FAITH CAPSULE: Multitude is a great source of complaint to God instead of complimenting God.

Numbers 14:1-35

Are you advancing in the plans and promises of God for your life? In life, among the major hindrances of man arriving at the center of divine assignment is engaging multitude. A failure to disengage multitude is an engagement to failure not to arrive. The bible recorded, “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.” (Exodus 12:37-38) Evidently, when the children of Israel were coming out of the bondage of over hundred years, multitude accompanied them and played a major role denying them from getting through to God’s Promised Land for them.
As they progressed on journey, the effect of mixed multitude manifested negatively. It is written, “Now the mixed multitudes 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? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” (Numbers 11:4-6)

Mixed multitude was the source of intense craving for what was not important in their journey to their God Promised Land. Imagine coming out of captivity or bondage and not focusing on promises of God in life? Does that sound like you? Are you focusing on where you are heading to or looking back to the past which added nothing to you but pain? The Israelites began to count on what was in the past instead of counting the miracles that brought them out of their past. It is important to note and constantly meditate in the journey of life that whatever God performs, He is more than able to perfect it when focus on Him is maintained. The craving of the Israelites dug the grave for twenty years above (except for Joshua and Caleb) and their Promised Land became a termination.

Mixed Multitude among them was a great source of complaint to God instead of complimenting God for His grace of deliverance. God responded, “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 14:27-30) Pay attention to deny agents of multitude in your journey to breakthrough.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to identify and deny every agents of multitude in your journey of life.