FAITH CAPSULE: Full attention before God is trust and hope to receive fully from God.

Exodus 16

Without having trust and hope in God is not complete to arrive at the plans and promise of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”  Trusting God without having hope in God shall result in no blessing. Trusting God and having hope in God makes man rest on God and not be rebellious.   
Many times, the Israelites trust in God but no hope in God. 
The Israelites trust God to bring them out of bondage but could not hope in God meeting their needs.
Are you troubling to seek after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist confessed, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). Having faith is to trust and hope for what He has for all. 
During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel wanted what they left behind in Egypt instead of trusting and hoping in God to meet their needs. For the Israelites, without trust and hope in God, they resulted in a complaint. The children of Israel’s remembrance of what they were eating in Egypt (fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic – Numbers 11:5) was a clear demonstration of the fact that their wants were overriding the Lord’s provision of their need for the journey. 
Are you placing more focus on what you want more than how the Lord has been providing for your needs?
The children of Israel’s lack of want at hand turned them to a vessel of the complaint before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is a very act of rebellion. 
Complaining is a destiny terminator, and it will deny all to receive in the promised and plans of God that are in place for all.
Are you a conversant complainer before God, or you are one with the character of complimenting God at every breath of life He is giving you?
The Israelites craved for a pot of meat and bread instead of accepting the provision of God that was enough to meet their needs. Exodus 16:16 records the plan of God to meet the needs of the Israelites “…Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.”  Despite God’s direction, that was enough for meeting needs, some went above and beyond the word of God, by taking more than needed. As a result of not following the direction of God, all the children who took more eventually lost all. (Exodus 16:18-21). 
The children of Israel lost in their desire for wants, and they could not recognize the needs provided by God. 
Trusting and hoping in God is enough to meet your needs. 
Be patient, look up to God, and know that God’s provision is always on time to meet needs. Paul confirmed, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled trusting and hoping to wait on God.