Thoughts From The Word - Book 3

By Bob Morton

One month of devotionals taken from every day life. Take time to connect with God with these thoughts. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Turtle Publishing
• Release date: Jun 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386783756

Bob Morton

Bob Morton is a computer technician and a teacher of computers. He has studied the Bible for many of those years. He wrote a series of devotionals on a Blog called Daily Devotions from Bob.  Father of 7 (yours, mine and ours) and a grandfather to 3.  

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Letting People Get the Best of You

And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord! Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there? Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking. Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the door of the Tent of meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they saw the glory of the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink. And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders.

Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock? And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water