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“When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and through the rivers,
they will not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be scorched,
nor will the flame burn you.”
Isaiah 43:2 (NASB)
When You Don’t Understand
Where God is Leading
(The story of the Israelites)
Key Principles Regarding Trials:
• When you encounter a trial ______________.
CONSIDER IT JOY
THROUGH the trial.
• The way ____
OUT of a trial is _________
• Sometimes God leads us in ways that we do not
understand in order to ________________
GROW US STRONG in Him.
THE PROMISE:
“And the LORD said, ‘I have surely seen the affliction of My people
who are in Egypt and have given heed to their cry because of their
taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. So I have come down
to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with
milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the
Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.”
Exodus 3:7-8 (NASB)
THE PROMISE:
• God has promised that He will _____
LEAD me and that
He will ______
BLESS me.
“So I have come down to deliver them…and to bring them
up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land
flowing with milk and honey…”
THE PROMISE:
• God has promised that He will _____
LEAD me and that
He will ______
BLESS me.
“And my God will supply all your needs according to His
riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19 (NASB)
THE PROMISE:
• God has promised that He will _____
LEAD me and that
He will ______
BLESS me.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing...”
Ephesians 1:3 (NASB)
THE PROBLEM:
“Now it came about when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God
did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, even
though it was near; for God said, ‘Lest the people change their minds
when they see war, and they return to Egypt.’ Hence God led the
people around the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea; and the sons
of Israel went up in martial array from the land of Egypt.” “And the
LORD was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them
on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they
might travel by day and by night. He did not take away the pillar of
cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.”
Exodus 3:7-8 (NASB)
THE PROMISE:
• Though God will bless me it is according to His
______
PLAN and not mine.
“’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your
ways My ways,’ declares the LORD. ‘For as the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than
your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”
Isaiah 55:8-9 (NASB)
THE PROMISE:
• Though God will bless me it is according to His
______
PLAN and not mine.
God cares more about your CHARACTER than He does
about your COMFORT.
THE PURPOSE:
Life Lessons Learned in the Desert:
PATIENCE
1) I grow in _____________
“walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all
respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing
in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power,
according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all
steadfastness and patience”
Colossians 1:10-11 (NASB)
THE PURPOSE:
Life Lessons Learned in the Desert:
2) I understand how to accept God’s TIMING
_______ and
______
TRUST His plan.
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on
your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge
Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NASB)
THE PURPOSE:
Life Lessons Learned in the Desert:
2) I understand how to accept God’s TIMING
_______ and
______
TRUST His plan.
“But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, I say, ‘You are My
God.’ My times are in Your hand…”
Psalm 31:14-15a (NASB)
THE PURPOSE:
Life Lessons Learned in the Desert:
WEAKNESSES and
3) I come face to face with my _____________
____.
SIN
“And He has said to me, ’My grace is sufficient for you, for power
is perfected in weakness.’ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast
about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in
me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults,
with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake;
for when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NASB)
THE PURPOSE:
Life Lessons Learned in the Desert:
4) I learn to ______
LOVE God for God’s sake and not just
for the milk and honey.
“Though He slay me, I will hope in him.” Job 13:15 (NASB)
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”
-John Piper
”Moreover [let us be full of joy now!] let us exult and
triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings,
knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce
patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance
(fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith
and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces
[the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.”
Romans 5:3-4 (Amplified Bible)