| Producer: | PreachingToday.com |
| Genre: | PowerPoint, Series Builder, Teaching |
| Also Available: | When Life Feels Like a Desert (PreachingToday.com Sermon Series Builder)
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| Topics: | Aaron, Attitudes, Burdens, Change, Church, Circumstances and faith, Community, Companionship, Complaining, Compromise, Confession, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Consequences, Cooperation, Deliverance, Dependence on God, Devotional life, Disobedience, Disunity, Division, Enemies, Factions, Faith, Faithfulness, Family of God, Fear, Feelings, Fighting, Folly, Forgiveness, divine, God, faithfulness of, God, Fatherhood of, Godliness, Growth, Guidance, Hardship, Help from God, Humility, Integrity, Intercession, Leaders, Leadership of the church, Moses, Obedience, Pain, Pardon, Pastor, Peace, Peacemakers, Prayer, Problems, Providence, Provision, Punishment, Rebellion, Reconciliation, Repentance, Reputation, Rescue, Respect, Righteousness, Salvation, Sin, Sin, confession of, Stubbornness, Submission, Suffering, Teachability, Testing, Testing God, Tests, Thirst, spiritual, Trials, Trouble, Trust, Uncertainties, Unfaithfulness, Ungodliness, Valleys, Worry |
| Filters: | Exclusive |
| Purpose: | None |
| References: | Numbers 9:1-14 , Numbers 9:15-23, Numbers 11:10-17, Numbers 11:24-25, Numbers 13:30-33, Numbers 14:11-19, Numbers 16:1-35, Numbers 21:1-9 |
| Tone: | Neutral/Mixed |
| Date Added: | January 07, 2008 |
Everyone experiences desert times marked by isolation, fear, loneliness, and hopelessness. The people of Israel once wandered in the desert and despaired that God had forgotten them, even though he had a history of faithfulness with Israel. They faced many challenges we face today: suffering, discontentment, dissention, and panic. Like the Israelites, we learn important lessons in the desert. First, we are unable to find our way out of the desert, but we can find our way to God. If we stay near him, he will lead us to the Promised Land. Second, God often meets our needs not by intervening supernaturally, but by leading spiritual people into our lives to help bear our burdens. Third, panic is a sin of rebellion. Fourth, when we're faced with difficult people whom we'd rather write off, we should intercede for them instead. Fifth, because God establishes his leaders, complaining against them betrays a lack of faith in his wisdom and discretion. Finally, God disciplines us when we become discontent. His discipline always leads to our deliverance, if we will confess our sin and return to him. The most important thing for Israel—and us—to remember in the wilderness, is that God has been faithful before, and he will be faithful again.
 
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