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Numbers 13

Every believer who confesses the Lord God is in debt of constant and consistently calling and requesting for the mercy of God on a daily and regular basis. The Bible declares in Romans 3:23, ÒFor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.Ó Indeed God is a merciful God and the Lord sits as King forever. How on earth can we not take Him for His word on a regular basis? ManÕs way of not taking Him for His word on a regular basis is a demonstration of taking Him small at heart. Have mercy Lord God! Since the pollution of man in the Garden of Eden by the deceiver, man has continued not to take Him for His word the way He desires for us. Also, it was a demonstration of not taking Him for His word when the children of Israel failed to move and possess all He had ordained for them. Numbers 13:1-3, ÒAnd the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 ÔSend men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.ÕÓ Moses played his role by relaying the message as delivered unto him to the children of Israel. God Himself spoke in regard to the land that He was giving them. God did not lay any condition for giving the land unto them because it was His promise to Father Abraham that He wanted to fulfill as a faithful God. All the children of Israel needed to do was to go and spy out the land that God was giving them. A simple direction with a simple heart of reception will result in a simple, but yet grand manifestation. Likewise, a simple direction with a stony heart of reception will bring forth a destructive manifestation. Have you received any direction from God? All His directions are simple because He that gives direction is the One who will also see you through by His grace. The spies went and checked out the land and came back with a negative report. Giving a negative report of His promise was a demonstration of lack of faith and indirectly reporting God to be a liar against the fact and the truth that He has never told a lie and never can. The summary of the report was, ÒÉÓThe 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 great men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we are like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we are in their sight.ÕÓ (Numbers 13:32-33) When God calls you a winner and you call yourself a looser, you do not just lose, but you also become dead. All the people who received and believed a report that contradicted the promise of God died with the reporters of negativity. In gaining entrance into His promises, see through the LordÕs eyes by seeing it in His word. Do not see through manÕs eyes or manÕs word. What God promised He would do has already been done; just wait for the appointed time. He will enable you in Jesus name.