February 28

Numbers 4:34 – 6:27

• What does the numbering of the people teach about individuals and about the group?
• Why does the Lord require that those with infectious diseases be quarantined outside of the camp? How does this regulation affect families?
• What does adding the 1/5^th to the restitution teach about sin?
• What purpose does the Nazirite vow serve?
• Why does the Lord require those taking the Nazirite vow to do certain outward things?
• What does this blessing teach Israel about God? About the Levites/priests?

PRAYER

Ask the Lord to make you more aware of when you accuse or judge someone falsely based upon feelings alone and to help you live a life free of suspicion toward others.

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

February 27

Numbers 3:1 – 4:33

• What were Aaron’s descendants given responsibility for? What does this tell you about God and His service?
• Why are only Aaron’s descendants allowed to see the holy things within the Holy and the Most Holy Place?
• What are they to do with the holy things as the camp prepares to move?
• What will happen to the Kohathites if they violate God’s instructions regarding the holy things?
• To whom does God make responsible for the holy things? What does this tell you about God?

PRAYER

Pray for your church staff. Pray that the call of God would weigh heavy upon them and that they would depend upon God instead of their own gifts and ingenuity to fulfill His charge through them.

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

February 18

Leviticus 8:1 – 10:20

• Why does God require the entire congregation to witness Aaron and his son’s inauguration as priests?
• What do they do that demonstrates their transfer of sins onto the sacrificial or substitute offering? What does this symbolize?
• What does Moses’ placing the blood on their right ear, thumb or their right hand, and big toe of their right foot demonstrate?
• Chapter nine covers the formal inauguration of the entire sacrificial system in Israel with Aaron offering his first offering. Before, he molded a golden bull for people to offer sacrifices to but now he offers a bull on the altar to God. What does God promise will happen once the offering is made?
• God instituted the sacrificial system (the shedding of the blood of the innocent to cover the sins of the guilty) so that His chose people might, in spite of their great sinfulness, have access to God. Read Romans 5:1-2. What does God promise regarding access to New Testament believers?

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

• What happens to the sacrifice once Moses and Aaron exit the Tent of Meeting ? What do the people learn about God through this process?
• What does the death of Aaron’s son teach Israel about God?
• Leviticus 10:8-11 is the only time in Leviticus where God speaks directly to Aaron. What instruction does God give Aaron?
• Read Hosea 4:11; Proverbs 10:1; 23:28-35. Summarize what these verses teach about alcohol.

PRAYER

Thank the Lord for the access we have to Him through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 20

Genesis 19:1 – 21:34

• How had living in Sodom affected Lot’s decision making?
• What real attitudes do the citizens manifest toward Lot after the angel’s appearance? What does this tell you about Lot’s real influence in the city of Sodom?
• How had being raised in Sodom affected Lot’s daughters?
• Read Luke 17:28-30. How does Jesus use the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in His teachings?
• Read 2 Peter 2:7. How is Lot described?
• Read Ezekiel 16:49-50. Describe the sin of Sodom. How would you compare Sodom’s sin with that of the United States?
• What prevents believers from becoming the salt and light that God has called them to be in a lost and needy world?
• What does God do to protect Sarah? What does this tell you about God?
• How does the arrival of Isaac affect Abraham’s household?
• How does Hagar’s second flight differ from her first one thirteen years earlier?
• How does Sarah’s experience with God differ from that of Hagar’s?
• Read Joshua 24:2-3. Why is Abraham’s confession in Gen. 21:33 so significant?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 17

Job 40:1 – 42:17

• How does Job’s first response to the Lord differ from his second response (40:3-5; 42:1-6)?
• What does God say in His second response to Job that finally brings Job to such brokenness?
• From where does God speak to Job (38:1; 40:6)?
• What does the behemoth (think hippopotamus) teach Job about his limitations and God’s omnipotence?
• What does the leviathan (think large crocodile) teach Job about his limitations and God’s omnipotence?
• What has suffering taught Job about himself during this story?
• What has suffering taught Job about God during this story?
• What have you learned about yourself, God, and suffering through Job’s story?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 16

Job 38:1 – 39:30

• About which areas of creation does God question Job?
• What do these questions that God asks Job tell you about God and His relationship with creation?
• List the twelve animals God uses to exhibit His creative genius and providential care.
• What does God’s creation of the animals mentioned teach Job about God?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 15

Job 35:1 – 37:24

• As you read Elihu’s response to Job, make note of how he describes God’s justice, sovereignty, and benevolence in his dealings with man and all of creation. It may be helpful to make three columns as a visual demonstration.
• What are God’s standards in judging people?
• How do the prayers of the proud (and wicked) differ from those of the humble (and the righteous)?
• How can man, who cannot understand the workings of nature, dare to think that he/we can possibly understand God and His ways?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 13

Job 30:1 – 31:40

• How do those around Job respond to his physical suffering?
• What does this tell you about those who suffer and those who don’t?
• How had Job responded to those who were suffering?
• What does suffering strip a person of?
• What is the root of Job’s righteous dealing with others? (31:15)
• How has Job used his position of influence with others to advocate for the needy?
• How does Job view his wealth?
• How does Job define “unfaithfulness to God”?
• As Job closes his remarks what is wrong with how he approaches God?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 12

Job 27:1 – 29:25

• What will happen to Job’s enemies on the Day of Judgment?
• To what extent will man go to mine gold and silver? (How much more man needs the wisdom of God!)
• For several chapters now Job has continued to protest his integrity. Why does he continue returning to this theme of personal integrity?
• Why or why not should a person’s integrity be the foundation of their confidence before God?
• What illustrations does Job use to demonstrate man’s inability to find true wisdom?
• What had physical suffering cost Job?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 11

Job 22:1 – 26:14

• What does Eliphaz imply about Job’s treatment of others?
• What does Eliphaz recommend Job do to have God’s favor restored?
• Why is Job so frustrated with Eliphaz’s counsel?
• What is the one thing that Job desires from God?
• How does Job describe the wicked and how does he use this to defend himself?
• What does Bildad say about the righteous and how does this relate to Job’s situation?
• How does Job respond to Bildad?
• Which attribute of God does Job describe?
• Why does meditating on the power of God embolden faith in God?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com