When the sheep were attacked by a bear and a lion, God enabled David to deliver the lambs out of the mouths of the beasts. While David watched the flocks grazing in the wilderness, God taught him to trust Him. GOD TRAINS DAVID FOR BATTLE IN THE WILDERNESS David, the youngest son of Jesse, was given the task of tending the family's sheep. And if you choose to avoid the wilderness, you will never know the supernatural pathways revealed there.
If you look only with your natural vision, the wilderness can seem an unlikely place to find God. In the end he and his immense host of horsemen were defeated in the Red Sea-and the Israelites triumphed! Pharaoh wrongly interpreted what God was doing with His chosen people. "They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in" (Exodus 14:3, NLT). He instructed his commanders to gather together the chariots and the weapons and go after them. Pharaoh, who represents natural man, only saw a weak, beggarly people trapped in the desert, confused and directionless. Here they would witness God's might as He fought for them and gave them a great deliverance. Little did they know that it would become a place of incredible worship and provision for them. Three days into the bone-dry countryside was far enough for them to be out of reach from everything which bound them or offered creature comforts. Let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.'" (Exodus 3:18, NLT). GOD LEADS HIS PEOPLE INTO THE WILDERNESS When Israel was held captive in Egypt, God said to Moses, "…you must go straight to the king of Egypt and tell him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us.
In the Bible, there are many examples that illustrate what God can accomplish in the wilderness. I believe God wants to bring you to a place where you begin to understand why you go through hard times. As a believer, ask yourself the question: Why did Jesus keep going back to such a harsh and uninviting place? Could it be that God was revealing something of His strength there? Was Jesus receiving a hidden treasure from God which the natural mind could not comprehend? Many of us do not want to embrace what Jesus is clearly showing us-that the wilderness is not to be avoided, but rather should be accepted and understood. This would continually give God all the glory and honor. He understood the need to establish God as His sole source of strength. When Jesus' fame spread abroad, He again headed for the sanctity of the wilderness. And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed" (Luke 5:15-16). "But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. Jesus voluntarily returned again and again to the wilderness after healing the multitudes and bringing deliverance to the oppressed. And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place" (Luke 4:40-42). And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying,'Thou art Christ the Son of God.' And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ. JESUS CONTINUALLY RETURNS TO THE WILDERNESS "Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.