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Out In The Wilderness
Contributed by Gregory Thomas on Jan 13, 2016 (message contributor)
Summary: GOD KNOWS WHO’S SPIRITUALLY FIT FOR BLESSINGS AND WHO’S NOT, BUT NO ONE IS EXEMPT FROM A WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE, THOUGH WE HAVE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES WE ALL HAVE ONE OR MORE.
Out In The Wilderness
THERE WAS TWO WAYS FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN. ONE WAY WAS ONLY A FEW DAYS JOURNEY; THE OTHER WAS MUCH FURTHER. THE WAY THAT GOD CHOSE WAS THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND THAT WAS THE WAY GOD CHOOSES TO LEAD MANY OF US. GOD KNOWS WHO’S SPIRITUALLY FIT FOR BLESSINGS AND WHO’S NOT. SOME HAD TO DIE OUT SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT FIT TO ENTER INTO THE BLESSING SEAT OF GOD.
OUT IN THE WILDERNESS
TRIAL ISSUES
SOMETIME OUR WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE IS TO:
1. TEST US
3. HUMBLE US
3. QUIET US
4. GET US TO FOCUS ON OURSELVES
SOME ADHERE AND SOME DON’T, HOWEVER; THE CASE MAY SEEM; IT IS MOST PREVALENT THAT GOD GIVES UNTO US A WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE AND HE LEADS US THE WAY THAT HE KNOWS TO BE BEST FOR US, NEVERTHELESS; WE CAN PROLONG OUR JOURNEY WITH OUR CHRISTIAN PITY PARTIES.
Proverbs 16:25: There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
THE CHRISTIAN LOOKING FOR SYMPATHY, WHEN IN ESSENCE, IF THAT WERE WHAT HE HAD GOTTEN HE WOULD HAVE RECEIVED HIS REWARD AND A MINIMAL REWARD IT WOULD BE ACCORDING TO THE RICHES AND GLORY THAT GOD HAS IN STORE FOR THE CHRISTIAN.
THE WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE IS A MOST DIFFICULT EXPERIENCE
1. AN ACT OF FAITH BY WHICH WE ALL MUST HAVE
2. AN ACT OF PATIENCE BY WHICH WE ALL MUST SUSTAIN
IT NEED BE THAT THE CHRISTIAN BE FIT TO FIGHT THIS WAR THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THEIR CANAAN.
TODAY YOU MAY WELL BE OUT IN YOUR WILDERNESS BUT YOU SHOULD NO THAT GOD HAS YOU THERE FOR A: 1. REASON
2. SEASON
2. GODS’S PURPOSE
3. GOD’S PROPORTIONS
THE TRIALS OF HIS PEOPLE IS TO THE BENEFIT OF THEIR STRENGTH
1CORINTHIANS 10:13 SAYS;
THERE HATH NO TEMPTATION TAKEN YOU BUT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN: BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL WHO WILL NOT SUFFER YOU TO BE TEMPTED ABOVE THAT THAT YE ARE ABLE BUT WILL WITH TEMPTATION ALSO MAKE A WAY TOP ESCAPE THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT.
IT SHOULD BE A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT TO OUR FAITH THAT GOD WAS THERE YESTERDAY AND STILL REMAINS WITH US TODAY EVEN TIL THE END OF THE EARTH WILL HE PROVIDE US WITH A PILLAR OF A CLOUD , LEADING US AWAY BY DAY AND BY NIGHT IN A PILLAR OF FIRE TO GIVE US LIGHT WHICH WAS HERE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, THAT BEING JESUS WHOM GOD GAVE AS A RANSOM.
IT IS SO SAID INP JOHN 8:12http://www.sermoncentral.com/bible/NIV/JOHN-8.asp?passage=JOHN%208%3A12&ScrptureHover=sermon-50841-OUT%20IN%20THE%20WILDERNESS
THEN JESUS SAID AGAIN UNTO THEM SAYING, "I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: HE THAT FOLLOWETH ME SHALL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS BUT SHALL HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE.
OUT IN THE WILDERNESS
THERE ARE PEOPLE OTHER THAN CHRISTIANS THAT ARE ENCAMPED OUT IN THE WILDERNESS, SOME ARE SINNERS WITH MANY GROANS AND PAINS OF THIS SIN SICK WORLD,NEVERTHELESS, THEY HAVE THE SAME EXPECTATION OF REACHING THE END OF THEIR JOURNEY AND ARRIVING IN THEIR CANAAN AND OUT OF THE WILDERNESS THAT THEY MAY TOO FIND DELIVERANCE.
MANY LIKE THE CHRISTIAN HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONAL WILDERNESS EXPERIENCES (STRUGGLES)
1) SOME WITH ALCOHOL
2) SOME WITH DRUGS
3) SEXUAL IMMORALITY
4) LYING
5) COVETOUSNESS
OUT IN THE WILDERNESS IS AN EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER AND YOUR FAITH IN GOD WILL DETERMINE YOUR DELIVERANCE OR DESTINY.
