When you can't feel God, what do you do?
To finish off the 'Fight Back' sermon series, Pastor Vlad brought a message called "Wilderness Wanderings." This message is encouraging and eye-opening to the wilderness season we as believers face.
We hope this encourages you!
Notes:
Wandering - traveling aimlessly from place to place; itinerant.
Be careful with your wants in wilderness.
Want → Weary → Whining → Wickedness
Want → Waiting → Worship → Winning
1. The WARFARE of Wilderness (Matt 12:43)
Dry place is between deliverance and dominion.
Demons go through dry places. Delivered people go through dry times.
2. The WIDTH of Wilderness
The wilderness season can be stretched by complaining or shortened confessing.
3. The WITH of Wilderness (Deut 2:7, John 9:1, Gen 16:13)
God is with you even when you don’t feel Him.
WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE JESUS, rest in this, HE SEES YOU!
YOU WILL SEE HIM WHO SEES YOU!
4. The WORK of Wilderness (Job 23:8-10, John 5:17)
If you don’t see God working, He is working behind the scenes.
Jesus did 7 miracles on the Sabbath. God is always working, even on your days off!
5. The WORD in Wilderness (Matt 4:4, Deut 3:8)
To live by faith you must be ruled by the word.
To live by faith, we have to ruled by God’s word
To live by feelings, we have to be ruled by the world.
6. The WORSHIP in Wilderness (Psalm 149:6-9)
Worship is the water in the wilderness. It might not be found in the river of life’s blessing but it must flow from the rock of who God is.
Worship is water.
We are created to worship.
Don’t drink bitter waters of idolatry.
Worship is the weapon in spiritual warfare.
