FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting God without hope to wait on Him is not complete to deliver.
Numbers 14
Engaging in the complaint is not acceptable before God.
The Israelites made themselves a victim of complaining before God as they suffered the consequences of complaining.
The Israelites were coming out of the bondage of Egypt by the hand of God but repeatedly complained before God.
The Israelites trusted the hand of God as they engaged in the journey but could not hope for God to deliver through as they repeatedly complained.
Jerimiah 17:7 buttresses the need to trust and hope, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is the Lord.”
Do you enter a place of worshiping God and come out of worshiping God with a negative confession?
Trusting God without hope to wait on Him is not complete to deliver.
The Israelites entered a journey of deliverance but failed to have hope in God, giving themselves to complaining.
The children of Israel complained directly and indirectly against God.
Complaining in a journey shall experience stagnation to become terminated when trust and hope are not in place.
God responds to the complaint of the Israelites, “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 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.” (Numbers 14:27-28)
The complaint of the Israelites was rooted in negative confession.
God heard the complaints of the Israelites.
The Israelites confessed death when there was a need to be conscious of the choice of words to avoid negative confession.
The word of God in the Bible warns against what tongues confess, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”(Proverb 18:21)
Are you careful with the word that comes out of your mouth?
In life, allow trust and hope as your constraining means of not complaining against God.
God is the only perfect creator.
He is God-worthy to be praised.
How long will you doubt and not truly trust and hope in God to make it through while waiting on God?
As a result of a lack of trust and hope, the Israelites suffered the consequences of death in the wilderness.
Also, the journey of eleven days lasted for forty years.
The Israelites knew God through miracles that brought them out of bondage but failed the testimony to see them through the journey to the Promised Land.
Prayer for today: Ask God for His mercy to answer over you not to become a victim of complaining.