CLING TO HIS TESTIMONIES
Numbers 14:1-24

God is a jealous God. A jealous God will always protect His name, He will always honor His word, He will jealously protect the ones that give Him attention and He will not allow His testimony to be terminated. Testimony of a jealous God is important and is constantly being protected from being contaminated by any negativity. Testimonies of God are powerful and they will always provoke answered prayer and pave the way for a breakthrough. Once, Moses used testimonies to deliver the children of Israel from being struck and wiped out by God. The children of Israel provoked the anger of God when the spies made a negative report of what the land looked like. In response to their rebellious provocation, God responded to Moses, “How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them? I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.” (Numbers 14:11-12) The children of Israel with their rebellious act forgot the testimonies of what God did on their behalf and could not remember what He could do when they gave in to complaining. Moses could not hold on but reminded God about the testimonies of His doing, “…Then the Egyptians will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people up from among them, and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are among these people; that You, LORD, are seen face to face and Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying, 16 ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’” (Numbers 14:13-16) As grievous as the sin of the children of Israel was before God, when Moses reminded God about His testimonies, God pardoned their sin. God’s pardon spared them from being wiped out as He had earlier planned to. Testimonies of God are powerful and will deliver from every situation including shame. Will you cling to His testimonies for your deliverance? The Psalmist stated, “I cling to your testimonies: O LORD, do not put me to shame!” (Psalm 119:31) What else or where else would you be looking for your salvation to come from but the grace of God. Be encouraged, meditate on His testimonies and you will navigate safely in this world of wickedness.
Prayer for today: Father, let your spirit help me cling to your testimonies so that deliverance will be my portion, in Jesus name.