FAITH CAPSULE: As a believer, let your testimonies of God be positive to provoke an answer with positives for you as an overcomer.

Numbers 14

King David is the evidence of one with positive testimony before God to experience mighty deliverance when he overcame Goliath. In his attempt to go and fight Goliath, King Saul attempted to discourage David when he said, “…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 the word of Saul, could not be discouraged from going to confront Goliath but responded with the testimony of his experience in the past. David said 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, 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) 
With the testimony of God, David to war against Goliath against the discouragement of Saul.
David dwelt on the testimony of God over his life, “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, overcame the challenge of giant Goliath.  
As a believer, before God, avoid confessing negative testimonies to provoke an answer of negative.
For the Israelites, the testimony of negative was the evidence of not arrive at the promise of God. The children of Israel experienced a great miracle when they were coming out of their bondage of over four hundred years to walk through the Red Sea on dry land. However, their negative testimonies denied them from arriving at the Promised Land. 
The negative response of the Israelites was the negative report of the spy that went to spy on the Promised Land. The negative of the Israelites states before God, “…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? So they said to one another, ‘Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.’” (Numbers 14: 2-4) 
Are you testifying of negative confession in the face of your challenge?
The testimony of the Israelites was a negative confession, and God sent Moses, “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) 
Negative confession terminated twenty years above, from the Promised Land, except Joshua and Caleb. 
Just like Joshua and Caleb, let your testimony be a positive confession instead of a negative confession in your ways before God. 
Watch your word as Proverbs 18:21 warns, “Death and life are in the power of tongue…” 
Always, God hears all, confess positive, not negative.

Prayer for today:  In your confession, ask for the mercy of God.