FAITH CAPSULE: What you say is your confession and it will find you out.
Numbers 14
What are you saying?
It is very important that you know and pay attention to what comes out of your mouth. When thinking right becomes of one, speaking right will become ones portion. The Israelites could not think right enough to remember how God brought them out of the bondage of over four hundred years. They forget all the miracles before Pharaoh in Egypt. Pharaoh and his forces could not stop them; Red Sea failed to trap them. However, words of their mouth which they spoke to their life terminated them from getting to their Promised Land. They said, “And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”” Imagine those who have seen great miracle and yet could not fashion their thinking and their spoken word to be a positive one? Are you shaping your destiny right with right thinking and right communication?
How you think and what you say determines how God will respond to you. God responded to the Israelites negative confession (word), “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, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:28-30)
God is a good God. Without faith we cannot please. If without faith we displeased Him, with faith we shall surely please Him. It is lack of faith for a believer to be thinking negative or to be speaking (confessing) negative in the face of impossible challenges. God promised that with Him, all things are possible. At all times, in all situations we should know not to confess negative but positive. Indeed, we should constantly keep our heart with all diligence, for out of our heart spring forth every issue we engage in living life.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God to take charge over your life that you may constantly keep your heart with all diligence; that no negativity shall have a place in your heart or flow from your mouth.