Wilderness Season Series

Psalm 13 expresses David's feelings of despondency and questioning God's silence during a difficult time while he was in the wilderness. It's a lament, characterized by a sense of abandonment and a cry for God's intervention. David questions how long God will continue to hide His face and whether He has forgotten him. The psalm ends with a shift towards trust and rejoicing, as David acknowledges God's love and anticipates deliverance.

I want to speak about a different spiritual season in our life - I will call its a Wilderness Experience as David faced, Its a different spiritual warfare season of our life.

This wilderness was a place of despair and discouragement, where everything looked dry and empty, and my once fruitful life felt barren—like the Israelites, wandering in circles, going nowhere, and producing nothing. I felt distant from the Lord, wondering if He cared because I felt hidden, judged, and forgotten. It’s hard to notice anything good in the wilderness. The wilderness is a time of waiting. Wait. Few words are less welcome. I’ve never met anyone who likes to wait. When we wait long for something, our hopes can rise and die a hundred times. Heartsickness becomes a close companion. We don’t know what God is doing and must simply wait for His timing. With no control over our future, we live day to day, dependent on Him. Our lives feel like they are on hold. I often walked into my wilderness days with little expectation. The world may have been moving all around me, but I felt stuck—stalled, stranded, waiting. Life could begin again if only this wait would end.

In our waiting, God does His most profound work. Waiting is hard and lonely, and often, it feels hidden. Others don’t feel the ache of unfulfilled desires in our hearts, or see the tears that stream down our cheeks, or hear the prayers we cry out to the Lord. God is at work in our waiting. We might not see any changes in these times, particularly through wilderness seasons, but there is a plan and purpose in all of it. God brings us to wilderness seasons because here He is molding and shaping us, teaching us things we cannot learn elsewhere. The wilderness can tether our hearts to Jesus in ways nothing else can. It is a place that requires dependence, not self-reliance. The hope that sustains us in wilderness seasons reminds us that God is there, doing some of His most important work.

Why is waiting so hard to do? Why do we resist it with every fiber of our being? How do we wait well in wilderness seasons?

1). What is our Spiritual Wilderness.

* Its a season when you cannot fully comprehend what God is doing in your life.

* Lord is leading you in a direction which you cannot fully understand

* Its a period of silence when God seems distant from you, seems God is far away from us.

Psalms 13:1-2 " How long, O Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

Jpb 23:8-9 " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him".

2). Danger in the Wilderness

In this section, I want to point out some possible dangers if we are not careful.

This is the time the enemy tries to distract us from the Plan of God. Satan will use us to think and speak against God and His plans in our life.

When we go through the season of wilderness experience where we feel rejected and abandoned even by God, we are forced by the enemy to think the following way.

1. We go impatient in our life and step back from following God's direction

2. We doubt the plan of God for us

3. We doubt the Sovereignty and love of God

4. We let loose our dreams and passions.

3) Why there is wilderness season in our life

Because:

1. its a time of learning,

A new season of learning God's plans and His ways.

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). The verse instructs us to put all our trust in the Lord and not our own knowledge. The verse tells us not to be reliant on our strength and knowledge, but to trust in the Lord.

2. Wilderness is the road to the promised land.

Once the Hebrews had escaped Pharaoh’s tyrannical grip, a new set of problems arose quickly. People being people, they quickly put aside their amazement at God’s miraculous rescue and began to complain about their first experience of freedom. They entered the wilderness.