How The Wilderness Experience Exorcises our Demons
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25 And when it comes,...
Category: Wilderness Journey
We Still Need Manna in the Wilderness
“But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at” Numbers 11: 6. The Israelites in the wilderness wanted to see the provision, the fulfillment...
Wilderness In the Bible: To Do You Good in the End
“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire” Deuteronomy 12: 20. I love this verse...
Being Thankful in All Circumstances and Deliverance: The Link
“The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God” Psalm 50: 23! This verse tells us the Lord saves or delivers or...
How to Overcome Pride with Sheep
(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth) Numbers 12:3. The bible tells us there are many blessings attached to being humble. Here are a...
What Does the Bible Say About Gratitude in the Wilderness?
“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. . . I will...
The Spies in Canaan Then and Now
“But the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are’” Numbers 13:31. The 12 spies had just come back from spying out Canaan....
How The Story of the Israelites in the Wilderness Parallels Our Story
We sometimes hear about Israel’s exodus from Egypt into the wilderness and ultimately the promise land as a metaphor for salvation, and the new birth. And of course, it is. Click here to read...
The Israelites in the Desert: How to Get Out Faster
“The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into...