The Wilderness: God, Where Are You?! [FULL SERMON] — John Bevere

would you be seated and watch this you want to know how gold is purified it's ground down thrown into a furnace down by 2000 degree fire the heat increases impurities begin to surface they never saw before they appear scrape away these impurities and what are you left with fine pure gold trials you face as a human being are the furnace designed to remove the impurities in it so the only thing that remains is what was placed at the core of us God's nature and character some of you are in the furnace right now all you see is the fire all you feel is the heat each day feels like a struggle and you want to give up you want to hit the snooze button you want to give up on that marriage you want to quit that job take the easy way out you weren't created for easy you were created for victory when the fire survive for Raging keep going always remember the other side of pain on the other side of trial is your promise so I I just want to open up and and share with you a little bit of my background I actually was raised in church my parents took me every single weekend but I had absolutely and I mean absolutely no relationship with God it was quite obvious because in high school and college people were witnessing to me like crazy I remember one guy came and shared with me about Jesus for two hours in my freshman year at Purdue University and he told me later after I got saved he said he literally walked out of my room in tears because I was clueless to what he was saying but it wasn't until my sophomore year in my fraternity Athletics is a big part of my background I played the US USTA circuit and Tennis I played Junior Davis Cup I played for pretty University so I really didn't pay much attention to anybody unless they were an athlete God knew it so one of the best athletes in the state of Indiana happened to live in my fraternity he came up to my room and shared campus Crusade four spiritual laws with me and I will never ever forget while he was sharing with me that night all of a sudden I realized that God loved me uniquely that he cared for me deeply that he wanted a relationship with me that he wanted to make promises to me as any good parent would make to their child and keep them all this started adding up and my heart just opened and and I remember that night when I received Jesus Christ as my Lord everything changed I mean what girls Athletics uh going to church everything couldn't Feel Jesus literally filled that void but the thing that stood out to me was his presence that's what was amazing to me that I'd never experienced in church before was his presence and um I I you know I'm not a guy that cries you know athletes are trained not to do that right but I'm finding myself crying you know all the time I mean I I remember a storm was forming in the distance and and it was ominous and I remember just tearing up going my dad created all this right and and and and man did he answered prayers uniquely and quickly uh I remember one time my cassette player you you might want to Google it when you go home it is prehistoric but uh it it broke and and I'm a broke college student right I don't I don't have money to fix my cassette player I don't have money for hot dogs for my date you know and um I remember I thought Jesus you said lay hands on the sick and I'll recover my cassette player's sick and so I laid hands on it I remember putting it and God is my witness my cassette player started working and it were it never it never broke again and so you know I'm like this is Christianity well then all of a sudden you know his presence started seeming a little more Elusive and it seemed like instead of going towards the promises he was making me I was going away from the promises he was making me in fact it seemed like nothing was going right in my life and the overarching question that kept coming up in my heart was this God where are you does anybody know what I'm talking about at all or am I just preaching way over people's heads right now have you ever cried that out and said God where are you well there there there was there there was a three-step pathway I didn't understand you know how many of you know that God has a Destiny for all of us and and you really I mean how can you be a Christian and not understand that right I mean Psalm 139 says every day of my life was recorded in a book before a single day of my life began right the steps of a good man a good woman are ordered of the lord well God's Got A three-step pathway to get us to our destiny and that three-step pathway is so fundamental the first thing that he does with us is he he'll give us a glimpse he'll show us where we're going he gives us a promise right um I I we with Joseph it was a dream a couple dreams with Jeremiah it's a word with David the senior Prophet came and said where you were going I I actually have a file folder in my credenza right behind my desk and in that file folder it's all the prophetic words that have been given to me that have really been from heaven and there's one dated July 1985. excuse me July 1981 and there were things spoken over me in that prophetic word that I didn't start fulfilling until I was in my 50s I mean crazy right and so God will give you a glimpse now somebody's probably sitting there thinking well you know wait a minute John um God hasn't given me a glimpse like that well let me get a little tough for a second okay the Bible says that God rewards those who diligently seek Him in faith it does not say God rewards those who casually seek Him and wonder in doubt so you might want to check up on your seeking level okay we'll go on from there that really got a good response so um once he makes once he gives you that Glimpse through the promise then the process begins everybody say the process now what's the process I've affectionately turned the process as the Wilderness or refining why is the process important because it gives you the character to handle the promise once it's fulfilled and once you successfully navigate the process then what happens then comes the promotion and that is the fulfilled promise now Peter writes about this in his book in First Peter First Peter chapter one the first five verses he talks about our inheritance in heaven that's undefiled and I love the apostles because they don't spend a lot of time talking about heaven okay why because we're in the Here and Now right so he talks about it quickly and then he goes on to this in verse six he says in this you greatly rejoice though now for a little while now everybody's a little while now a little while to God is a little different than a little while to us if I say to you I'm going to be here to your house in a little while you're thinking 10-15 minutes right Peter writes in a second book the same guy writes a day with the Lord is a thousand of our years so me with the engineering mind you know I was trained as an engineer I thought well if a day with God is a thousand of our years what's an hour to God and I divided It Out by 24 and found out that one hour to God is 42.6 years so a little while seven or eight years that's 15 minutes okay aren't you glad you came all the way out fought the traffic on Wednesday night just to hear that okay even though now for a little while everybody say a little while if need be uh let me Enlighten you the need is there you have been grieved and the word grieve means greatly distressed by various trials these trials will show that your faith is genuine I love that you don't have ingenuine or counterfeit faith it is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold though your faith is far more precious than gold so around that time period that I was talking to you about you know Lisa and I actually lived here in Dallas at that time um we were we were both attending a very very large church here in the Metroplex area and uh we're probably one of the best known churches in America we had 450 paid staff members at one time and um our church didn't talk a lot about character we didn't talk a lot about godliness about purity about Holiness we we talked about miracles about faith about believing God about being successful in life and and and and so I'm out praying one night Lisa and I lived in an apartment here in Dallas and there's a field by the by the I think it was a construction area that no buildings were built yet and I used to go out there and pray a lot and one night it's late at night and I'm praying and God speaks to me so clearly and the Holy Spirit said to me he said son I'm going to begin to teach you how to deny yourself take up your cross and follow me I'm going to begin to work a work of Holiness in your life now you have to understand that was completely foreign to me okay Catholic boy gets saved and now he's at a church that doesn't talk about these things I'm like I was so excited I ran back to my apartment I said babe babe God spoke to me and she said what'd he say I said he's going to begin to do a work of Holiness in my life I said so all the excesses in my life they're going to go all the excessive food I eat because food was an idol back then I ate when I wasn't even hungry I said oh the TV I watch all the sports on TV he's going just like he's gonna he's gonna clean it all up so you know what happened the next three months I ate twice as much as what I normally ate I watched twice as much TV I watched twice as much sports on TV so after three months of this I go back out to that same field this time it's early in the morning I said God I don't understand this you said you were going to make me holy I am like twice as fleshly so the Holy Spirit speaks to me that morning and said well son that's because you've been doing it your way he said Holiness is not a work of your flesh it's a product of my grace he said now I'm going to begin to do it my way now I had no idea what he was talking about but over this next six months I started going through trials like I had never faced before and they were not self-inflicted trials you know what I mean you know what self-inflicted trials are that's when you're doing stupid things and you said I'm under that job no you're not on a trial you've inflicted yourself we're not we're not talking about that we're talking about I'm doing the right things and all the wrong things are happening they're really wrong like wrong things I've never faced before right and I remember during the six-month time period I am a terror to live with okay I am like angry at Lisa for the stupidest things I'm irritated by my nine month old son I'm angry with my pastor because he's not recognizing me I'm really upset with my friends because they're not giving me the sympathy I think I should get I'm mad at the people I'm working with and I mean I mean it's bad so after six months of this mess and it's really bad okay I I go back out of that same field I said God where's all this anger and bitterness coming from I I wasn't even this angry in This Bitter before I got saved what do I bind what do I cast out and that's when the Holy Spirit said to me he said Son you don't cast out flesh you crucify it so then I remember I I had this 14 karat gold wedding ring on at least they gave me this one on our 25th so it's different but you know this 14 karat yellow gold ring you know he he he says son your your ring look at your ring he said does it look like pure gold I said yeah it looks like pure gold now you gotta understand 14 karat means 14 Parts out of 24 Parts is gold 10 parts out of 24 Parts is impurities copper zinc nickel other metals he says look like pure gold I said yeah it looks like pure gold I said what happens if you put it in a furnace and heat it up a couple thousand degrees I said well it liquefies he said then what happens I said well the impurities which are the lighter metals because Gold's heavier as they come to the surface he said they appear right I said yeah they appear he said they were in there the whole time weren't they I said yeah he said but you didn't see them did you no he said you didn't see him till you until it went to the furnace he said all this anger and bitterness it's always been in there invisible to you but visible to me he said now I have permitted you to come into the furnace of affliction so you could see these things he said now what you do with them will determine your future you can keep blaming your pastor your wife your friends and it'll all go right back down and we got to start this process all over he said or you can own it and if you own it and you repent of it I'll take my Ladle and skim it right out of your life you got to understand God really respects our right to choose quiet on that one I remember during this time period you know Jeremiah makes a statement in Jeremiah I think it's 15 chapter 15 he says why is my pain Perpetual I understand that statement I lived in pain I got up I woke up in the mornings I was in pain I went to the office I was in pain I ate lunch I was in pain I'd come home in pain I would live in pain I'd go to bed in pain I'd wake up in pain again and I remember one day it got so bad I closed the the door in my office and I I'll never forget this I just hung my head in between the corner and my hands were just draping like this I said God why do I hurt so bad inside so this pain is unbearable why do I hurt so bad he said son because you're dying he said there's always pain and death he said Son do you want to know how you're going to know when you're dead I said yeah how will I know when I'm dead he said when you don't hurt anymore because he said deaf people don't hurt dead people don't have any pain I said God would you please kill me quick see the time period was 1984 1985 1986 and you have to understand you know I had all these promises remember I told you the promise the process the promotion right had all these promises and his promises all almost all of them stay that I'd preach the gospel all over the world and I thought God it's 1984. Jesus is Coming Back in 88 I have got to get out there and do this but you know if God would have allowed me to do that I would have destroyed a lot of lives you know if you look at Joseph how many of you know Joseph in the Bible come on everybody should know Joseph right I mean it has to be one of my favorite characters in the Old Testament Joseph is this young man that God gives him these dreams right of great leadership and he shows them clearly that one day he will be a leader and his brothers will even be under his leadership right but when Joseph shows up in Genesis 37 the very first verse you know what it says he was telling his dad about the bad things his brothers were doing so he's a tattletale and then if you go a couple verses later like six more verses you know what it says he's bragging about his dreams and he's talking down to his brothers so let me list this out make this really really clear when Joseph shows up we got a bragger we got a tattletail and we got somebody who talks down to people so God puts Joseph into a leadership position right there you know what you got a very narcissistic insecure leader somebody's going to destroy lives so God says we need a little work done in This Boy's Life now God doesn't author this he permits it see you've got to understand God you know he he knows the end from the beginning because he's not bound by time we're bound to time I can tell you everything that happened yesterday I can't tell you much of what's going to happen tomorrow unless God shows me right because we're Bound by time but God knows what these boys are going to do his brothers right so he knows they're going to he what they're going to sell him into slavery so what do they do they throw them into a pit for those of you that don't know pit stands for preachers in training by the way and and he sold as a slave and he's brought down to the most powerful nation in the world and he sold into one of the officer of the King's house in Egypt right potiphar and yeah we in the Western World do not understand what his brothers did to him okay what his brothers did to him was worse than killing him because back in those days it was everything for a young man to receive his father's name and inheritance foreign I mean God Appears to Abraham says I'm your reward and Abraham's response is kind of like big deal I don't have an heir nobody's going to carry my name on and so back in those days if you're if you're a Slave you're going to work the rest of your life to build somebody else's name and Heritage their legacy the woman you marry will build build their legacy your children will build other people's Legacy now it's one thing to be born a slave it is a completely different thing to be born the air of a very wealthy man and have it all Stripped Away from you by your own Brothers so after six months a year all hope of a father's rescue is gone my dad thinks I'm dead he's 10 years he's a slave would you think about how long 10 years is go back 10 years it's a long time right now God is blessing him because God always blesses but underneath the surface something much worse is going on and that is this the officer's wife gets the hots for Joseph and she doesn't approaching him once or twice the Bible says she approaches him every day now I want you to stop and think about this this woman is probably dressed in the best scented in the best and probably has a seducing Spirit up their eyeballs and she's she's approaching him every day for sex okay now you're not thinking this through he doesn't have a connect group a small group he doesn't have podcasts to listen to he's not even looking at Twitter he's got no pastor and yet every day I love how this guy fears God every day he's like no see a lot of people don't get the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord is not to be scared of God how can you be intimate with somebody you're scared of the fear of the Lord is to be terrified to be away from him Paul tell us about the fear of the Lord when he writes to the Philippian Church now this is Paul writing to the Philippians but it's really God speaking to us and you know what he said to the Philippian Church Philippians 2 15 somewhere around there he says as you have always obeyed in my presence even now much more obey in my absence work out your salvation with fear and trembling see it's one thing to obey God when you're in an atmosphere like this it's easy Thursday night when your child's throwing up all night long and you got the presentation of your life in front of the board the next morning or or what about what about when you're at work and you're in your dream job and somebody gossips about you and totally Slanders and tells lies about you and you get fired are you still going to obey God are you going to be a little passive aggressive like why should I obey you what have you done for me sure as quiet in this Presbyterian church right now but Joseph every day now think about it 10 years you've had your heritage stripped from you you're not the bad one your brothers are they're enjoying all the wealth of your great grand of your grandfather Abraham great grandfather excuse me you're working to build somebody else's Legacy 10 years and This Woman's approaching you and she's you know she knows what she's doing finally they're alone in the house one day right and This Woman's got it planned she puts on the right outfit she got some legs showing out that slit of that nothing she had a little cleavage showing and she Nestles up to him and got that perfume on and she goes I'm Yours nobody's here and he does exactly what the word of God says he flees sexual immorality she's got a hold of his robe His Garment he runs that robe tears he's naked she's scorned woman her scorn turns into her lust turns into hate and now she accuses him of rape the very thing he ran from so he gets thrown into the dungeon now I just preached in Louisiana a couple months ago largest prison in the United States called angolans in South East Louisiana 6 200 inmates they're all in there 20 years to life no pearl can I tell you that prison was a country club compared to the Middle Eastern dungeons I've been in now let me tell you we don't get what a middle eastern dungeon is Middle Eastern dungeons were usually cisterns that were dried up Underground the average height of a middle eastern dungeon the cistern is four feet you have no sunshine it's damn it's bedrock so get picture here there's no mattress there's no pillow there's no running water do you understand you were living in your waist you throw up you live in it nobody comes in and cleans it up you don't have a gym or a basketball goal you don't have a television you don't have any Sunshine coming in the Bible says they hurt his feet with Fetters they laid them in Chains put it up for me until the time that his personal promise came to pass the word of the Lord tested him amazing you know what they did in those dungeons they gave you what's called the bread of Affliction what's the bread of affliction they don't want you to die it's too easy so they give you just enough bread and just enough water to keep you alive so then God brings the greatest test to Joseph what's the greatest test he brings two guys that had a dreams a butler and a baker you know the story right they want an interpretation of their dreams what's the test listen can Joseph Proclaim to them the faithfulness of God when he's not seen one shred of evidence of it in his own life in 10 years think about it God says you're going to be a leader and your brothers will be under your leadership he's gone from pitt to slavery to dungeon can he Proclaim to them the faithfulness of God when he hasn't seen any evidence of it in his own life in 10 years Joseph would have been like many of us you had dreams last night leave me alone dreams don't come true I had a dream once if you would have done that he would have died in the dungeon saying God is it not faithful and God does not keep his promises when the reality is God is faithful and God does keep his promises he passed the test he obeys this guy obeys every time he obeys God his life gets worse do you understand this all he does is proclaim the dream he gets the pit in slavery all he does is flee sexual immorality he obeys the word of God and he gets the dungeon now he obeys he proclaims the faithfulness of God and the butler forgets him and he's in there two more years two more years living in his waist his urine all that stuff okay he's he's underground sister in this dungeon two more years and then the King has a dream the butler goes oh my gosh I forgot that guy he gets restored seven years of plenty two years of famine add up the years 19 years later here comes the brothers and some of us are upset when our Dream isn't fulfilled in 18 months do you know what Joseph's life shows us shows us this no man no woman no child no Organization no demon can ever get you out of your destiny Joseph's brother said we're going to destroy we will kill him and we'll see what becomes of his dream and God says oh yeah you're going to be the very ones that fulfill his dream the only one that can get you out of your destiny is you how Paul tells us First Corinthians 10 you got Israel God brings them into their refining to the desert you know read your Bible God only intended them to be there one year they ended up being there for 40 years which tells me you can't shorten your refining time but you sure can lengthen it good preaching amen thank you so much [Applause] people to us and there are five things that kept them from their Destiny isn't this amazing Moses pastored a three million church only two adults in his entire congregation fulfilled their destiny think about that one for a few hours your life's work two people fulfilled their destiny okay you're going past the way you can go to this guy five things Moses lists or excuse me the Paul list that kept them from their Destiny number one idolatry number two sexual immorality number three tempting Christ number four lusting after evil things number five complaining what whoa whoa one day I'm reading this and I go what what you know when I was a kid my sister watched Sesame Street it wasn't on when I was a kid when she was a kid this is my baby sister and they had this song Do you ever remember the song that Sesame Street one of these things just doesn't belong here remember and they're singing a song and they get the picture of the car a picture of a bicycle picture of a horse and a picture of an alligator well come on you're bright Texans which one doesn't belong to Alligator you ride the other three that done and I'm looking at this I'm going complaining has no place in this list this is wrong I mean I'm talking to I'm like this is wrong complaining in a list with idolatry and tempting Christ and sexual immorality and holy spirit said to me he said complaining is a very serious sin I said okay I don't get it I need understanding he said Son do you know what complain he says to me I said no complaining says to me son God I don't like what you're doing in my life and if I were you I'd do this totally different he said it's an absolute disrespect for my my person and my ways it's a complete lack of the fear of the god all of a sudden man I saw it I went to Lisa I said Lisa complaining serious so there's four things we discipline our kids for right I said we're going to add it it falls under Rebellion you know our kids got disciplined they hit their brothers they spoke disrespectly if they rebelled and if they lied I said complaining falls under Rebellion so we discipline our kids rebellion and I got to the point where I was like so proud of fact that I didn't complain right and one day I'm on this four day fast and the Holy Spirit said I just woke up and the Holy Spirit said I hear the complaining in your heart I didn't get out of bed that's more I rolled to my knees I was like God forgive me you know do you know the prophet do you know the prophet Malachi saw the last days and do you know he said there's going to be three kinds of people on the Earth there's gonna be three groups of people number one Christians who complain number two Christians who fear God and number three unbelievers do you know that he's yeah let me read it to you you'll like this if I can find it okay God says this is this is the prophet Malachi God's speaking through him you complainers these are complaining Christians got a member he doesn't have our terminology so he's going to speak in his day's terminology you complainers have spoken hard rude words to me this is God saying this you asked when did we ever do that listen to what God said to him when you complainers said it doesn't pay to serve God what did we ever get out of it see if Joseph would have said what am I getting out of obeying God he would have stopped this is what a lot of people do they got this attitude of why should I obey you God every time I obey you things don't work out for me I get fired from my job I lose my wife I lose my kids I lose my you know are you here are you just listening real good okay I thought people in the South like shouted yeah amen I know I'm having fun with you it doesn't pay to serve God what did we ever get out of it when we obey him when we did what he said what difference did it make oh my gosh does that sound familiar from now on we'll call the unbelievers blessed for those who do evil they get rich and those who dare God to punish him they don't suffer any harm than those whose lives feared God got together and talked it over God saw that they were doing and listened in a book was open in God's presence and minutes were taken of the meaning of the names of the God fears written down God says they're mine all mine they'll get special treatment that gets my attention when I go into action I'll treat them the same with the same consideration and kindness the parents give the child who honors them question is you have to ask yourself and be honest are you going to be a complainer are you going to be one who fears God this is what you got to ask yourself see because let me tell you you feel abandoned I would imagine Joseph felt a little abandoned by God watch this video everybody has a hero okay mine's my dad yes since mom died it's only been us he has a way of filling my life with colors [Music] that one sometimes I don't understand his advice but I trust him and what always brought us together was our love for running one day I'll be faster than him and when I am I'm gonna win every marathon in the world or at least that was my plan I'm losing my sight real quick read to me the lowest level that you can see what is called is interocular melanoma eye cancer fortunately you will lose your vision that was the day my father disappeared dad run champ I thought he would always be there for me I guess I was wrong that where are you you abandoned me [Music] where are you Dad where did you go do you not love me anymore am I still beautiful are you no longer proud of me how could you leave me when I need you the most dad dad why did you leave me Abby thinks I've left her [Music] and as much as it pains me to hear that she's right I've left her best that we can do is so that cosmetically she does it's my girl that's my girl it's my little girl there's a poor group s I've left her to realize she's more courageous than she ever imagined I've left her to discover how beautiful she is from the inside out [Music] I've left her to challenge herself in ways she never considered [Music] have left her to discover how strong she really is um happy it's me Dad it's me baby why did you leave me I was right here I was always here I was always here baby No One Believes In you more than I do [Music] foreign [Music] think about how far you've come here my dad says he gave me what I needed not what I wanted you ready folks what we're seeing here is amazing this is a testament of true love is allowing someone to see their true worth and beauty I used to think my dreams were over I thought I'd never run again and even though I can't see my dad I know he's guiding me the entire way [Applause] of course this video is not showing that her dad did anything to her it's showing what he did for her I think I want you to think of this video in the light of job's words job went through something very similar that Joseph went through job made the statement he said look I go forward but he God is not there can we can we put it up on the screen guys look I go forward but he God is Not There and backward but I cannot perceive him now look at this when he works so he's working on job's path on the left hand I cannot Behold Him see that Dad was working on her behalf so that she could discover how strong she was when he works on the left hand I cannot behold him when he turns the right hand I cannot see him but he knows where I'm going why he's the one that planned it God says I'll never leave you never forsake you it's just that job couldn't perceive him even though God was working on his behalf job couldn't perceive him working on his behalf just as she couldn't he knows where I'm going and when he tests me why do we have a problem with tests it's midterms and finals right gave us all you know what they call that pstd or whatever it is over tests but can I say this I just flew over the Atlantic Ocean a few weeks ago so glad that pilot passed the test because he and I didn't end up at the bottom of the ocean I mean think about it what's in you God said I brought you into this Wilderness to Humble you and test you so you could know what's in your heart he knows what's in your heart you need to find out what's in your heart good preaching amen thank you so much and when he tests me now look at this I will come out pure gold pure gold do you know that pure gold is actually tender soft pliable did you know that 14 karat gold is very hard and brittle if you look at gold it's got a counterparts called brass brass looks like pure gold but brash tarnishes because of the atmosphere you understand when you go through testing you're no longer tarnished by the atmosphere of the world pure gold if you look at the streets the streets of Heaven are the purest goal you can see right through them like glass do you understand when you come out as pure gold they don't see you they see the treasure in you we need to see so much more Jesus in the church right now what was job's response the same as Joseph they both did the same thing listen to what he said for I've stayed on God's paths I have followed his ways and not turned aside he wasn't passive aggressive I have not departed from his commands but I have treasured his words more than my daily food do you know the most recent statistics I've got at the recent polls this is not a Barna this is a secular I think it was the Gallup poll 15 to 25 year olds right now the average time they spend in front of a screen is 53.7 hours a week how much time they spend in the word they can sure tell you what everybody's saying on Instagram and and Twitter are you are you with me see here's the deal here's the deal the word of God is food to our spirit right right so do an experiment go four months eat one meal on Sunday make sure it's a light one and then once a month you get a meal on Wednesday night you can pick first second or third or fourth Wednesday night whatever you want do this for four months and tell me how much strength you have now here's the deal when you stop eating your body screams you ever done how many fast anybody's ever gone on fast okay you go without food for 12 hours what is your 18 hours what is your body doing Come on talk to me it's screaming I'm hungry don't look at me religious okay you know what your spirit does just the opposite the less you feed your spirit the quieter it gets less you eat physical food the more you want to eat the less you read the word of God the less you want to read it let me just say this back in the early 1980s Miracles were happening like crazy but I took care of some of the guys that God used to work those Miracles and I heard the things that were being said and I said how can this be but yet they'd get up on the platform people get out of wheelchairs and I go shut up the veer God spoke to me in the middle of all of it he said I gave my church a thimble full of my power see how she'd handle it we didn't handle it well see if she'll Market it make money off of it use it to draw people to herself we didn't handle it well he said so in the midst of this he said I'm going to bring my church into a wilderness he said I'm going to develop her character and he said when she comes out of this wilderness she'll walk in the measure of my power and my spirit that the world has never seen we've been in that Wilderness now for over 30 years and we're about to come out God showed me last year we're about to come out but listen here's the great news you ready for this the greatest attack against you comes at the very end of your wilderness Dave it's in the desert for 12 14 years but when do his wives get the kidnap when does everything he have get stolen by the amalekites and when do the last 600 people that believed in him on the earth want to kill him days before his fulfilled promise Jesus is this is a desert 40 days being tempted by the enemy but it's the last three that occur at the very end they're the ones that get written about God spoke to me and he said you strengthen my church and we released this book faster than any book we've ever this is the 21st book and we released it faster than ever because I realized it was a prophetic word for the body of Christ we need you to fulfill your Harvest hey Moses had two people that fulfilled their Destiny but Joshua was another Pastor only one guy in his Congregation of millions did not fulfill his Destiny and that was a guy named Aiken it was all over money I believe that this generation that comes out will have the character to fulfill what we've been called to do and we all need to fulfill what we've been called to do can you say Amen

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Published: Sun Jun 04 2023