FAITH CAPSULE: Negative sound will hinder God’s promise.

Deuteronomy 1:19-46

God is faithful and true to His Word. Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you a future and a hope.” God who made this statement will not build you up and pull you down. The children of Israel were delivered from a bondage which appeared would last from eternity to eternity. The deliverance was enough confirmation for the children of Israel to know that God is a Mighty Deliverer. On their way to Canaan, the Red Sea could not hold them down; pharaoh failed in his attempt to re-enslave them. God was at hand carrying and providing for every call they made. God wanted to carry out His promise.
At a certain stage of their journey, Moses said to them “Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your father has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged (Deuteronomy 1:21) Sadly, the children of Israel had a different mind set of getting to their Promised Land. They did not take to heart the word of Moses, the mouthpiece of God. They were close to the land, but they were not looking up to the land. They must have been looking down away from the land. When God makes a promise and you are not looking up to that promise, you will miss out of His promise. Has He promised you something and you are looking down? Instead of going by God’s direction through Moses, they called on Moses and said, “Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.” (Deuteronomy1:22)
This was not God’s plan. God’s plan was to take them to their promise land. Has He brought you far enough and now you are taking things in your own hands? There is no right time to take over from God when He is leading. Their plan pleased Moses; so he took twelve of them to go and spy the land (Deuteronomy 1:23). Most of the spies came back with a negative report which generated complaints and all kinds of negativity. It is written, “And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was very angry, and took oath, saying, surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers.” (Deteurenomy1:34-35) In a journey that they over came hindrances, it was the sound of their mouth that hindered them from God’s promise.

Prayer for today: Ask God not to withhold His tender mercy from you.