Faith Capsule: Comply with the word of God with consistency.  

Numbers 14:1-38

Trusting God to claim His promise demands obedience to the word of God.
Obedience to the word of God demands compliance without doubt.
Complying with the word of God with consistency will find God.
Obedience is trusting God to claim His promise by the word of God.
Thousands of the children of Israel followed Him, but only two (Caleb and Joshua) followed Him. 
The spy that went to spy on the Promised Land returned with a discouraging report for the children of Israel. 
The negative report was the evidence that the spy failed to hold on to the promise of God. 
Numbers 32:8-11 states, “Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them. So the Lord’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying, ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed Me.” 
One who does not believe God for His word has refused to follow Him the truth of God. 
The word of God testified that Caleb and Joshua were the only two who stood against the negative report of their fellow spy. 
All that was not able to hold onto the word of His promise could not make it to the Promised Land “except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.” (Numbers 32:12) 
All should trust God to experience the promise of God that does not return to Him void.
Are you trusting God as the way of life?
King Saul’s life story demonstrates half obedience to the command of God. 
God commanded Saul to go and attack the Amalek and utterly destroy all they had by not sparing them. 
God wanted Saul to kill all as commanded by God.
Saul took the command of God into his hand, not to obey, pleasing God.
1 Samuel 15:9, “But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.” 
It is disobedience in its class when there is a failure to obey the word of God.
Half-obedience makes hypocrites out of those who come to the Lord and do not follow him.
The children of Israel did not follow God, and they were terminated in the wilderness not to arrive at the promise of God. 
To obey God is to follow His Word. 
Following the Word of God is obeying God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live obediently to the command of God.