![]() ![]() No matter how long you walk, wait, cry, and grow weary from your wilderness waiting season, method matters more than manifestation. Though it tarry, wait for it because it will surely come, it will not tarry (Habakkuk 2:3, KJV). God wants you to understand and be okay with letting go of anything that is not in alignment with what He promised you and be content within yourself that He has better for you. How you get what you desire is more important than when you get it because walking in the desert can make you so thirsty that you will drink from anywhere just to get your fill. The wilderness can put you in an involuntary season of waiting but how you wait is more important than how long you wait. Don’t take the bait because settling only has the potential to thwart your destiny and keep you from what you could have. That desperation and discouragement gives the enemy an open invitation to deceive us and cause us to settle for his watered-down, counterfeit version of God’s promise. We sometimes feel that God takes forever to fulfill His promises to us and we often get frustrated and then desperate. It’s fairly easy to get impatient in the wilderness, but you have to be careful not to get so impatient that you start trying to make your own way. ![]() For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. “ So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. Keep your focus on God and the promises He made to you. Walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). Remember, mirages will distort your vision and cause you to see things that don’t exist.ĭ on’t allow the scary things that you see around you, loneliness, heartache, and hardships, to obscure your vision. Instead, the desert develops and teaches you how to use your spiritual insight. ![]() In the wilderness, we learn how to live above “see” level or what we can see with our physical eyes. You learn to walk by faith and not by sight. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go, (Joshua 1:9, NLT). Remember the words of God to Joshua, be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. Just like you build fleshly muscle through resistance training, you build spiritual muscle the same way. ![]() You become that way by successfully going through everything that was sent to break you. You don’t become strong and tough by never going through anything. Whether you’ve never been there, are there now, or are on your way there, you will never be the same once you’ve been in it. In this post, we will discuss the wilderness experience and 7 important ways in which you are transformed in it. God will always check to see if you can stand the test to be blessed. They were on their way somewhere too, but God had to first test their loyalty. In the book of Exodus, the children of Israel found themselves in the wilderness after being rescued from Pharaoh by God at The Red Sea. You never know when you’re going, you just find yourself there. You’ll know you’re on your way somewhere when you find yourself in that place called the wilderness. It is a place of preparation and power if you have the tenacity to survive it. It is a place of isolation where we must always go it alone. The wilderness experience is an in-between place, not where you were, but not quite where you’re going. It is a place of education and training for your work in the kingdom of God. It’s full of rugged harsh places, loneliness, and more often than not, uncertainty. What is the Wilderness Experience? The Wilderness Experience is a place of testing prepared by God for our spiritual maturity. Would you wade through murky waters, filled with gators, snakes, and crocs waiting to devour you? Would you blindly trek up mountainous terrain, heavy showers pounding against your broken and tattered body threatening to reverse each step of progress as you climb? Of course no one would choose to walk into such a situation, but eventually, God chooses it for us. Of all the places you could go, would you choose to go into a dry, secluded wilderness where there’s no one else there but you and whatever wild things that live there? Would you walk through a deep valley guided by only the light of the moon, not knowing where you’re going? ![]()
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