Hearing His Voice in the Wilderness

Hearing His Voice in the Wilderness

Deuteronomy 8:2-3 (NKJ) - And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

There will be times in our spiritual walk with the Lord when He will take us into the wilderness. The wilderness is a place of surrendering, humility, testing, and perseverance. It is a dry and desolate place to break us and make us dependent on the voice of the Lord.

God allowed the Jews to hunger so that He could feed them through supernatural provision. This wasn’t to get them to depend on manna but rather to get them to depend on the Voice that told them He would supply them bread supernatural from heaven.

When we enter the wilderness we might not feel goose bumps, we might not have an easy road, we might not be the one making declarations from the pulpit but if we surrender and allow Him to break us and become dependent on His voice, He will soon lead us to the promised land. How long before He takes us to the promised land? It depends on us, 40 days or 40 years?

Deuteronomy 8:6-10 (NKJ) - “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.”