What are you leaning on? Where we lean reveals where we find our confidence, where we put our trust. If where we lean changes, we feel shaky, nervous, unsettled. What are you leaning on?

Some of the places and people we lean on are stable for a season, but when they change, we feel unstable. If you lean on a President or Prime Minister, a Pastor or Apostle, if they do something other than what you expect, it shakes you.

If you lean on numbers, which many many many people do, if those numbers dip below where you feel safe, it makes you feel unstable. This can be stock market numbers, paycheck numbers, bank account numbers, members numbers, so many numbers we as people lean on.

King David shifted his confidence from covenant to numbers and it was detrimental for him. In 2 Samuel 24, King David took a census and this census brought judgment from the Lord. Why? Because the census was a David initiated not God commanded census. The census revealed numbers David wanted to know in order to have confidence in a battle God called him to fight.

Joab warned David not to take the census, but he took it anyway. This census shifted confidence from covenant to numbers and God was not happy.

We live in a world of numbers. Job numbers, stock market numbers, portfolio numbers, credit numbers, membership numbers, bank account numbers. There are numbers everywhere, but the Lord is saying, don’t shift your trust from covenant to numbers or it will make you shaky, unstable, insecure.

Numbers fluctuate, covenant remains constant, consistent. Lean on the truth that you are in a covenant relationship with God, so if numbers fluctuate you may see it but it does not alter your confidence, for covenant is continual, numbers are temporal. Www.apostolicresoucecenter.org