Faithful Obedience in Small Things: A Devotional on Numbers 36 for Young Adults

🤝 Why Small Acts of Obedience Matter

7-Step QT

  1. 🙏 Quiet Time
  2. 📅 June 11, 2025
  3. ✝️ Numbers 36:1-13
  4. 📖 The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses (v. 10).
  5. 📝 This is the final chapter of the book of Numbers. Throughout the book, we’ve seen the Israelites struggle with disobedience, fear, and rebellion. But here, at the very end, we see something different—a quiet, faithful act of obedience. It’s not flashy or dramatic. But it’s faithful.
  6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?
  7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

7-Step QT Notes

✝️ Scripture: Numbers 36:1–13

📖 Key Verse

“The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.” (v.10)

📝 What’s Happening Here?

This is the final chapter of the book of Numbers. Throughout the book, we’ve seen the Israelites struggle with disobedience, fear, and rebellion. But here, at the very end, we see something different—a quiet, faithful act of obedience.

The daughters of Zelophehad had previously asked for their father’s inheritance since he had no sons (Numbers 27). God honored their request. Now, in chapter 36, they’re told to marry within their tribe to preserve the inheritance—and they obey.

It’s not flashy. It’s not dramatic. But it’s faithful.

💡 Main Message for Young Adults

1. Obedience in the Small Things Matters

  • These women didn’t lead armies or perform miracles. They simply trusted God and followed through.
  • In a world that celebrates big wins and viral moments, God honors quiet faithfulness.

2. Your Choices Shape the Future

  • Their obedience wasn’t just personal—it protected their tribe’s future.
  • Likewise, your decisions today—about integrity, relationships, faith—shape your future and influence others.

3. God Sees and Honors Your Faith

  • These daughters are named multiple times in Scripture. Why? Because God sees and remembers obedience, even when it feels small or unnoticed.

💬 What Is God Saying to You Today?

Ask yourself:

  • Am I being faithful in the small things God has asked of me?
  • Do I trust God enough to obey, even when it’s not convenient or popular?
  • How might my quiet obedience impact others around me?

Scriptures

📖 1 The heads of the fathers’ houses of the clan of the people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel. 2 They said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 3 But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. 4 And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.” 

5 And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the people of Joseph is right. 6 This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whom they think best, only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father. 7 The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the people of Israel shall hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. 9 So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.’ ” 

10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses, 11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers. 12 They were married into the clans of the people of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan. 

13 These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho (Num 36:1-13, ESV).

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