Wilderness Presence

"I'm in my wilderness era."
Have you heard someone say that?
But today I want to analyze what people mean when they say this and it actually means.
Sometimes people say this to identify a season where they're not really seeing God moving and working in their lives.
They use this sentence to represent a time of lack, a time of uncertainty.
But is that what it really means? And is that really true?
Let's take it to the Bible.
Exodus 13:21-22
When we take a look at this verse, does it really sound like a time where God wasn't showing up clearly?
Does it look like a time where the Israelites couldn't feel God's presence or see Him moving?
Not at all.
Some might even argue that God showed up more in the wilderness than He did in the Promised Land.
I mean He wasn't a fire by night and a cloud by day in the Promised Land, but only in the wilderness.
You see the problem is that the Israelites wanted to reach the destination so much, that they ignored God's presence in the wilderness.
They would wish to go back to Egypt.
That's another thing, a "wilderness season" is evidence of a deliverance season. It's a season of sustainance. A season where God builds you, prepares you for the Promised Land.
Many reach this time of answered prayers and fail to keep the blessings or to weather any storm that threatens these answered prayers, and that's because they fail to take the lessons from the time of deliverance and the time of wilderness.
Not only that you would learn that God can deliver you, but that God can sustain this deliverance.
Not only can God heal me from my trauma, but He can sustain my healing and build in me a renewed mind.
Not only can God deliver me from my sin, but He can be my righteousness.
Not only can God deliver from failure, but He can lead me in my success, from glory to glory.
Exodus 16:15-16
A wilderness season is NOT a time of lack and going without. It's a time of God providing miraculously. It's a time where you don't have it all figured out and no one else has the answers you need, but God does.
It's an opportunity for God to show you that He doesn't need the "right" circumstances to bless you, He doesn't need the "realistic" financial or social status to provide for you.
God doesn't need anything but you to receive what He has to give. 

"I'm in my wilderness season."
It only means that I'm in a season where God is showing up in ways that I couldn't have imagined in the captivity, couldn't have imagined in the Promised Land because I didn't need it.
It means I'm in a season where solutions are coming up from thin air.
It means I'm in a season where I have no direction but God is my shepherd.
It means I'm in a season of depending on God because I have to, so that I can learn to choose to when I have other options.
It means I'm in a season of gathering up my strength in Christ, of getting out of the captivity mentality, of building a renewed mind through Christ, of trusting God with everything in every moment.
I'm in a season where I have to ask God for everything because I have nothing of my own. I'm in a season where I have to ask God before I step outside to protect me, to cover me, to hold on to me.
I'm in a season where I have to keep my eyes towards heaven because there's nothing to look at around me.
I'm in a season of wilderness doesn't mean I'm in a season without God's immediate presence or help, it means I'm receiving it in a different way, in a more intense and intimate way than I thought I would. 

God is with you, always. Never to forsake you, never to leave you, never to fail you. Even now, in your wilderness season, He is with you.
In the morning, In the evening,
In your coming, In your going,
In your weeping, and in your rejoicing. He is with you; He is for you.
Psalm 121:8 states: "The Lord will guard you as you come and go, both now and forever." 

Let's pray.

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