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TUESDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2023

TEXT: Numbers 11:21-35

21: But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’

22: Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”

23: The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”

24: So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent.

25: Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.

26: However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.

27: A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

28: Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ aide since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

29: But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”

30: Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.

31: Now a wind went out from the Lord and drove quail in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits deep all around the camp, as far as a day’s walk in any direction.

32: All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp.

33: But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.

34: Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

35: From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.

(New International Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: IS GOD’S ARM TOO SHORT?

God demonstrated His Lordship in today's reading by taking the Spirit that was on Moses and putting it on the seventy elders. Notice how Moses was stunned by the size of the crowd in the wilderness.

It should be noted that even though Eldad and Medad were not among the seventy around the tent, the anointing from Moses' spirit located them in the camp.

While Joshua saw this development differently, Moses wished that the entire assembly was made up of prophets with God's Spirit on them.

QUESTION: What have you been requesting from God for so long that has made you resort to complaining and causing trouble?

PRAYER: Oh Lord, have mercy upon my spirit of ingratitude and teach me to know that Your arm is not too short to meet my needs. Amen.