FAITH CAPSULE: Communicating negative confession will eventually terminate life.

Genesis 11:1-9, Numbers 14

Keeping heart with diligence is the way to keep mouth shut from negative confession. The word warned, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23) A heart that is well kept will void a negative thought. When there is no negative thought confessing negative shall not be in place. Negative confession is setting self for sudden death. Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Are you one that knows to communicate negative in the place of every challenge? Be warned because what you speak to yourself shall come to pass.
Through the pages of the Bible, different communication brought about different consequences. Once in the days after the flood, men gathered and stated, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4) A careless thought always provoke a negative confession. In the days after the flood, gathering of the people communicated pride which does not escape from God’s hearing. Evidently, God who planted ear and eye heard and saw the reckless motive of His creation. God reacted to people’s communication after the flood of Noah days, “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.” (Genesis 11:7-8) God heard the communication of the people, their agenda was terminated, and they were scattered just as they communicated.
After the bondage of over four hundred years, communicating negative confession took charge over the journey of the Israelites to their Promised Land. Communicating negative confession eventually terminated Israelites from Promised Land.  The Israelites responded to negative report by communicating negative confession, “…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…” (Numbers 14:2-4) God, who yearns jealously for our faith in Him, responded to the negative confession of the Israelites as stated, “…I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 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.” (Numbers 14:27-29) Israelites’ complaint was negative confession before God. As a result, with exception of Joshua and Caleb, twenty years old and above were denied from Promised Land.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God to be keeping heart diligently.