Take Hold Of God’s Promise
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A wilderness is a place, like I said last week, between places where God teaches you things that you need to know for where you’re going. The wilderness. The wilderness is the place where God gets you ready for what he has next for you. The wilderness, where he brings you manna to your tent every morning because you don’t have farmland yet.
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The wilderness, where he brings you water out of a rock, and there’s not even a knob for the faucet. It just starts flowing out. The wilderness. There are wonderful things about the wilderness. There are wonderful things about loneliness. When you’re lonely, God will feel closer to you, if you’ll call on him, than when you’re really busy.
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There are wonderful things about when people tell you no, because when people tell you no, God has this way of putting a yes in your spirit that you can’t even explain. It’s a wonderful thing about certain tears we cry, because God dries them, and you feel his touch like you never did before.
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It’s a wonderful thing sometimes about when you’ve done all you can do, and you can’t figure anything out, and God just says, “I’ve got this one.” “Watch this manna. Open your tent. Every morning it’s going to be there, brand-new mercies with every rising of the sun.” It’s a wonderful thing. Have you ever been fed by the hand of God, where God just dropped something off for you, and you said, “Oh, this is wonderful.
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I didn’t even know how, but God did that for me. I didn’t even know that person. They paid for my gas at the pump. I didn’t even know that person. They stopped me and encouraged me.” It’s some wonderful things that happen in the wilderness. God just drops stuff on you in the wilderness. God just does stuff for you in the wilderness.
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God just makes sure you have clothes to wear in the wilderness. You don’t outgrow it. It just keeps stretching with you in the wilderness. He makes sure your feet don’t swell in the wilderness. It is a place of supernatural provision. But if you stay there too long, you will become passive, waiting for a promise that God wants to give you the power to possess by faith.