Quotes About Purpose

They camped at the LORDís command, and they set out at the LORDís command; they carried out the LORDís charge according to His command through Moses.

They set out this first time according to the LORDís command through Moses.

“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things, for it was not my own doing:

Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balakís princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”

That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

And he said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to richly reward you?”

I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”

Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?

Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

At the LORDís command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:

The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”

“You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north

“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.