FAITH CAPSULE: Learn and gain understanding not to receive or confess negativity.
Numbers 13
What transpire in the heart will transfer through the mouth. Jesus buttress stating, “…For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12:34) Obviously, it is not possible to perceive good in the heart and profess evil with the mouth. Ones who take the word of God positively will confess positive and ones who take the word negatively will confess negative. How are you receiving the word into your heart? It is important to watch what is being communicated through the mouth. The book of proverbs admonished, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 8:21) Take every word of God as life, confess life; live and not die.
The children of Israel had problem holding to the truth and the life in the word of God by confessing negative instead of positive. God spoke to Moses, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a leader among them.” (Numbers 13:2-3) In God’s message there was no laid down condition for giving the land but only His promise to give the land. All that the children of Israel needed to do was to go and spy out the land.
A living word of direction with a simple heart of reception will result in a simple, but yet grand manifestation. Likewise, a simple direction with a stony heart of reception will bring forth a destructive manifestation. Have you received any direction from God? All His directions are simple because He that gives direction is the One who will also see you through by His grace. Spies went and checked out the land and they brought back a negative report. Giving a negative report of His promise was a demonstration of lack of faith. Spies reported negative against the promise of God stating, “…The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are great men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we are like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we are in their sight.’” (Numbers 13:32-33) All the people who received and believed negative report which contradicts the promise of God died. Learn and gain understanding not to receive or confess negativity, speak life instead of death to every challenging situation. Possess and gain entrance into His promises, see through His word and not through the word of man. What God promised to do is a done deal.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to become a victim of negative confession.