Good Report or Evil Report

Do we trust GOD enough to give a Good Report???  Do we trust God enough to say what HE says in HIS WORD (even when our circumstances don’t look good)???

 

For some time now on my blog, we’ve been talking about trusting in GOD completely.  The Lord began to speak to me about trusting HIM completely.  HE said that what we say is directly related to how much we really trust in HIM!!!

 

Whether we realize it or will even acknowledge it, what we really think and feel is hidden in the deepest parts of our heart.  And when we talk, what we think and feel comes right out of our mouths.  For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. Luke 6:45

Luke 6:45 (CEV) Good people do good things because of the good in their hearts. Bad people do bad things because of the evil in their hearts.

 

While the things of God are at times so simple, we ALL know that life isn’t simple!!!  We ALL wish it could be, but it isn’t!!! 

 

And so it is NOT a matter of whether we trust God or NOT, but rather do we trust HIM for this particular situation, here and now!!!  Do we have the FAITH to believe that GOD WILL BRING US THROUGH THIS SITUATION AND PROVIDE FOR US IN THIS SITUATION???

 

You see, some folks have the FAITH to believe and trust in The LORD to heal them.  They actually walk in Divine Healing, but then they worry that their lights will get cut off because their FAITH does NOT extend to finances!!! 

 

And of course, there are those who have FAITH that God will pay ALL their bills and always make a way for them to buy groceries, but when their throat hurts, they immediately say that they are sick!!!  These folks are walking in Divine Wealth, but NOT Divine Health.

 

God will meet us at our FAITH, but He would rather that WE HAVE FAITH IN HIM FOR ALL AREAS!!!  GOD WANTS US TO HAVE FAITH ACCORDING TO HIS WORD FOR ALL AREAS!!! 

3 John 1:2 (NKJV) Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

 

There are many areas in which we should trust The Lord!!!  And there are ALL kinds of areas for us to believe for!!!  Unless we know what the WORD says, we do not know what we are supposed to believe or have FAITH for!!! 

 

Hosea 4: 6 (KJV) My people perish from a lack of knowledge.

I love to listen to Kenneth Copeland preach!!!  And I love to hear him share the things that God has told him.  God told him once many years ago that knowing what the Bible says makes FAITH EASY!!!

So, I say to you today, believe what THE BOOK SAYS and SAY WHAT THE BOOK SAYS!!! 

If you want to hear from God read HIS WORD!!!  HIS WORD tells you ALL about HIM!!! IT tells you how HE thinks, and feels!!!  It tells you what HE SAYS!!!

Make sure that your words line up with HIS WORD!!!  AND ALWAYS SAY WHAT GOD SAYS!!!

 

 

Before the children of Israel ever left Egypt; before God drowned Pharaoh and the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, this is what God had told Moses. 

Exodus 33:1-3 

¹And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:

 ²And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 

 ³Unto a land flowing with milk and honey…

GOD HAD ALREADY PROMISED THEM THIS LAND AND HERE HE SAYS, I WILL SEND AN ANGEL TO DRIVE OUT THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND BEFORE YOU!!

 

And when they got to the land that God had promised them, he told Moses to send out 12 spies, one leader from each of the 12 tribes.

 

And this is the report that they brought back to Moses and the people.

Numbers 13 (KJV)

 ²⁷And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 

 ²⁸Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

 ²⁹The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. 

Caleb speaks in FAITH!!!  He speaks good words; encouraging words!!!  HE GIVES A GOOD REPORT!!!  CALEB SAYS HERE WHAT GOD HAD ALREADY TOLD THEM!!! 

 ³⁰And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

But the men (the other 10 spies) that were with Joshua and Caleb, spoke IN FEAR!!!  They did not speak in faith!!!  FEAR IS THE OPPOSITE OF FAITH!!! 


GOD SAYS THAT THE WORDS THAT THESE 10 MEN SPOKE WERE EVIL.  HE SAYS THAT THEY BROUGHT UP AN EVIL REPORT!!!


 ³¹But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

 ³²And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

Do you see in verse 33, that the problem wasn’t with the people in the land, but in how the children of Israel chose to look upon themselves?  THEY CHOSE FEAR OVER FAITH!!!   

Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

This is what the Lord said about the children of Israel after they refused to trust in Him and obey HIM; after they refused to walk in FAITH!!! 

Numbers 14 (KJV)

 ²²Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

 ²³Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

Here is what happened to the children of Israel because they believed the evil words that were spoken instead of believing in GOD!!! 

Numbers 14

 ³⁴After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

 ³⁵I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

 ³⁶And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

 ³⁷Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

GOD honored those men of FAITH; Joshua and Caleb; those men that brought the GOOD REPORT!!!

Numbers 14:24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Just as today, those that walked in FAITH obtained the GOOD PROMISES of GOD!!!

 Numbers 14:24:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

Are your words an EVIL REPORT in GOD’s EYES??? 

OR ARE YOU GIVING A GOOD REPORT??  Are the words you speak, GOOD FAITH-FILLED WORDS SHOWING HOW MUCH YOU BELIEVE IN GOD??