WATCH YOUR MOUTH – PART 12

(Week 13)

“Be Careful What You Ask You Just Might Get It”

WEEKLY MEMORY VERSE

Philippians 2:14-15 New Living Translation (NLT)

Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticize

you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a
world full of crooked and perverse people.

DAILY CONFESSIONS
Lord, help me not to murmur and complain
Lord, help me to trust that You are my provider
Lord, help me to cast all my cares and worries on You
Lord, help me to know that You will feed, guide and shield me
Lord, help me to trust that you will never abandon me even when I don’t feel you
there
Lord, help me to stay constructive and trust You

How was your week of No Corrupt Communication?

Did anybody catch themselves about to say something and didn’t?

Anyone just couldn’t hold back and said it anyway?

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Part 1- The Creator

Part 2- Choice, Decisions, Consequences
Part 3- Firecracker
Part 4- It’s Your Heart, Not Your Dictionary
Part 5- Shut Up To Be Blessed
Part 6- I Know You Are Talking About Me
Part 7- Don’t Punch Down
Part 8- You Can’t Dim My Light
Part 9- No Vacancy
Part 10- Permission Granted
Part 11- Who’s In Your Ear?
Today’s Message Part 12- Be Careful What You Ask You Might Just Get It--For-
Murmuring and Complaining

Numbers 11:1-23 Amplified Bible (AMP)

The People Complain
1
Now the people became like those who complain and whine about their hardships,
and the Lord heard it; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire
of the Lord burned among them and devoured those in the outlying parts of the camp.
2
So the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire died
out.
1 Peter 5:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7
casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns,
once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and
watches over you very carefully].
3
He named that place Taberah (the place of burning), because the fire of the Lord
burned among them. 4 The [a]rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had
greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said,
“Who will give us meat to eat?

Psalm 23:1 Amplified Bible (AMP)

23
The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, to guide and to shield me],
I shall not want.
Philippians 4:19 Amplified Bible (AMP)
19
And my God will liberally supply (fill until full) your every need according to His
riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
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Psalm 37:25 Amplified Bible (AMP)

25
I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous (those
in right standing with God) abandoned Or his descendants pleading for bread.

5
We remember the fish we ate freely and without cost in Egypt, the cucumbers,
melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. 6 But now our [b]appetite is gone; there is nothing at
all [in the way of food] [c]to be seen but this manna. ”7 The manna was like coriander
seed, and it looked like [d]bdellium. 8 The people went about and gathered it, and
ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes with it; and
it tasted like cakes baked with fresh [olive] oil. 9 When the dew fell on the camp at
night, the manna fell with it.

John 6:32-33 Amplified Bible (AMP)

32
Then Jesus said to them, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, it is not
Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives
you the true [a]bread out of heaven. 33 For the Bread of God is He who comes
down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

The Complaint of Moses

10
Now Moses heard the people weeping [in self-pity] throughout their families, every
man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and [e]Moses
regarded their behavior as evil. 11 So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You been so
hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have
placed the burden of all these people on me? 12 Was it I who conceived all these
people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in
your [f]arms as a nurse carries the nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their
fathers’? 13 Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before
me and say, ‘Give us meat, so that we may eat.’ 14 I am not able to carry all these
people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. 15 So if this is the way You are
going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do
not let me see my wretchedness.”

Seventy Elders to Assist

16
Accordingly, the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for Me [g]seventy men from among the
elders of Israel whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers; bring
them to the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle) and let them stand there with you. 17 Then I
will come down and speak with you there, and I will take away some of the Spirit who
is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people
with you, so that you will not have to bear it all alone. 18 Say to the people, ‘Consecrate
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(separate as holy) yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept
[in self-pity] in the ears of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For we were
well-off in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. 19 You shall
eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, 20 but a
whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and is disgusting to you—because you
have rejected and despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept [in self-pity]
before Him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’” 21 But Moses said, “The people,
among whom I am, are 600,000 [fighting men] on foot [besides all the women and
children]; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat it for a whole
month!’ 22 Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them?
Or should all the fish of the sea be collected for them to be sufficient for them?” 23 The
Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s hand (ability, power) limited (short, inadequate)? You
shall see now whether My word will come to pass for you or not.”

WISDOM KEYS

1. GOD DELIVERS
Numbers 11:31-34 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The Quail and the Plague
31
Now there went forth a wind from the Lord and it brought quails from the sea, and
let them fall [so they flew low] beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side
and on the other side, all around the camp, about two cubits (three feet) deep on
the surface of the ground. 32 The people spent all that day and all night and all the
next day and caught and gathered the quail (the one who gathered least gathered
ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves around the camp [to cure
them by drying]. 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was
chewed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck
them with a very severe plague. 34 So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah (the
graves of greediness), because there they buried the people who had been greedy
[for more than the manna that God provided them].

2. Just Do It With Excellence

Philippians 2:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)

14
Do everything without murmuring or questioning [the providence of God],

3. Break the Habit of Complaining

Jude 1:16 Amplified Bible (AMP)
These people are [habitual] murmurers, griping and complaining, following after
their own desires [controlled by passion]; they speak arrogantly, [pretending
admiration and] flattering people to gain an advantage.
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Quote:
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. - Disraeli

4. Change Your Focus and It Will Change Your Attitude

Colossians 3:22-25 Amplified Bible (AMP)
22
Servants, in everything obey those who are your masters on earth, not only with
external service, as those who merely please people, but with sincerity of heart
because of your fear of the Lord. 23 Whatever you do [whatever your task may be],
work from the soul [that is, put in your very best effort], as [something done] for the
Lord and not for men, 24 knowing [with all certainty] that it is from the Lord [not from
men] that you will receive the inheritance which is your [greatest] reward. It is the
Lord Christ whom you [actually] serve.

1. THE REASONS WE START MURMURING

Definition: To murmur means to complain with a spirit that is critical and negative. It
is a verbal negative attitude focused either at something, or someone.
A. Guilt
B. Impatience
C. Insecurity
D. Disappointment
E. Stress
F. Irritation
G. Anger

2. THE PROBLEM WITH MURMURING

Murmuring IGNORES God’s POTENTIAL

Murmuring JUMPS to the WRONG CONCLUSION

Murmuring Brings BAD JUDGMENT

Murmuring BREEDS Self-PITY

Murmuring left unchecked LEADS to DISSATISFACTION

Murmuring BRINGS God’s JUDGMENT

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3. THE PROCESS TO CORRECT MURMURING

Stay constructive and trust God

Understand murmuring starts with sharing “outside the loop”

Refuse to be a conduit