FAITH CAPSULE: Avoid negative confessions not to become wasted in life.

Numbers 14

Complaints of the Israelites set them on a painful journey that denied the promise of God over their life.
Numbers 14:1-4 records the complaints of the Israelites, “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”  
In all their complaint, the negative confession when they reacted to discouraging reports of the spies on the Promised Land caused them not to arrive at the Promised Land. (Numbers 13:26-29) 
Are you complaining about negative confession?
Any complaint will rebel before God.
Complaints and rebellion became the character of the Israelites before God.
As a believer, avoiding complaining before God is rooted in trusting and hoping in God. 
One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall experience the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 informs, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting on God, without doubt, is evidence of having hope in God.
Do you have faith to wait on God without complaint and not become a victim of derailment from the promise of God?
Avoid complaints before God is the discipline to wait for God that acts for those who wait on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 encourages all, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
A failure to wait on God will complain and become rebellious.
Pharaoh and his chariot could not stop Israelites from coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
The Red Sea failed to deny them to the Promised Land, while the Jericho wall could stop the advance journey to the Promised Land, but the negative complaint and confession stopped the Israelites from getting to the Promised Land.
Numbers 14:28 records the response of God to the complaint of the Israelites: “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.” 
Avoid negative confessions not to become wasted in life.
God hears all at all times. 
Stop complaining!

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not be a vessel of complaining before God.