The Phaneroo Devotion: Treasure Your Wildernesses
Apostle Grace Lubega
Galatians 1:17 (KJV): “Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.”
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Wilderness experiences are important for every believer who is to be greatly used by God. In the wilderness, God tests you, deals with your flesh, teaches you to hear His voice, and disconnects you from dependence on the arm of flesh.
Every man who goes through the fullness of the wilderness experience as intended by God never returns the same.
Moses spent years in the wilderness. When he returned, he came back as a man on a mission to lead the children of Israel out of captivity. Paul’s time in Arabia was a wilderness experience. When he returned, he came back with a message for the Church. When Jesus went into the wilderness for His forty days of trial and temptation, He returned in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Unfortunately, there are believers who never benefit from these wilderness experiences. They may come out unchanged or even die there.
Some try to pray themselves out of the wilderness because they do not recognize it as the work of God. Others, like the children of Israel, whine and complain about everything that is not going well until they disqualify themselves from inheriting the promised land.
This should not be your story. If God is taking you through the wilderness, wait on Him, yield to Him, learn from Him, and understand why He is leading you there and what He is preparing you for. The wilderness was not meant to destroy you or leave you as the same person. It is meant to shape you into a man of mandate and assignment. Hallelujah!
FURTHER STUDY: Luke 4:14; Ecclesiastes 3:1
GOLDEN NUGGET: If God is taking you through the wilderness, wait on Him, yield to Him, learn from Him, and understand why He is leading you there and what He is preparing you for. The wilderness was not meant to destroy you or leave you as the same person. It is meant to shape you into a man of mandate and assignment.
PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank You for this truth. Thank You for the seasons and times of my life. I recognize Your hand in each and every one of them. You teach me and make me patient in moments of consecration and separation, to wait on You to move me and never to move myself. You teach me to hear Your plans and purposes and to walk in their fullness. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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