Moses’ Error at Kadesh
1 Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.
2 Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. 3 And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord! 4 Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here? 5 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink.” 6 So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them.
7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8 “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” 9 So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as He commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?” 11 Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.
12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
13 This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, and He was hallowed among them.
Passage Through Edom Refused
14 Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us, 15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. 16 When we cried out to the Lord, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border. 17 Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’”
18 Then Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.”
19 So the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”
20 Then he said, “You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.
The children of Israel received liberty, came out from Egypt and journeyed through the wilderness till they came to Mount Sinai.
The next place where they journeyed to is a place called Kadesh Barnea (kay' dehssh-bahr nee' uh). The name means “consecrated.” This is the wilderness where the Hebrews stayed for most of thirty-eight years after leaving Mount Sinai and before entering the Promised Land. The Old Testament locates it between the Wilderness of Paran and the Wilderness of Zin (Numbers 13:3-21, Numbers 13:26).
Moses sent out the twelve spies into Canaan from Kadesh-Barnea (Numbers 13:3-21, Numbers 13:26). Joshua 14: 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in. When the 10 spies brought the evil report, the people complained against God. This resulted in them moving around the wilderness of Kadesh for 38 years until a generation had died.
The Hebrews also attempted their abortive southern penetration into Canaan from there (Numbers 13:26; Numbers 14:40-45). Kadesh-Barnea is mentioned the site where Abraham fought the Amalekites (Genesis 14:7) and as the southern border of the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:3). At Kadesh-Barnea, the Israelites were at the verge of breaking through but couldn’t make it for thirty-eight years. Deuteronomy 1:28
New King James Version (NKJV)
28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”
Deuteronomy 2:14
New King James Version (NKJV)
14 And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.
I call this the Kadesh Barnea syndrome. It is a syndrome of moving in circles and getting stuck on the verge of a breakthrough. This comes when we doubt God’s Word and ability. It comes when we listen to other voices rather that God’s voice. Poor self-image or esteem manifests at that point and it leads to unnecessary struggling.
The spirit of Kadesh Barnea, is the power behind wrong positioning, dashed hope and expectations, being in the wrong place for favor, vagabond motions, unpardonable errors, being singled out for punishment, beating about the bush, helpers becoming uncooperative, failure at the edge of breakthroughs, etc.
Lets read some scriptures and then pray!
Scripture Reading:
Deuteronomy 1:21
New King James Version (NKJV)
21 Look, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.’
Prayer Points
1. Every bitter water, flowing into my life, dry up, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every satanic prediction and expectation for my life, die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Thank the Lord for His ability to bring you into your land . Honor Him for He is always true to His promise.
4. Ask the Lord to forgive you from the sins of doubt and unbelief. Also, repent from listening and heeding to other voices, rather than His Voice.
5. Ask God to open your ears and that His voice will shake the Kadesh Barnea syndrome in all the areas of your life. Psalm 29:8
6. Command any stronghold of fear and intimidation that is limiting your life from moving forward to be broken.
7. Ask God to deliver from the fear of man. (This fear of what people will say, has been a killer of many destinies). Proverbs 29:25, Gal. 1:10
8. Command any spirit that wants to hold you down on the same spot in life, to be broken over your life. Any yoke of Kadesh Barnea syndrome, must be destroyed by the anointing of breakthrough and advancement.
9. Cancel and nullify any satanic decree or vow that is meant to hold you captive at the verge of a breakthrough in your life.
10. Declare that the spirit of faith and boldness will propel you to move forward into God’s promises.
11. O heavens, declare the glory of God over my life, in the name of Jesus.
12. If I am my own problem, deliver me now by Your mercy, O Lord, in Jesus’ name.
13. Every witchcraft bird that flies against me will not return alive, in Jesus’ name.
14. My brain, become a generator of prosperity, in the name of Jesus.
15. I receive the baptism of favor, in the name of Jesus.
16. Thou yoke of Kadesh-Barnea, be broken in my life, in the name of Jesus.
17. Every vehicle of stagnancy, I kill you today, in the name of Jesus.
18. Every stronghold binding me with stagnancy, die, in the name of Jesus.
19. Thou power of failure, frustration and backwardness, die, in the name of Jesus.
20. Power to find my bearing in the journey of life, fall upon me now, in Jesus’ name.
21. Thou desert arrow fired into my destiny, backfire, in the name of Jesus.
22. I shall get to my destiny at the appointed time, in the name of Jesus.
23. My Father, instruct and teach me in the way I should go, in the name of Jesus.
24. I withdraw my name from the book of born-for-nothing, in the name of Jesus.
25. Holy Spirit cut every umbilical cord still attached to Satan, in the name of Jesus.
26. Every bondage of circular spirits, break, in the name of Jesus.
27. Every satanic agenda for my progress, die, in the name of Jesus.
28. Every witchcraft legislations against my advancement, die, in the name of Jesus.
29. Every power prolonging my stay in the wilderness, die, in the name of Jesus.
30. I shall not take longer journey to my inheritance, in the name of Jesus.
31. The Lord will make a straight path for my feet and establish my goings this year, in Jesus name.
32. I raise the standard of the blood of Jesus against every spirit of Kadesh Barnea in my life, in Jesus name.
33. Thou chain of darkness holding me down in the same spot for years, die, in the name of Jesus.
34. I bury every failure, frustrations, backwardness, and sickness, in Jesus’ name.
35. Thou power of failure at the edge of success, die, in the name of Jesus.
36. Every satanic eye monitoring my success and progress, receive blindness, in the name of Jesus.
37. Every gathering against my success, scatter by fire, in the name of Jesus.
38. Every mark of failure at the edge of success, be wiped off by the blood of Jesus.
39. Every enemy of the Believer’s Evangelical Fellowship Int’l and pastor Tunmishe, scatter unto desolation, in the name of Jesus.
40. Oh God arise and uproot and set ablaze anything You did not plant inside the Believer’s Evangelical Fellowship Int’l.
41. Let the fire of revival fall upon the Believer’s Evangelical Fellowship Int’l, in the name of Jesus.
