Daily Devotional (February-02-2024) BELIEVE YOU CAN.
Scripture Reference: "Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it" (Num. 13:30).
From our text today, Moses was instructed by God to send out twelve men, one from each tribe, to go and spy the land of Canaan in order to be convinced it was a good land and further strengthen their faith in His promise take over the land from its Aborigines who were wicked men. Sadly, ten of the spies brought a negative, very discouraging and very disturbing report that although it was a good land, its inhabitants were too powerful for them to defeat, that the inhabitants were giants while they themselves were grasshoppers, that it was a land that devoured its inhabitants, and finally, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we"(Num. 13:31). Their report was borne out of unbelief and fear, which God hates, and which have the psychological consequences of discouragement and being demoralized, to themselves and their audience.
Positive confession is a psychological boost to the mind which brings Courage, intrepidity, resilience, indomitability, irrepressibility and victory over challenges of life. Negative confessions bring defeat, failure, stagnation, wandering about in life without making progress, barrenness, sicknesses, and even death (Prov 18:21). Please, avoid it, even when you are joking. Let us confess, "We are able". "l am able". "We can". "I can."
To overcome the ploy of Satan, Christians should study and fill their hearts with the Word of God to boost their faith. They should live righteously, pray effectively and keep the right company with people of faith like Caleb and Joshua who spoke positively based on God's word, that we are able to handle such situations very successfully. We mustn't see Satan and his cohorts as being superior to us. No examination or subject should be seen as too difficult for us to pass in flying colours. No battle must be seen as too tough to win, if we are sure of being in God's perfect will.
PRAYER - Lord, help me to avoid unbelief and negative confessions.
