FAITH CAPSULE: The Israelites did not give to the word of God. 

Numbers 13

Listen attentively to no man but to the word of God.
Listening to the word of God is the key to understanding and doing according to the word of God.
Only listen attentively to the word of God. 
A failure to listen and gain direction or to look forward in the promise of God will dislodge and displace one from the destination in the promise of God.
Trouble in life might be too hard, but God can resettle one for the better. 
Listen attentively to the word of God, wait on the word of God, be renewed in strength, and not faint. 
God made the heavens and earth by His great power that cannot fail. 
Will you listen to wait on His word?
For over four hundred years, the Israelites got displaced into bondage. 
It was like no way out for the Israelites.
God spoke through Moses, “…I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” (Exodus 3:17)
With attention to the word of God, failure is an impossibility.
God has spoken, still speaking, and what He says is a done deal. 
Are you listening to His word? 
The Israelites could not listen attentively.
Since the pollution of man in the Garden of Eden by the deceiver, man has continued not to listen attentively to God. 
The Israelites did not give to the word of God.
They failed to move and possess all the promised word of God. 
Numbers 13:1-3 records, “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a leader among them.’” 
Moses played his role in relating the word of God to the Israelites.
The Israelites needed to spy out the land which God was giving them.  
In life, listening will deliver results in the promise of God. 
The spies saw the land and returned with a negative report. 
Sharing any negative report against positive ones is making God a liar, the evidence of a lack of faith by the spy. 
The spy reported a negative confession, “…The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are great men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we are like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we are in their sight.’” (Numbers 13:32-33) 
The negative report delivered by the spy to the Israelites provoked a rebellious response that caused many not to arrive at the promised land.
Listen attentively to no one but to God in His word. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to listen attentively to His word for your life.