FAITH CAPSULE: Complaining instead of complimenting could cause greater pain than what you are complaining about.
Numbers 14
Are you complaining about what you have not yet received this year? Regardless of what your challenges are, know for sure that complaining does not settle well before God. Complaining is sin and God will not overlook sin. He did not overlook 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. For the children of Israel, a journey of eleven days went on and on for forty years. It was not forty hours or forty days. Neither was it forty weeks or forty months, but forty years. The children of Israel were to travel through the wilderness to their Promised Land for eleven days, but the journey went on for forty years. Are you experiencing a time of wandering around in a wilderness situation? Have you been complaining in any way that you have taken? Wilderness is a route to pass through, but not to live like the children of Israel did. Wilderness journey is not a journey that you plan for but a journey that puts you in the plan of God for your life. Wilderness journey is a journey of trial and temptation and it is the only avenue that leads from the promise of God to getting to God’s Promised Land for His children. It is a process ground for the promises of God. An attempt to avoid the wilderness journey will make a believer become a wanderer and not a wonder in the area of divine calling. In the wilderness journey, a failure to progress by faith will lead to a passing on to termination. The complaining of the generation that came out of Egypt caused them to live, wandered and died in their wilderness journey. Acts of complaining are acts of rebellion, self-destruction, and termination. Are you complaining about your situation? God responded to complaining in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.” God promised to take them to the Promised Land. He showed them great and mighty signs in Egypt, and on their way out of Egypt. Can you count your blessings so far this year? If you cannot, begin to meditate on the testimonies of God. His testimonies are more than enough to transport and bring you out of your challenges to the promises of God for your life.
Prayer for today: Ask God for deliverance from the spirit that causes one to complain.