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It’s stone cold and winter is at its peak in season. You’re well rested and at peace, and all the while busy counting your blessings. While you’re still asleep, in the wee hours of the morning, you’re woken up by a loud clinging bell and someone comes and drags you to the lake. As cold as it is, you’re stripped naked and thrown into the deep-end of the lake. I can only imagine freezing to death because at least I can swim, I wouldn’t drown.
That is how I felt when I began yet another involuntary journey through the wilderness. I was shattered, in between a rock and a very hard place. It was so dark, and I thought I would never see the light at the end of the tunnel. At this very moment, when I realised I had to walk through the wilderness, I had to make a decision very quick. It’s either I run to God and let Him help me or accept my odd predicament. Oh yes, it was odd, my predicament!
Like all the other times, there was noone to help me or even hear me out, everyone was busy going on with their lives. I couldn’t drown in another state of depression so I chose to run to God and God being God, He was there waiting for me to call on Him so He would answer. Like Rachel, I was in hard labour, so God sent me a midwife to help me through my short-lived moment in hard labour. I had to push and endure the pain because that baby had to come out, that dream had to come alive.
I thought to myself, I could pray for God to take me out of the wilderness or I could trust God to teach me the principles I had to grasp. I surely came out, having learnt valuable lessons. I learnt to depend solely on God and boy, did He come through for me. I became more aware of the fact that I didn’t have to put God in a box, He is a God of no limits. I didn’t have to expect God to answer me in a certain way but I just had to wait and see what He’d do.
10 things I walked out with from this journey through the wilderness are:
- To trust God with all my heart and not focus on my predicament.
- God is my only source of supply yet He uses earthly conduit-pipes.
- To pray God’s will over my human will in every situation.
- To wait on God for the appropriate battle strategy in fighting the enemy.
- To allow the mind that was in Christ to be in me.
- To overcome fear because I was given a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind.
- To fight the enemy from a position of victory because the battle was already won at Calvary.
- To call on God from wherever I am and in whatever situation I am in. Only He can save me.
- To hear God’s voice and be obedient to Him.
- To handle money, I learnt money principles when money was tight.
In all this, I’ve learnt to literally depend on God for everything in my life. There are situations in our lives that strip us down and leave us cold to the point that we are tempted to give up on God or we even question God. But God allows us to go through trials and tribulations so that at the end of it all we are perfect and complete, lacking nothing. You may not know right now why you’re going through that trial. I urge you to pray and ask God to reveal the principles He is teaching you and that you don’t miss the lesson in it.
Stripped down and cold? Run to God, He has a perfect plan for you, He has principles he wants to teach you. Do not be discouraged and be thankful at all times. Sometimes, there will be no one around to help you, everyone will seem to be far and distant, but God will never leave you and the Holy Spirit is always there. Learn to depend on God. Every wilderness has a lesson so don’t be quick to ask God to take you out before you master that principle.
God bless you and keep you and give you peace that surpasses all understanding.
PS – I wrote this before today’s sermon on the Power of Prayer by Apostle Donald Motsamai. I just sat there, in awe of God’s alignment in my life. My God, my God, I love You and you’re the best in everything.
