FAITH CAPSULE: Dwelling at the same ground is possible to be an evidence of not seeing in the promises of God.

Deuteronomy 1

This season see in God’s promises to possess. Promises of God through the pages of the bible are well laid for man while His children languish and not able to see and possess promises of God. Seeing in the promise of God is to receive and possess His promise. God promised the Israelites to possess land that flows with milk and honey (Promised Land). In their journey from the bondage of over four hundred years they made the choice to dwell too long at Horeb instead of moving forward to God’s Promised Land. To be dwelling too long, away from the promise of God for a man’s life is abiding outside of the promise of God. Does that sound like you?
Dwelling wrongly is taking step out of God’s word. God responded to the Israelites wrong dwelling, He sent Moses to the Israelites stating, “The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain.  Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land…” (Deuteronomy 1:6-8) Dwelling wrongly of the Israelites was the evidence of not seeing in the word of God.
Seeing in the word of God will work against doubt. However, not seeing in the word of God will accommodate doubt for man to miss out of God’s promise. Israelites could not see in the word of God, but doubt set up a place in their journey to over stay at Horeb. The Israelites should not have had any reason for doubt but to move forward and possess God’s promise. The Israelites proved shortsightedness by not moving forward but rather went forward with a spying mission. Moses testified, “Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.” (Deuteronomy 1:22) The Israelites wanted to possess the Promised Land by seeing the world around them instead of seeing and engaging the word of God. Israelites demonstrated wanting to make sure God knows what He was talking about when He asked them to move forward. Evidently, the Israelites could not see as commanded by God. Ability to see in what God says is a direct effect to possess God’s promise. Month after months you continue to dwell at the same ground. Could it be you are not able to see in the promises of God to bring you out of stagnation? It is time to ask for clarity of sight that you may see in God’s word and be able to move and possess His promise for you.

Prayer for today: Ask God that the new month shall be your month of clarity of sight to see in His word.