COMPLIMENT DONÕT COMPLAIN< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Numbers 14

The God that was, is He that is and will always be. He has never changed and forever He will not change. That is why only He is the unchanging changer. In regard to His response to His creations complaining, He will not overlook it. He did not over look it when the children of Israel complained against Him then, and He will not overlook it now. Complaining instead of complimenting the work of His hand could cause greater pain than what you are complaining about. The children of Israel entered vigorous and repetitive complaining indirectly and directly against God, and the result was eventually termination in the course of their journey. Numbers 14:27-28, ÒHow 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. 28 Say to them, ÔAs I live,Õ says the LORD, Ôjust as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 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.Ó In the course of their complaints to God, God heard them as they were confessing all the negatives and all the negatives were recorded for them. They confessed death, reversal and all that does not glorify God. What can cause you to complain and confess death? There is a need to be conscious of the words that come out of your mouth regardless of what you are passing through today. The Bible says in Proverb 18:21, ÒDeath and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.Ó The children of Israel could not pay attention to what they were confessing in their complaints. It is not worth it to complain at all because GodÕs hand can never be too short concerning every area of challenges. It is a wise move to pray to God for the grace not to enter a conscious or unconscious act of complaining against God and what He is doing in the life His children. Only prayer, not determination, will help in staying away from complaining. At a point, after Moses had pleaded on behalf of the children of Israel not to be destroyed, ÒThen the LORD said to Moses: ÒHow long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them? (Numbers 14:11) Have you seen enough signs to know and believe that complaining against God is rejecting God, and that complaining against God is asking for termination? How long will you not believe that He is capable to see you through despite all that stands against you?