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"Take care, brethren, lest there should be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, in falling away from the Living God." Heb 3:23



A WILDERNESS OF THE EXACT OPPOSITE!



In the book "The Journey" by Rick Joyner he tells how the Israelites were promised a "land flowing with milk and honey". Like our lives today, between the place where we receive the promise of God and the Promised Land (the fulfillment of the promise), there is usually going to be a wilderness that is the exact OPPOSITE of what we have been promised. A place that is going to require faith.



God’s promise to Israel was clear that He would bring them to "a land flowing with milk and honey" (Exod. 3:8). Then, for the first three days of their journey toward that land, they did not even have water to drink. Try to comprehend just how great this trial was. Have you ever gone without any liquids for just one day? Think what it would be like for three days, which takes a person to the limits of what the human body can endure. Then think about doing this in the wilderness with two million people kicking dust in your face! This was a trial.Then, when they finally came to a well and their hopes rose to the very heights, the waters were bitter!


When disappointment results in complaining, the destroyer of our faith is released and much is lost. The wilderness is meant to test our faith. The first lesson in the wilderness we must learn is that complaining is the language of unbelief! Complaining is a telltale sign of a hardened, unbelieving heart. (Heb 3:7-13) Faith moves God. Unbelief provokes Him and is a never-ending circle in the desert. We will not attain the promises of God with unbelief in our hearts. PRAISE is the language of faith! Do it!