Entering the Wilderness (Week 2) - Adam Heather

During worship, I felt like I had a picture. I felt like the Lord gave me a picture of and it was of a mom sitting with her daughter playing teaching her piano and just sat alongside her. And I felt like what the Lord said is there's someone here who feels like you're a mom and you feel like you should be doing so much more. And I feel like what the Lord said in that picture was don't underestimate the power of just being present. [00:00:10] (25 seconds)  #PowerOfPresence

Some days, you don't know where it's gonna end. You don't even know what's gonna come tomorrow. Just keep walking because God is the author and perfecter of your faith. He knows what he's doing. Just keep walking. Keep walking. Keep walking. Let it bring up what it's gonna bring up inside of you, but let it push you into new levels of trust. Let it push you into helping to clarify who are you and whose are you? [00:36:32] (31 seconds)  #KeepWalkingInFaith

I'd encourage you this week, with all the various things you encounter, ask the question, which mountain are you being led up? Because there is an invitation to the second mountain, to be God's faithful people on earth, to pursue the design and destiny that he has placed on your life even if it comes with a cost, even when it's hard, especially when it means laying down your life in self sacrificial love, [00:31:45] (34 seconds)  #SecondMountainCalling

So how do we respond to all of this? Well, I think simply for some of you, maybe you feel like you're in a real season where you're facing a lot of temptation right now. You hear the voice, you recognize the voice of the evil one, and he does not have your best in mind. And you just need to know, resist and keep resisting. My encouragement to you from the bible is you can outlast him. Pick the second mountain. [00:35:00] (33 seconds)  #ChooseTheSecondMountain

And so, God, I pray right now for every single person walking through a wilderness. Lord, that they know that they do not walk by themselves, but that you are walking right alongside them. Thank you, God, that it even says that you're praying and you're interceding for them. You need to know right now Jesus is in heaven praying for you. And, God, help us to be people that get really good at recognizing the different voices we hear in our head. Let us just be laser sharp focused on knowing the voice of the father. [00:39:18] (39 seconds)  #NotAloneInTheWilderness

And so at the heart of test number one is the question, the same question posed to Adam and Eve, posed to the Israelites. What do you think you need, and how on earth are you gonna get it? Are you gonna trust day by day that there is a good God who's gonna come through on the promises that he's made concerning you? Is he gonna give you what you truly need? Or in the words of the psalmist, are you not gonna eat God's bread? Are you gonna eat the bread of anxious toil? [00:08:43] (33 seconds)  #TrustDayByDay

This is why remembrance is so important, Because the goal of the Christian life isn't that every new challenge or thirst or obstacle pushes us back into a place of anxiety. It is the way that God has shown up for us here and here and here means that when we encounter a new problem, we encounter it with trust and faith in God's promised protection, not asking that he shows off and we don't put him to the tool again. [00:13:58] (31 seconds)  #RememberGodsFaithfulness

Jesus seems to say that there's sometimes things that we believe make us promises in life that they're gonna attend to, and they're gonna reach, and they're gonna satisfy the longings of what it means to be a person. But Jesus says that sometimes if we spend too much time meeting those shallow appetites, we drown out the deeper need of the human heart. And Jesus actually tells us that sometimes choosing to turn away from shallow appetites and turn towards the voice of the father, we meet the deeper need of the human heart. [00:09:18] (34 seconds)  #ChooseDeeperNeeds