FAITH CAPSULE: It is wrong for negativity in the place of positive.

Numbers 13

What are you thinking in your heart? Are you positive about the promise in the word of God or you are negative about the promise in the word of God? The Israelites received the promise of God but could not receive the word of God to heart with positive but negative. 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 the only condition for the Israelites to claim the promise of God was to go and spy out the land. There was no need for doubt; there was no need to be afraid but to rest in the promise of God that never fail.
A living word of God is direction, deliverance and preservation for any man with simple heart of reception. In life, a simple direction with a stony heart of reception will bring forth failure and self-destruction.
Have you received promise in the word of 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 despised the promise of God. In every word of God apply understanding not to receive or confess negativity. In every step of life, regardless of challenges it is worthy to speak life instead of death. Possess and gain entrance into God’s by seeing through His word and not through the word of man. What God promised to do is a done deal.
What man thinks about negatively transfer to the mouth for negative confession. Jesus warned, “…For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12:34) Apparently, it is not possible to perceive good in the heart and profess evil with the mouth. In the face of any situation, take the word of God positively, confess positive and not be a victim of negatively. Watch what is being communicated through the mouth. The book of proverbs cautioned, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 8:21) Take the word of God as life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be constantly confessing positive.