Lost In The Wilderness

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After Moses led his people through the parted Red Sea, the people were all enthusiastic and prepared for a journey to their Land of Milk and Honey. God had promised them great blessings if they would only trust and follow him.

Their journey should have taken them only three months. The journey was difficult, but God had promised that he would care for them and supply their every need. After about a month of travel they were about a third of the way to their destination and they grew impatient. They told Moses that they were better off back in Egypt. They complained and lost their trust and faith in God.

At first this hurt God, but, his love prevailed and he made every attempt to give them what they wanted. But, it wasn’t enough and as the complaining continued, his hurt turned to anger. God decided to lead them through the wilderness, almost in circles, until the people decided to once again trust Him. That didn’t happen and God ended up killing them off and giving their blessing to the next generation.

There are people today, who are lost in the wilderness. God had made a promise to them, but they grew impatient, and angry waiting for Him to move in their lives. And, what God is doing, is leading them in circles because they have lost their trust and faith in Him. They have grown weary from the trials God has been putting them through. Their impatience will delay or cause them to loose their blessing. God's purpose for putting them in the wilderness is to allow them to grow and become stronger. It is a consecretory period. What happens is that when they become impatient and loose their faith and trust, their growth stops. They are so busy complaining, they are so busy crying, they are so busy fighting, they are so busy strugleing to get out of what they are in, they loose focus on God. God is not going to bless them until their consecration is complete. And consecration is growth. It is emotional and spiritual growth. If your growth stops, you will be stuck in the wilderness until you die.

Are you one of those people, traveling in circles and your life going nowhere? Are you angry at God for what you have had to go through? If you believe that you are, say the prayer below and ask God to forgive you for your impatience and to move in your life.

Most Heavenly Father, Please forgive me for growing impatient while waiting for you to move in my life. If I have been angry with you please forgive me, for it was only out of frustration. I start over today, and place my complete trust in you. I re-affirm my complete faith in your desire and ability to care for me, and supply my every need. Please fill me with Your Spirit so that I may hear your voice and make your will, my will. Please make your will for me and my life obvious to me so that I may wait patiently for my blessing. Please burn any anger out of me so that I may replace it with love. Please move quickly in my life so that I may give You Glory, and share Your goodness with all. Thank You in advance for the blessing you have for me and my family. I pray this in The Name of Jesus, to The Father, Amen!

 

[mmreed]

wonderful prayer!

 

[tapero]

We do the same things that they used to do. We grumble like you said, and there is one major difference in our lives now and that is Christ, who does not hold any offences against us. There is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. We also have the Holy Spirit and they did not.

I really liked your story and your prayer was amazing!

God bless you. Tapero

 

[UnitynLove]

The people of the nation of Israel wandered around in the desert for forty years making what was actually an eleven-day journey. Why? Was it their enemies, their circumstances, or the trials along the way? Or was something entirely different preventing them from arriving at their destination?
As I pondered this situation, God gave me a powerful revelation that has helped me personally and helped thousands of others. The Lord revealed to me that the Israelites spent forty years in the desert making an eleven-day trip because they had a "wilderness mentality."
We really shouldn't look at the Israelites with such astonishment because most of us do the same thing they did. We keep going around and around the same mountains instead of making progress. It takes us years to experience victory over something that could and should have been dealt with quickly and put behind us. God showed me that "wilderness mentalities" are wrong mindsets These wilderness mentalities are what kept the Israelites in the desert for so long.
We can have right mindsets or wrong mindsets. The right ones benefit us, and the wrong ones hurt us and hinder our progress. Colossians 3:2 teaches us to set our minds and keep them set. We need our minds set in the right direction. Wrong mindsets not only affect our circumstances, but they also affect our inner life.
There was a time when my circumstances were not bad, but I could not enjoy anything in my life because my mind was "in the desert." Dave and I had a nice home, three lovely children, good jobs, and enough money to live comfortably. However, I could not enjoy our blessings because I had several wilderness mentalities that had me trapped in the desert.
Some people see things negatively because they have experienced unhappy circumstances all their lives and can't imagine anything getting any better. Then there are those who see everything as bad and negative simply because that is the way they feel on the inside. Whatever its cause, a negative outlook leaves a person miserable and unable to make any progress toward the Promised Land.
God had called the Children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt to go to the land He had promised to give them as a perpetual inheritance—the land that flowed with milk and honey and every good thing they could imagine. It was a land where there would be no shortage of anything they needed—a land of prosperity in every realm of their existence. Most of the generation that the Lord called out of Egypt never entered into the Promised Land, instead, they died in the desert. To me, this is one of the saddest things that can happen to someone—to have so much available and yet never be able to enjoy it.
I was one of those people for many years of my life. I was on my way to the Promised Land (heaven), but I was not enjoying the trip. My mind was in the desert, and I was dying in the wilderness. My wilderness mentality, or wrong ways of thinking, was keeping me from dealing with those areas of life God was wanting to touch and redeem. I was stuck...going around and around the same mountain. But thank God for His mercy. He showed me the way out of the desert! He helped me identify and change those wrong mindsets. Today, my mind is renewed. I have a new way of thinking and I've been rescued from the desert. What God did for me, He can certainly do for you. Ask Him today to show you your wilderness mentalities, and ask Him to help you make the necessary changes. He can deliver your mind from the desert and help you enjoy the journey to the Promised Land!