Wandering in the Wilderness
Palitha Jayasooriy
Numbers 10:11-13
Introduction - I had just started working and was looking forward to building a career in the secular world. I was 24 at that time. About a year into my job, I started developing a pain at the back of my left leg, which kept getting progressively worse. Pain killers helped to take the pain away, but once they were stopped, the pain came back with greater discomfort. Eventually, my parents had me examined by a Surgeon. After checking me out, he asked me to be warded in hospital immediately since I had a problem on my spine.
Thus began a very distressing period of my life.
As God's children, sometimes He permits us to go through what I would like to call 'Wilderness Experiences'. These are places where it seems like God is far away, our problems are overcoming us and where our prayers don't seem to go further than the ceiling. In fact, it seems like they hit the ceiling and come back down again!
Proposition - God will always be with us in the wilderness experiences.
The question is how should we, as God's children, respond, when we start to wander in the wilderness?
I would like to suggest 5 thoughts through this sermon, on the manner in which we should respond in these challenging periods of our life.
1) Accept that God is with you in the wilderness
In Numbers 10:11-13, it says that God led the people into the desert of Paran. Yes, God led them. The word 'Paran' means beauty and it is important to understand that God wants to do something beautiful in us, in the wilderness. He doesn't permit us to go through the wilderness and leave us there by ourselves. Therefore, we should not back away from the desert.
An encouraging quote says, 'If God brought us to it, He will take us through it'!
Everyone likes the mountain-top experiences like Peter, James and John in Luke 9: 28-36. Yet, just ahead of them was a serious demonic battle (Luke 9:37-43)! For godly character and fait ...
Palitha Jayasooriy
Numbers 10:11-13
Introduction - I had just started working and was looking forward to building a career in the secular world. I was 24 at that time. About a year into my job, I started developing a pain at the back of my left leg, which kept getting progressively worse. Pain killers helped to take the pain away, but once they were stopped, the pain came back with greater discomfort. Eventually, my parents had me examined by a Surgeon. After checking me out, he asked me to be warded in hospital immediately since I had a problem on my spine.
Thus began a very distressing period of my life.
As God's children, sometimes He permits us to go through what I would like to call 'Wilderness Experiences'. These are places where it seems like God is far away, our problems are overcoming us and where our prayers don't seem to go further than the ceiling. In fact, it seems like they hit the ceiling and come back down again!
Proposition - God will always be with us in the wilderness experiences.
The question is how should we, as God's children, respond, when we start to wander in the wilderness?
I would like to suggest 5 thoughts through this sermon, on the manner in which we should respond in these challenging periods of our life.
1) Accept that God is with you in the wilderness
In Numbers 10:11-13, it says that God led the people into the desert of Paran. Yes, God led them. The word 'Paran' means beauty and it is important to understand that God wants to do something beautiful in us, in the wilderness. He doesn't permit us to go through the wilderness and leave us there by ourselves. Therefore, we should not back away from the desert.
An encouraging quote says, 'If God brought us to it, He will take us through it'!
Everyone likes the mountain-top experiences like Peter, James and John in Luke 9: 28-36. Yet, just ahead of them was a serious demonic battle (Luke 9:37-43)! For godly character and fait ...
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