FAITH CAPSULE: If your heart is one that is being guarded by the word of God, confessions becomes more of positive than negative.

Numbers 14, 1 Samuel 8:1-9
 
Whatever man speaks from his heart is what springs out for manifestation. Are you constantly speaking positive or negative concerning your situation? It is written in Proverbs 4:23 “Keep your heart with all diligence,for out of it spring the issues of life.”Jesus said, “…for out of the abundanceof the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12:34) The two scriptural verses testify that heat is where every positive or negative confession springs out from. What is the state of your heart? If your heart is one that is being guarded by the word of God, confessions becomes more of positive than negative. The children or Israel could not confess positive in the face of challenge but negative. God heard their negative complain and He responded by sending Moses to them, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness…” (Numbers 14:28-29)
Also, whatever you are asking God to do for should be asked with clear understanding.God is still in the business ofanswering the call of His children. Some things you ask for will go forth and be delivered and there will be no excuse. Proverbs 6:2, “You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are taken by the words of mouth.” When the Israelites were crying out and rejecting God, they displayed acts of ignorance. They did not know that their call was a call of rejecting God; they thought they were rejecting Samuel. 1 Samuel 8:7, “ And the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.” If you do not know what to ask of God or when to ask it, go before Him in thanksgiving and in praise.Thanking God wholeheartedly takes man through into His gates while praising God with understanding access man into His presence. Bible testifies, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”(Psalm 100:4)Thanking and praising God in deed and in truth will eliminate the trap of negative confession and elevate man to a place of positive possession.If you know what to ask Him, it is safe for you to go before Him in thanksgiving and praise worship. He is a faithful God. The children of Israel ignorantly rejectedGod as King. Ignorance is not an excuse before God. Be very careful in what you ask, when you ask and how you ask.
 
Prayer for today:Ask God for the grace that your heart be constantly kept with diligence against all kinds of negativity.