FAITH CAPSULE: Mixed multitude or crowd does not sit well on any journey of expectation.
Numbers 11:1-35
When there is expectation to be successful in any engagement or journey of life, excluding distraction is a must. Often, multitude is the agent of distraction that needs to be eliminated. The multitude is the crowd and the crowd is the multitude. On your journey, are you experiencing distraction more than usual? Distraction that is caused by the multitude or the crowd will slow or deny one’s expectation from becoming a manifestation.The children of Israel, after over four hundred years of bondage in Egypt could not detach themselves from the multitude. The Bible recorded in Exodus 12:37-38, “Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock.”The Israelites already have more than enough to carry when mixed multitude became part of their luggage.
Definitely, a mixed multitude or crowd does not sit well on any journey of expectation. Jesus, our Lord and savior demonstrated the need to know when to deny multitude from becoming agent of distraction or delay. Jesus could not tolerate but terminate the multitude/crowd by putting them out before engaging people with need for healing or deliverance miracle.Jesus came to ruler’s house in attempt to restore the ruler’s daughter back to life, “…when He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing, He said to them, “Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they ridiculed Him.But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.”(Matthew 9:23-25) Likewise did Peter. In Acts 9:40, “Peter put them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, ‘Tabitha, arise.’ And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.”Are you learning from Jesus’ examples like Peter did?
The children of Israel did not put out the multitude on their journey. Is the multitude you are carrying along anything that does not represent God? Perhaps you are compromising with those who do not share your beliefs? The mixed multitude became a silent baggage of trouble as the Israelites journeyed to the Promised Land. It is written,“Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said; who will give us meat to eat?”(Numbers 11:4) The mixed multitude caused them to crave instead of being grateful, and they ended up in the grave.
Prayer for today:Ask God for help in removing all that represents the mixed multitude on your journey of life.