FAITH CAPSULE: The evidence of having faith is to trust and hope not just trust.

Numbers 13

The journey of the Israelites from bondage to the Promised Land started with trust but lacked hope to arrive at the Promised Land.
The Israelites were at the Wilderness of Paran, waiting to move into the Canaan when God spoke to Moses to send men to spy out the land of Canaan. (Numbers 13)
Moses sent the spies as commanded by God.
The spies returned with a report: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” (Numbers 13:27-29)
The spies reported with trust, mentioning the goodness of the land.
However, their report was with no hope because of the fear for the people of the land by testifying, “…We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “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 men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” (Numbers 13:31-33)
The report testifies to trust but lacks hope in God.
The plans, the promises of God, will answer to one with faith.
The fear of the Israelites prompted fear to complain and confess negatively before God. 
Joshua and Caleb confess positively before God.
God responds to the negative confession of the Israelites: Numbers 14:28-30, “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. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.”
The plans and promises of God are His words that do not return void to Him.
Know and understand that God is not careless to deliver in His plans and promises.
Give full attention to the word of God. 
Jeremiah 17:7 admonishes, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.” 
Deny fear, know to trust and hope in the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to fear in God alone, not fear the wicked world.