FAITH CAPSULE: Meditate on His testimonies to provoke your faith in Him.
Describing the testimony of God.
Testimony is evidence in support of the wonders of God.
Testimony is an open declaration or profession of faith.
The testimonies of God will transport a believer to a ground of transformation.
All that the children of Israel needed for their transportation through their wilderness journey was the testimonies of God to keep them from complaining against God.
The children of Israel were to travel through the wilderness to their Promised Land for eleven days, but the journey went on for forty years.
Are you experiencing a time of wandering where you are to be a wonder to your world?
A failure to keep the testimony of God is evidence of not remembering God for He has done and what He can do.
The generation that came out of Egypt did not only journey in the wilderness but wandered around until the wilderness passed them to death.
The Israelites could not step on the Promised Land.
The children of Israel did not just become wanders in the wilderness by accident.
The acts of complaints against God trapped them in the wilderness.
The act of complaining is evidence of not keeping God’s testimony.
Due to their never-ending complaining against what God was doing in their life, God responds in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”
God promised to take them to the Promised Land.
God promised to take them to the Promised Land.
While the Israelites were in Egypt, God showed them great and mighty signs, but they could not meditate to keep His testimony.
Why not constantly meditate on His testimonies?
The Psalmist identifies the blessing of God as keeping the testimonies of God. Psalm 119:2 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
Keeping His testimonies is setting self-up to serve God and not rebel by complaining.
Psalm 119: 24 states, “Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.”
Psalm 119:46, “I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.”
The testimonies of God are the things of God.
The testimonies of God are evidence of what God can do.
His testimonies are worthy of mediation.
The testimony of God is what is needed to plead for the case before God. Isaiah 45:26 states, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.”
Do you have any testimony to remind God when presenting your case before God to gain His favor?
In your challenge, state your case by referring to what God has done and what He can do.
God is faithful to honor His word.
Prayer for today: Ask that the help of God will enable keeping His testimony constant.