Deuteronomy 6:5 Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. The Greatest Commandment Coloring Page Ep. 077 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Moses was old and nearing the time of his death. He wasn't going to be allowed to go into the land that God was going to give them. He had rebelled against God's Word; he didn't show the people that God's Word was holy and absolute! So God punished him. Moses could see the land, but would not be living it. A leader was necessary to guide the people into the land. God chose Joshua to become Moses' successor. “At his word they shall go out and at his word they shall come in.”Numbers 27:21b Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience! Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Remember Balaam's talking donkey? It served it's purpose to show Balaam his foolishness and open his eyes to his sin of greed and lust for wealth. He was finally ready to hear God's Word, not ignore it. While Balak, prince of Moab, wanted Balaam to curse the Israelites, God had no intention of having His people be cursed. God had been leading his people this whole time, and this was the land He had promised them and He was going to fulfill His promise. Balaam's words confirmed this in his four oracles that we read in Numbers 23-24.  "I see him but not now. I behold him, but not near."Numbers 24:17a Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites are moving through the land, taking over tribes, and instilling fear into the king of Moab and Midian. They approach Balaam, a self-proclaimed soothsayer, and ask him to curse the Israelites so they might defeat them. God has other plans for Balaam, however, and uses Balaam's donkey to teach him a very important lesson. "Go to your own land, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you."Numbers 22:13 Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites have no water and complain.God gives them water from a rock, again!Moses gets in trouble!All the people get in trouble, again!Snakes and snake bitesSorrow and repentance!A bronze serpent put on a cross.And everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live! And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”Numbers 21:8 Free Coloring Page for Kids Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Water From A Rock (Again) & A Bronze Serpent Coloring Page Ep. 073   Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The unbelieving Israelites who complained against God ended up getting what they asked for. “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!” God wanted the Israelites to turn to Him with their fears and uncertainties and place their faith in Him. Instead the eople looked around them and decided that the situation was too difficult and scary to face. The consequence of their unbelief would be that instead of living in the Promised Land, they would wander in the wilderness for 40 years - a year for each of the 40 days that they spied out the land to begin with. "And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness..."Numbers 14:33 Free Coloring Page Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Forty Years in the Wilderness Coloring Page Ep. 072   Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Despite God's continuous faithfulness and miracles that He did for the Israelites, they quickly turned away from Him at the first sign of trouble. The people were scared of the report of strong men and fortified cities that inhabited the promised land. They didn't want to listen to Joshua and Caleb, but wanted to turn back to Egypt.  God didn't know what else to do with this rebellious people but punish them, take their inheritance away from them, and give it to someone else. "The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty..."Numbers 14:18 Free Coloring Page Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

God had brought the people out of Egypt, freed them from slavery, and brought them through the wilderness to the edge of Canaan. And He gave Moses and very specific command. "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel."Numbers 13:2 This was the land that God had promised over and over to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob and  to the whole people of Israel. the land which they would make their home. God was going to give it to them. But first, they needed to know what they were dealing with, which is why one man from every tribe was chosen to spy out the land. This command from God was important so the people would be properly prepared for what they were about to enter upon. Free Coloring Page Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. The Twelve Spies Coloring Page Ep. 070   Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

We are back after the Christmas holidays and are continuing our journey with the Israelites after they escaped from Egypt by the power of God. God's people have been camping out at Mt. Sinai. Moses has been receiving God's Laws and ways for the people to live in their daily lives—the 10 commandments and the Levitical Law. And now they are finally getting ready to leave. But not before God speaks a blessing upon them. "So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them."Numbers 6:27 Free Coloring Page Kids can memorize their memory verse while listening to the podcast with our free coloring page originally designed by Jamie Truwe at Pure Joy Creative. God's Blessing To His People Coloring Page Ep. 069 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The book of Leviticus is God's Words to Moses to teach the priests and people how they should live. It tells them how to offer sacrifices to the Lord, and talks about the various festivals that God wanted them to follow during the year. These were the laws which the people followed, and we refer to them as the Levitical laws. In this devotion, we are going to categorize these laws into three groups: civil law, ceremonial law, and moral law. "...you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses."Leviticus 10:11 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Sabbath was the seventh day of the week that the Lord wanted His people to observe and set aside as a day of rest. God knew that all creation would need rest, and so He made it a commandment: Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. The Israelites were commanded to set this time aside to rest and worship God. And we, too, continue to observe and keep the 3rd commandment by setting time aside to worship, attend church, reading God's Word, pray, and have devotions. "You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day."Exodus 35:3 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites went from looking up to the Lord on Mount Sinai, to looking down on themselves on the earth. Wanting a new leader, they gave Aaron—Moses' own brother—all their golden earrings and made a "god" for themselves. And the LORD said to Moses,  “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves."Exodus 32:7 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites went from looking up to the Lord on Mount Sinai, to looking down on themselves on the earth. Wanting a new leader, they gave Aaron—Moses' own brother—all their golden earrings and made a "god" for themselves. And the LORD said to Moses,  “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves."Exodus 32:7 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

With the Ten Commandments, God's righteousness is revealed—that He is holy, perfect, the only God in whom we are to fear, love, and trust above all things.  As these commandments show God's righteousness, they show God's people what being His people looks like.  He tells us what to do and what not to do as His people. "I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery."Exodus 20:1 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

With the Ten Commandments, God's righteousness is revealed—that He is holy, perfect, the only God in whom we are to fear, love, and trust above all things.  As these commandments show God's righteousness, they show God's people what being His people looks like.  He tells us what to do and what not to do as His people. "I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery."Exodus 20:1 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites have reached Mount Sinai. Because of the people's sinfulness, they aren't able to stand directly before God. But God uses Moses to speak to His people and share His Word with them. "...you shall be my treasured possession among all people's..."Exodus 19:5 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites have reached Mount Sinai. Because of the people's sinfulness, they aren't able to stand directly before God. But God uses Moses to speak to His people and share His Word with them. "...you shall be my treasured possession among all people's..."Exodus 19:5 Get your free coloring page for this devotion here! Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Moses was going to wear himself out with the burden of solving all of Israel's problems on his own. Taking his father-in-law Jethro's advice, Moses appoints trusted men as leaders and becomes the people's representative before God. "You shall represent the people before God and shall bring their cases to God."Exodus 18:19b Support Our Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

Moses was going to wear himself out with the burden of solving all of Israel's problems on his own. Taking his father-in-law Jethro's advice, Moses appoints trusted men as leaders and becomes the people's representative before God. "You shall represent the people before God and shall bring their cases to God."Exodus 18:19b Support Our Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

What, now they're complaining about being thirsty? Here's a tip: ask God for water! He will provide! But instead, the Israelites grumbled and quarreled against Moses and God, bemoaning their terrible "fate" and accusing God of abandoning them. Oh ye of little faith! God does provide, despite the unbelief of His people and brings forth water from a rock. He also gives us Jesus, the Bread and Water of Life. And Moses said, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?"Exodus 17:2 Support Our Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

What, now they're complaining about being thirsty? Here's a tip: ask God for water! He will provide! But instead, the Israelites grumbled and quarreled against Moses and God, bemoaning their terrible "fate" and accusing God of abandoning them. Oh ye of little faith! God does provide, despite the unbelief of His people and brings forth water from a rock. He also gives us Jesus, the Bread and Water of Life. And Moses said, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?"Exodus 17:2 Support Our Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

It had been over a month since the Exodus and the crossing of the Red Sea.  Moses is leading the people to Mt. Sinai through the wilderness. There's not much food in the wilderness, especially for the large number of Israelites! They begin grumbling and complaining, instead of asking God for food. But the Lord provided for them. The Lord gives His people bread in the morning. It came down from heaven and covered the land like a blanket of frost - manna from heaven! Come near before the Lord, for He has heard your grumbling.Exodus 16:9 Support Our Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

It had been over a month since the Exodus and the crossing of the Red Sea.  Moses is leading the people to Mt. Sinai through the wilderness. There's not much food in the wilderness, especially for the large number of Israelites! They begin grumbling and complaining, instead of asking God for food. But the Lord provided for them. The Lord gives His people bread in the morning. It came down from heaven and covered the land like a blanket of frost - manna from heaven! Come near before the Lord, for He has heard your grumbling.Exodus 16:9 Support Our Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The crossing of the Red Sea was a triumphant victory of God against Pharaoh and the Egyptians. God defeated them, saving His people. So it was only natural for Moses to be inspired to sing out in praise and worship to God, declaring God's victory! This is the first song recorded in the Bible.  It's a divinely inspired song; Moses didn't write it down and then sing it. It came to him as he sang. "The Lord God is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation."Exodus 15:2a Songs Most of the songs that Christians sing now continue to proclaim the great things God has done, especially Christ Jesus and His saving work. Songs and hymns teach the Christian faith and encourage us to remain in Christ.  They give us words to sing together in praise for what God has done for us through His Son. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The crossing of the Red Sea was a triumphant victory of God against Pharaoh and the Egyptians. God defeated them, saving His people. So it was only natural for Moses to be inspired to sing out in praise and worship to God, declaring God's victory! This is the first song recorded in the Bible.  It's a divinely inspired song; Moses didn't write it down and then sing it. It came to him as he sang. "The Lord God is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation."Exodus 15:2a Songs Most of the songs that Christians sing now continue to proclaim the great things God has done, especially Christ Jesus and His saving work. Songs and hymns teach the Christian faith and encourage us to remain in Christ.  They give us words to sing together in praise for what God has done for us through His Son. Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

God saved His people as they fleed Egypt. He showed them His salvation while they stood by and watched. Israel was powerless to save themselves – they faced certain slavery or death at the hands of the Egyptian army as they were beside the Red Sea. But salvation didn't come to them by anything THEY did – only God had the power to save them. And He did! Thus the Lord saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians...Exodus 14:30 Support The Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

God saved His people as they fleed Egypt. He showed them His salvation while they stood by and watched. Israel was powerless to save themselves – they faced certain slavery or death at the hands of the Egyptian army as they were beside the Red Sea. But salvation didn't come to them by anything THEY did – only God had the power to save them. And He did! Thus the Lord saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians...Exodus 14:30 Support The Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt and to the land that He had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This is where they would live with God in peace and rest and safety. And they wouldn't be slaves anymore, but people of God's household. But it wasn't an easy journey. God led them into the wilderness and guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. But once again, Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he chases after his lost slave force. The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.Exodus 13:22 God never left His people. These pillars were always there for the people to see, and to know that the Lord was with them. Support The Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt and to the land that He had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This is where they would live with God in peace and rest and safety. And they wouldn't be slaves anymore, but people of God's household. But it wasn't an easy journey. God led them into the wilderness and guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. But once again, Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he chases after his lost slave force. The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.Exodus 13:22 God never left His people. These pillars were always there for the people to see, and to know that the Lord was with them. Support The Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites were trapped in Egypt for 430 years. Most of that time was spent in bondage, in slavery. After the final plague, Pharaoh finally let them go. The Israelites, foreign people, and even some Egyptians left Egypt in a mass exodus and God saved them all. And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked.Exodus 12:36 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!

The Israelites were trapped in Egypt for 430 years. Most of that time was spent in bondage, in slavery. After the final plague, Pharaoh finally let them go. The Israelites, foreign people, and even some Egyptians left Egypt in a mass exodus and God saved them all. And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked.Exodus 12:36 Support the Show Please prayerfully consider supporting our ministry at https://buymeacoffee.com/donutsanddevos. Your donations will help keep our show running and improving the valuable content we can provide our wonderful audience!