FAITH CAPSULE: Focus on giving positive testimonies.

Numbers 14

Evidence of Positive Testimony: King David, by the word of his testimonies, had a great and mighty deliverance when he overcame Goliath. In his attempt to go and fight Goliath, King Saul was discouraging when he said to David, “…You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33) David refused to be discouraged, but gave an account of what he was able to do as he responded to King Saul, “…Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, 35 I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it.” (1 Samuel 17:34-35) David was not intimated by the confronting challenge that was posed by Goliath. Instead, David dwelt on what The Lord his God had enabled him to do in the past and he gave testimony, “The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” (1 Samuel 17:37) David, by the word of his testimony, was able to overcome the giant challenge of Goliath.  
Evidence of Negative Testimony: The children of Israel experienced a great miracle when they were coming out of their bondage of over four hundred years and passing through the Red Sea on dry land but their testimonies denied them from God’s Promised Land. 
The Israelites’ response to the spy’s negative report after investigation of the Promised Land, they had no better testimony but to confess, “…If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 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? 4 So they said to one another, ‘Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.’” (Numbers 14: 2-4) 
God heard the children of Israel’s negative testimony when sent Moses to the Israelites, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.’” (Numbers 14:28) In truth, entire numbers from twenty years old and up except Caleb and Joshua, failed and not get to the Promised Land, because of their negative testimony.
What are your testimonies? Which words are being produced in you and being released by your tongue as testimony? Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of tongue…” David saw challenges, he testified to the power of God and he overcame. The children of Israel saw challenges, they confessed negative and could not arrive Promised Land. In facing challenges, give positive testimonies, meditate, confess and be established for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will be giving positive testimonies to the glory of God.