Feel Alone in a Desert?

Christians don’t have to be swept along by tides of emotion, because we’ve been given God’s Power to perform His Will in our lives.
* “For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.”Romans 8:2

When we make wrong, emotional choices, our hearts become “covered over” and the fountain of living water gets blocked.
When God’s Love is no longer motivating our actions, our self-life takes control!!!!!!!
*”Their heart is covered with fat…”Psalm 119:70

The war that goes on between the power of God and the power of sin is not fought in our hearts, but in our souls and bodies.
“For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin.” Romans 7:23

“I have become an alien in a foreign land.” Exodus 2:22
* God’s preparation of a leader involves training, extended times of waiting, pain, rejection, and isolation. Are you ready to sign up?

Moses was brought up in Pharaoh’s court. He had the very best of everything-education, clothing, food, and personal care.
But there came a time when the man God would use to free an entire people from slavery was going to have to learn to be the leader God wanted.
At age 40, when most of us want to be thinking about winding down instead of beginning a new career, Moses was forced to flee to the desert.

Like Joseph and Abraham, Moses had to endure some difficult years of preparation that first involved removal from his current situation.
He went from notoriety to obscurity, *from limitless resources to no resources,
* from activity and action to inactivity and solitude.
* And, most importantly, waiting. And waiting. And waiting. He probably thought he would die in the land of Midian.

Then one day, a full 40 years from the day he arrived, God appeared to Moses in a burning bush. Everything changed. God said, “It is time.”
The years had seasoned the vessel to prepare him to accomplish the work.

God is preparing many  believers today. The circumstances may be different. The time frames may not be quite as long.
But the characteristics of the training are still the same. Do not try to shortcut the desert time of God. It only leads to cul-de-sacs, which force you to revisit the lessons you are meant to learn.

Embrace them, so that He can use your life for something extraordinary.

We look at our situations and conclude based on the circumstances that reality must be this way. But God says, “No, you do not see what I see or what I know or what I am doing. The situation is very different than what you are perceiving.”

Be careful not to draw conclusions about your situation that may not be based on truth. God always has a plan for His servants that we may not know about. Ask God to give you His perception of the situation, not yours.

Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant (2 Corinthians 3:4-6a).

Be aware that stagnation is a weapon formed against you.  Rise up in absolute resistance to defeat this attack.  Stir yourself up to greater freedom in the Spirit.  This is time of a new order of things, and you must make yourself ready to receive the new wine of revelation for the days ahead.  Make yourself a new wine skin through your flexibility to move with the flow of the Lord’s  Spirit and your willingness to receive this great refreshment.

Mark 2:22 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”
*Jesus was the new wine, the old ways weren’t for him it shows us to remove the old and take on the new.
* When you look at the death of Christ, what happens?
*Does your joy really come from translating this awesome divine work into a boost for self-esteem?
***Or are you drawn up out of yourself and filled with wonder and reverence and worship that here in the death of Jesus is the deepest, clearest declaration of the infinite esteem of God for his glory and for his Son?

Here is a great objective foundation for the full assurance of hope: the forgiveness of sins is grounded, finally, not in my finite worth or work, but in the infinite worth of the righteousness of God.

Grant to me, Lord, that I may understand the truth counting on You. Help me to discover Your promises to change and heal and restore and forgive.   I thank you Lord that when I feel as if my prayers are not adequate and I push and pray anyway, you are always near. I thank you Lord that you hear me. I thank you Lord that my prayers don’t hit the ceiling
and bounce back, but they reach into the heavens and come to your throne of grace and mercy. I thank you Lord that you hear my prayers you dry my tears in the desert and you bring me peace.
In Jesus name, Amen