FAITH CAPSULE: Denying His promise for your life is despising His word.

Numbers 32:1-42

When the crying of the children of Israel began to reach God in heaven, God responded by speaking to Moses, “And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:7-8) God is a God that hears and answers when a call is placed unto Him. When you call on Him, know what you ask for and keep to all of His promises to your request.
God, in His response to the Israelites, promised the Israelites a land that flows with milk and honey, but they resigned themselves to a land that flows with only milk. The children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great multitude of livestock. When they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead were regions for livestock (Numbers 32:1), they decided to settle there and not go over the Jordan to the land where God was taking them. Denying His promise for your life is despising His word. Despising the word of God is setting self for self-destruction.
The children of Israel went to Moses and requested to stay. It is written, “Therefore they said, if we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.” (Numbers 32:5) Can you imagine man’s dubious thinking? God taking you to a higher mountain for silver and gold, and seeing silver, you opted to discontinue the journey and settle for the silver? Does that sound like you in any area of life? The children of Reuben and Gad limited themselves, they were only thinking of their livestock (source for milk). The thought of honey no longer held their interest. Are you thinking clearly when it comes to God’s promises and plans for your life? Deny yourself in your walk and remain with God’s plans and promises. God has never failed; He will not fail. God has a better plan for you than the plan you have for yourself. He said in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Do not keep yourself from what God has planned for you. His thoughts for us are better than the thoughts we carry in us.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take full charge of your life by instructing, teaching and guiding you to fully obey.