Thanks for taking time to join me on this video.

Why don't I take a moment and just pray and ask the Lord to give you his heart

and to use this to speak to you.

As I talk about lessons learned in the wilderness, every one of us over the course of our lives

will have wilderness experiences.

And I'll define what I mean by that in a moment,

but most you know, yeah, I understand what you mean by wilderness experiences. Maybe you are in a

wilderness yourself right now. Another way of looking at this is when we go through the dark

valleys. And every one of us over the course of our lives will go through these.

And in fact, if we want to grow in God, if we want to progress in God, if we want to become

more like Jesus, if we want to be more fruitful, we will have our wilderness experiences. So take a moment. Let's ask God to minister through his word to us

and to minister life and grace. It's my prayers. I speak these words. They would be words of life,

words of spiritual truth, words of transformation and hope and edification, Lord, may it be so

for your glory. Let me read to you what Paul wrote in Romans chapter 5. Therefore, since we have

been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand,

and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. That sounds wonderful, isn't it?

Not only so, he adds though, but we also glory in our sufferings because we know that suffering

produces perseverance and perseverance, character, and character, hope. And hope does not put us

to shame because God's love has been poured out into our hearts

through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

James Jacob, Chapter 1, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face

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