Mixed Multitude< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Numbers 11:1-35

Multitude is crowd, crowd is multitude. Whatever goes with you in the journey of life will determine your going and how you end up in the journey of life. The children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel, after bondage of over 400 years, entered into their journey to the promise land. When they left Egypt, they could not detach themselves from the multitude and baggage they had carried along from Egypt. Exodus 12:38, ÒA mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds-a great deal of livestock.Ó Mixed multitude or crowd does not settle well in any journey of expectation. There are times Jesus put out the crowd before a miracle Matthew 9:25, ÒBut when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl rose.Ó Like Jesus, Peter also put out the crowd. In Acts 9:40, ÒPeter put them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, ÔTabitha, arise.Õ  And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.Ó The children of Israel did not put out the multitude in their journey. Are you carrying multitude or anything that does not represent God, or share your belief? Mixed multitude became a silent baggage of trouble as they journeyed to the promise land. Numbers 11:4, ÒNow the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said; who will give us meat to eat?Ó Mixed multitude caused them to crave instead of being grateful, and they ended up in the grave. It is time to ask God for help in removing all that represents mixed multitude in your journey of life.

Disobedience< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Genesis 2:15-25, 3:1-10

Disobedience will cause man to be naked. When your covering is lost, you will be found in fear. When God made Adam, He gave him a command of what to eat and what not to eat. Genesis 2:17, ÒBut of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.Ó When Eve came into his life, the serpent came into play. The serpent came cunningly and talked Eve into eating the fruit that was commanded by God not to eat. Eve also talked Adam into eating from the tree. Genesis 3:7, ÒThen the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed the leaves together and made themselves coverings.Ó Disobedience stripped them of GodÕs covering and they began to make coverings for themselves. When a child of God enters into blatant disobedience, it will lead to exposure to the enemy. As a child of God, you cannot afford to enter against GodÕs command like Adam and Eve did because it will lead to nakedness. When nakedness has taken its place, fear will have its reign. God called back on Adam, Genesis 3:9-10, ÒThen the LORD God called back on Adam and said to him, ÔWhere are you?ÕÓ ÒSo he said, ÔI heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.ÕÓ Is there any area of constant act of disobedience that you have engaged yourself? You are warned; let it go before it becomes an issue of nakedness and fear. Fear is not of God, it is of the devil. Ask today for His grace to keep you from disobedience.

Only God< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

1 Kings 17:1-6, 19:1-9

When trouble is in the making, only God can hide and keep you. Elijah set the land in trouble by asking rain to cease from falling. After stopping the rain, God commanded him to go and hide. 1 Kings 17:3 ÒGet away from here and turn eastward and hide by the brook Cherith, which flows into the < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Jordan.Ó In GodÕs command for Elijah to hide, there was also provision for preservation because it was of God. 1 Kings 17:4, ÒAnd it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.Ó Is there any area of life that you have been hiding? If it is of God, the signs will be there for you, peace and provision will not be missing during your hiding season. The same Elijah ran when fear located him. He ran when God did not ask him to run. After the Mount Carmel miracle, Ahab reported Elijah to Jezebel how he had executed the prophets with the sword. As a result of the report of Ahab, Jezebel vowed to kill Elijah. 1 Kings 19:3, ÒAnd when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.Ó Can you imagine such a mighty man of God running without God? 1 Kings 19:4, ÒBut he himself went a dayÕs journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, ÔIt is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!ÕÓ When you run under the command of fear, you will be exhausted, frustrated, and you will have lack where you are not suppose to. Remember what the Lord has done for you in the past, God has brought you this far and He will not fail you in the future. 1 Kings 19:9, ÒAnd there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, ÔWhat are you doing here, Elijah?ÕÓ Only God can hide you and not yourself. Allow Him to be God in all. 

Not Enough< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Isaiah 29:13-14, Luke 8:19-21

It is not enough when you hear and not do what you have heard in the word. Are you religious, or are you a believer? If what you are hearing is not evident in your life, it means you are not living the word. Hearing the word does not qualify one as a believer.  Hearing the word and doing the word is what qualifies one as a believer. JesusÕ response to those that went to deliver a message that His mother and brothers were looking for Him was a clear message that just hearing and not doing the word is an error; it is incomplete and will not count one as a believer. Luke 8:19, ÒBut He answered them and said to them, ÔMy mother and My brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.ÕÓ It does not matter how much or how often you draw to Him, the word has to be in you and you need to do what the word says. In these days, drawing to Him should never be a yardstick in measuring or identifying one as a believer. Today, so many are drawing unto God with their mouth while their heart and ears are outside. Matthew 15:8, ÒThese people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.Ó  Ask God for the grace to open the ears of your heart that will enable you in His word. You hear the word of God with the ear and you listen with the heart.

Not a Letter< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

2 Corinthians 3:6-18

The word of God is not a letter, it is Spirit. John 6:63, ÒIt is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.Ó How have you been receiving the word of God? Have you been receiving it lightly, or seriously as a letter or Spirit? If you have been receiving the word of God as a letter, it will weigh you down, and you will be better off not to have received it than to receive and be weighed down into stagnation with no motion in life. However, if you have been receiving the word of God as Spirit, you will have life and the word will make you a rider rather than a pusher. The word will be carrying you around and above in this wicked generation. The letter kills. 2 Corinthians 3:6, ÒWho also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.Ó Ask God for the grace to be spending valuable time on the word of God. It is when you receive and believe in the word that you will become a believer because you will be living what you have received. The word of God would mean less to you until you no longer receive the word only as daily bread, but also as oxygen. You can do without bread 2 to 3 days, but without oxygen, you are dead. Today, carefully consider desiring and asking God for the grace to increase you with the zeal for His word that is life, not letter.