ENTHRONED

Your Wilderness isn’t a Punishment 

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Good morning and welcome to the Enthrone podcast. My name is Solomon, and I'm here with Brother Andrew. And I'm very excited for what we're going to do today because we're actually going to be talking about something that is near and dear to not only my heart, but I think a lot of people's hearts as well. Um, and it'll be about purpose, but a deeper dive in purpose. We'll actually be talking about more so what happens with purpose in the wilderness. Specifically, it what happens when you're in this wilderness season and you can't seem to find purpose in there. You you don't know what's going on, you're not sure what's happening, you don't know what God is doing, and discovering what you can find in that hiddenness. Before we continue to dive in there, I just want to remind you of a couple things. We do the Enthrone podcast every Tuesday at 6 a.m. So feel free to tune in there. Like and subscribe, of course, and even set a notification so that way you get reminded at 6 a.m. when we go and do the video. So I'm excited to really talk about this, brother Andrew, because I think it's gonna be really awesome. Amen. Um, so grab your shields, grab your swords, and let's get ready to go to war as we go into the word of God. So I just want to first of all ask you, how's your morning going? It's amazing. Amen. That's good. Mine too. So hey, it's not my fault though. Jesus did it. Oh, amen. Okay. Yes, sir. That's really awesome. I had nothing to do with how good my day is. Nothing. And that's and that's awesome. You know what I'm saying? Uh, because it's true.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

You know, there's not I've from what I'm understanding, like there's nothing that we can do or not do to make our day what God already made it. He's the one that made it first.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

Yeah, I mean, we can we can definitely do dumb things, but then we don't have to live in those dumb things. Exactly. Because it's it's the whole saying of, you know, you made your bed, now you have to lie in it. Yes. And the greatest news about the gospel is that's wrong. Amen. Yeah. I did make the bed, but I get to lay in his.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Come on, yes, sir. What qualifies us to be now? We're about to get into the topic, but what even qualifies people to do that? Because they'll hear that and it might really frustrate them because they have this belief system that they have to do something. And they they they're like, well, at least let me fix the pillows or at least let me wash the sheets first. Yeah. But what qualifies them for being able to not have to do any of that?

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Well, it's just it's just understanding that he he makes me lie down in green pastures. Wow, yeah, he leads me beside still waters. So I don't know about you, but when I hear that, there's not a lot of me doing a lot of anything. He's making me lay down, he's leading me.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

And so I think the difference is is sometimes we're not we're not allowing him to be the Lord. Instead, we want him to be savior, but we want to be Lord. Right. And so we get to determine how we're going to walk through a situation or a storm. When the storm came to the wise man and the foolish man, the foolish man rested upon what he thought was right. The wise man rested upon the truth. The truth was what saw him through. It wasn't the fact that he was great or that he was awesome. It was the truth was great. The truth was awesome. And he leaned, he leaned not on his own understanding. And so I think a lot of times what we end up doing is we we live from our situation and circumstance and we allow um the storm to speak louder than truth. But the truth always quiets the storm. It just matters on what we're listening to. You usually you jump right into the disciples in the boat, they're they're traveling across the sea, a great storm comes, Jesus is asleep in the boat, and they all start losing their mind. And and one of the one of the things that that the Lord showed me early on was, and I haven't taught it a lot, but they started listening to the storm when they should have leaned in and listened to the breath of Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Right.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

You know, maybe he snored. I don't know. He was a man.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

If he snored, they should have leaned into the rhythm of his snore. If he didn't snore and he's someone that just you could just because when someone, when you know, I'm married, and when I sleep next to my wife and I wake up in the morning, I can I can hear her breathing. And her breathing is so peaceful. There's no labor in it. It's just so peaceful. Yeah. And I and I've just I've often leaned into that in the midst of situation and circumstance, and it's just, Lord, let me hear your breath in the middle of this storm. Because it brings peace to my soul. And I just lean into what is he breathing on? Because he's not breathing on chaos, he's not breathing on turmoil, he's not breathing on what seems right to a man, he's breathing on the truth. And in order to get in that breath, I've got to get into the truth. And we have it. We do have the word of God. Yes. Amen. And and it's it's I think that a lot of times people live wilderness-oriented instead of sonship-oriented in the midst of a storm.

SPEAKER_02 4:57

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

And that's why we we've labeled the wilderness bad. Yes. Because we have looked at the wilderness season and we lived wilderness-oriented. And so what that does is it creates this chaos inside of us and it makes us try to figure things out. But as a son in the midst of a storm, I lean into the breath of God.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

Right.

SPEAKER_00 5:17

And we we have in the church, we've labored the wilderness as something bad. Oh, you know, I'm just going, brother, I'm just going through a wilderness season. I need you to pray for me. And it's always like, I need to get out. But when you fall in love with God, you don't long to get out of the wilderness because if God led you into the wilderness, God's with you in the wilderness, and there's no place I'd rather be than where God is.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Right.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

And understanding that, like we we have so many. If I was to ask you, Solomon, what absent of my teaching, what I've taught you, what does the wilderness exist for?

SPEAKER_01 6:00

I don't know to to get be lost in there and hope that God pulls me out of there, but I'd have to look. That's that's not actually honestly, that's my first thought. It's like, well, I have to find my purpose here in the wilderness. Sure. I and I think that's man's peop man's idea in general, but it's definitely mine. If it's nobody else's, it's definitely my life. I have to find out what I'm supposed to do here. What am I supposed to do? I'm looking through bushes, I'm looking at the sky. Why am I here? What's the reason? What am what is my purpose here? I'd be looking for purpose.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

And that's that's where a lot of people go.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

And that's why they mess up. Yes. Because they start looking for their purpose in the wilderness instead of God's purpose in the wilderness.

SPEAKER_01 6:36

Wow. Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

God, God is what is your purpose?

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

What is your plan for my life? We start thinking about what's ours. What what does this do for me? God, why did you bring me here? Jesus, so Jesus gets baptized by John the Baptist. They see the dove descend, the bird descending like it, the spirit of God descending like a dove, rest upon him in remains. He's led into the wilderness, and it tells the purpose for him being led into the wilderness to be tempted. So Jesus didn't go in, what's my purpose? What's my plan? He already knew the spirit was leading him in there for God's purpose for the temptation to come. Because when you overcome it, you have authority over it. So if we go, if we go Deuteronomy 8 and 2, it actually tells us. Like, because we we it seems like we spend our entire lives trying to figure out why the Israelites were in the wilderness and what was going on there, and you know what was really happening. And then it's like it's in the word. Like it's this is not a time, Solomon, where it's like, oh, well, you need to try to figure this out, and it's coded and all this stuff, and you you got to figure out the code. Like, no, and it's verbatim, like just straightforward why they were in the wilderness. Thank you, Lord. Amen. So Deuteronomy 8 2, and you shall remember. That means they forgot, and I don't want you to forget that the Lord your God. So he tells them who did it. Moses is telling them, the Lord your God did it. Led you. So who was leading them? God was. Who was he leading? The Israelites. All the way. So what's that mean? I they he was never not with you. He was there the whole time. These 40 years in the promised land. No. Wilderness. That's what it meant. Why why? Why were we there? What was God's purpose? His purpose was to humble you and test you. To know. He wanted to know. He wanted to be married to what was in your heart. Whether you would keep his commandments or not. So he humbled you. This is how he humbled you. He allowed you to hunger. And he fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know. He fed them food they had never seen before in their life.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

And he didn't give them a choice. You're going to eat what I give you. And you're not even going to know what it is that I'm giving you. You're not going to understand it. You're not going to know how it's going to come or what it's going to taste like. It's going to show up and you're going to eat it because I gave it. Not because you're familiar with it. Right? So many times we want to eat what we're familiar with. Yes, sir. We search for churches that are familiar. We search for doctrine that's familiar. Come on. That's why, that's why we're we're theologically like depth-challenged. Because we're only living in what is comfortable. Theology, like, like you think about Einstein and he's creating relativity, and he's starting to try to give that to the scientists of the day. They thought he was crazy. Only later did they find out this dude's right.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

And we just didn't like it because we had never heard it before or we didn't discover it. You can't discover what God just delivered into your hands. Right. You just experience it.

unknown 9:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

He allowed you to hunger, he fed you manna which which you did not know, nor did your fathers know. Why? That he might make you know that a man shall not live by bread alone, but man's lives lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. So now we jump right back. Satan shows up, tells him, You're hungry, turn those stones into bread. There it is. Jesus quotes Deuteronomy. Yes. Man shall not live by bread alone. I will not be tempted by what I can do. That's what Jesus was saying. You're trying to get me to do something on my own, but I'm telling you that my life only exists from what proceeds from the mouth of the Father. He was saying, if I turned that into bread, I would eat for a day. But if I live from his voice, I'll live for eternity. I'll eat for eternity. I'll be sustained for eternity. My purpose is his voice. Wow. Yeah. Then he goes on. Your garments did not wear out on you. This is what God did. He's reminding them, this is what God did. I didn't do this, you didn't do this. You couldn't do this. Nor did your foot swell these 40 years. He's saying, You've been walking. Did you not notice that your feet didn't swell? Wow. You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. Therefore, so because all this is true, because he did all of this and you didn't understand it, you couldn't produce it, you couldn't program it, you couldn't control it. Because all that's true, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God to walk in his ways and fear him. And we hear that. Oh, okay, so so because God's so great, I gotta do what he said. No, no, because God's the way, I've got to walk in his ways. And because his way is the only way that sustains, fear is a reverence. I'm walking in reverence of the fact that his way produces what my way could have never done. For the Lord your God is bringing you into good land. That's some that's a word for somebody right there. Yes, sir. You've been in a season right now in your life that you've been you've been calling bad because it feels like a wilderness, and the Lord is doing things to humble you and teach you, but you need to remember who the Lord your God is and what he's done for you during this season. It's so easy to look at things that you disliked and miss what God was doing. He's 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.

unknown 13:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

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 give has given you. That's a good day. That's a great day. And you and it he's telling them like you did nothing to get here. The Lord did it. All you did was show up, and sometimes you showed up grumbling. Sometimes you showed up complaining. He did it anyways. That's what love is. Because what we see here is the wilderness was was not meant to destroy Israel. It was actually meant to teach them that that God's word and provision are enough. You know, we have we have wilderness churches, and and the slogan behind it is a place where you find God is all you need. And that's what the wilderness is about. Like provide for me, give me food, give me shelter, give me God. I bet he's a good father. Yeah. And if and if I get him, I bet I get food. I bet I get shelter. I bet I get provision. That's what he's saying. Because you have to remember what the Lord God did, and he was with you these 40 years. He walked through everything you walked through. He never left you, never abandoned you, even when you wanted to leave and abandon him, and sometimes did. And because he's awesome, you get this good land. Not because you were awesome, because you grumbled and complained. And we do this thing where we make it through wilderness, he said, oh man, now the God, now the Lord's going to reward me. No, it's his goodness. It's not a reward for good behavior. It's who he is. It's who he is. Like because if we're getting rewarded for good behavior, we should get punished for bad behavior.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

Right.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

And now we think that God is punishing the same way he did seemingly in the Old Testament, which we misunderstood entirely. Yes. But in reality, what he was doing was he was putting us in tests and trials our entire life to bring us into the covenantial reality that that our character needed to be crucified because it was wrong. We had a wrong lens, we had a wrong heart, we had wrong ears. Our mind was not the mind of God. We had the mind of the things of this earth. And Jesus came to give us a better glimpse at the mind of God.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

Why does it sometimes feel like almost as if the scripture itself, the word of God, is like a wilderness almost? Because you're diving in, you know, yeah, on a historical front, you're diving into cultures and different stuff like that that you may not understand quite really. But then you're diving into God, why? Or what was the meaning of this, or how did this happen? Or, you know, I think for me, for example, continuously, when you after you shared that with Deuteronomy, I I'd never seen Deuteronomy in that way. Um because sometimes there is still a struggle within myself to see God as like good in always, even in the ways of discipline. You know what I'm saying? But one of the qu one of the questions that came up with me as well is something that I may have heard before, but just like, you know, if God was good, why did he why why doesn't he give us the choices or you know what I'm saying? Why why does it have to be discipline? You know, now I know some of that's already said in the word, but I think for people, like, why why do we wrestle with God's love? Because sometimes I feel like God's love is a a wilderness itself, and we can't seem to find God's love. Yeah. I might have asked two questions, but you know.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

So it's it's I I believe, you know, e each person, each person is walking through their own their own thing. Um But I I know I know a a taste of the goodness of God. I know a measure of who that He is. And the measure that I've seen that of who that He is has made me know the theory of relativity is correct. Does that make sense? Yes, he does. Something that seemed so so out there that nobody could believe. Because we think we know everything in the science world. And then here comes this guy with relativity. Nobody's ever heard this before. This can't be right, it doesn't match anything we know. It can't be right, and then it proves to be right. And so I've tasted some things of the Lord that doesn't match what the church has been teaching. And it doesn't mean it's wrong because the church hasn't been teaching it. It just means we got to wait a minute and it's gonna start catching up. And we're seeing it, we're seeing it all over the face of the earth right now. You know, I've been I've been preaching identity and belovedness, and and the father is not what the church has made him to be. I mean, imagine that the Pharisees and Sadducees have painted him a certain way, and then he shows up and he's nothing like what any of them expected him to be, and they rejected him and crucified him. And then we think because we see the cross that we're going to understand him correctly now when we step back into religious lens. But people are starting to see like this this God, this God of condemnation, this God of judgment is not the God that I see in the Bible. And it's it's the mercy of God when he sees his children walking and doing something incorrectly, that he puts things in their path to correct them so that they can walk rightly and get a better result. Because he didn't come, he didn't come to just bring life, he came to bring life more abundant.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

And so my my mind immediately went to Hosea 2, um, verses 14 and 15. And it and it says, Therefore, behold, I will allure, I will allure her, will bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of anchor is a door of hope. She's so saying there, it's in the days of her youth, and is in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. And so he's talking about leading, he's talking about leading someone into the wilderness. And and the reality is why? Because in this in this moment, the wilderness is becoming this place of restored intimacy.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Where with with God, where where hopelessness now turns into hope.

unknown 19:59

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 20:00

Because she she had walked, Hosea was walking through some stuff, and and and and and uh in Israel was walking through some stuff, and Hosea comes and brings this word, like uh this is the restoration of the Lord, this is the intimacy of the Lord being brought back upon you, but you've got to follow his leading. And and I don't I don't think when God, because when we hear wilderness, we immediately think barren and damp and and dry and and all of this stuff, and like nothing, nothing there good for me. But if the Lord was the one leading there, then life was already in the wilderness. Right. And we fight it it it's it's what I was saying. Like, I don't believe the Pharisees and Sadducees were against God. I think they were too much for what they believed was God. Because their their heart was to serve God, but they were serving God from their own understanding. Ah, yeah. And so they started creating this pseudo-Jesus in their own image. Because it's easier to follow something that looks like you than have to be transformed and changed constantly, continually changed. Paul said, Wash your mind with the word, like daily. Yes, daily. So what is he saying? You need to change your mind every day. That's hard. Solomon, at some point, I just want to get to where I can just live in my own thinking. But that's not allowed in the kingdom of God because we're supposed to be going from glory to glory. How do you think we're gonna go from glory to glory if our mind's not being transformed? Right, and that's an uncomfortable place for the flesh, that's why the old man has to die. But the problem is, is we keep feeding him bananas so he stays alive. We need to stop giving him bananas. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

No more bananas. No more bananas. That's right. Absolutely. Um, but I when when I I think I'm just really kind of mesmerized about just the man. And eventually it says quail. But it talks about like the manna. And so I and that that word I've heard every now and then. And small backstory. I I remember, you know, there was a time where we were, I don't remember the cable TV was on, and we were getting on um getting ready to go to to church. Um and I'm not sure exactly where I was. I feel like it was just me visiting, uh, we were visiting our stepdad while he was down south in Georgia. But the TV would come on and there would be something about like with a little catchy lingo, but it was talking about like fresh manna. Um, and then you know, there would be somebody on TV who's like a pastor on TV while we were getting ready to go to church. And so, what is so important about that manna? What even is that? Um, I don't see it a lot of times in the grocery store. And you know, I and it sounds really cool because it's it, you know, I'm saying I seen when I read it in on the word, it's described very interesting. Um, and I've never I'm like, wow, that's why don't we see and why don't we see that today? So many questions. Oh, well, I don't know. I want you to tell me. I might have some ideas, but I would rather you say so.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

Exodus 16. Wow, okay. Um, verse 4. And then we'll jump down to 15 also. Okay. Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I mean see and perceive. I will. See, slow it down. Because it's easy. The Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Yeah, that is.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

And you miss it. The Lord said to Moses, This is an intimate encounter right here. Like the Lord didn't say to a group of people, and Moses was there. He said to Moses, individually and directly. This is a face-to-face moment, so to speak. Behold, look, see, perceive, understand. I, who the Lord will rain bread from heaven. Where's the bread coming from? Heaven. God, I want anything you have for me except for that bread from heaven. Right? Right. When we say, God, I want whatever you got for me, we already got something in mind that we want from him. Who's it for? He didn't say for the Israelites. He said for you. This is a personal thing for you, Moses. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day. That I may feed them? Nope. That I may test them. Wow. Whether they will walk in my law or not. Wow. This is for you, Moses. They're gonna go out and gather it, and I'm gonna test them. Because we need to find out who you're leading into the promised land. Because you're not gonna lead these people if they're not willing to follow. I'm gonna I'm gonna divide them rightly. So we jump down to 15. So when the children of Israel saw it, that's the word perceived again. They said to one another, What is it? For they did not know what it was. That's what manna means. What is it? And Moses said to them, This is. And I love that. Just that those two words. This is. That's that's so like God. Yeah. He tells Moses at the burning bush, once you go in, you're gonna rescue the Israelites. How will they believe that you sent me? Tell them I am sent you. I am. So funny. It's not even full sentence. I know. That's so funny about it. This is, I am. So so we get it's important because we got to stop there because now what we're doing is we're jumping back and forth in scriptures. So he says, This is the bread, and it's the same words that Jesus later says, I was the bread that came down from heaven.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Remember, he says that in the New Testament. Yeah, absolutely. He's rebuking the Pharisees, he's teaching them. Rebuke is teaching, rebuke his love. He's not, he's not condemning them, he's loving them. Right. I was the bread. Your forefathers lived on me. This is what is it? Is what enough? That's right. The bread which who gave the Lord has given you to eat. When we read that, our heart has to change and go, whatever you give is sufficient. This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. So in in the wilderness, Israel had no visible resources. None. Yet God's faithfulness met their everyday needs. The lesson I think is that his presence and prof and his his presence and provision are sufficient. Like even in the midst of like none none of us, none of us have been lost in a desert for 40 years walking in a circle.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

Right.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Nobody watching. Because if if you're watching this, you have internet. And there's there's no there's no internet in the wilderness. There's no internet in the middle of a desert. It's just not there. So you're not watching this in the wilderness. Like you're you're not physically in a dry place with no provision, hoping God shows up. And sometimes, Solomon, I think we find ourselves in those like spiritually dry places, and God's not providing because God didn't lead us there.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

We let ourselves there. And there's a door of provision to get back out, but we refuse because it becomes familiar. We easily transfer this into churches. A lot of people are stuck in dry and dead churches and they don't know how to get out, and they're waiting for God to make the church alive. He may never make the church alive because he may never want it the church to be planted. He may never want it that specific. We're not talking about the ecclesia. We're talking about a building with people that are gathering and a man or a woman trying to lead it the way that seems right to them. And if it's spiritually dead and dry, maybe God's not going to touch it. Maybe some people need to get bold enough to realize there's a door and a way out to go into a place that's actually going to feed them. And by them doing so, they set free the leadership that was never supposed to be there, doing what they're supposed to be doing, and God can better lead them into what He wants them to be doing.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

It's awesome. How do you know that you're in the wilderness season?

SPEAKER_00 29:35

Well, the Lord had to lead you there.

SPEAKER_01 29:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

Like when the Israelites leave and go into the wilderness, God led them. It's very clear. Signs and wonders followed. When Jesus was led into the wilderness by the Spirit of God to be tempted, signs and wonders followed. We know the leading of the Holy Spirit by the fruit that follows. If there's no fruit, it can't be God, because God always produces fruit. And sometimes it's a little bit of fruit, and sometimes it's a lot of fruit. I was sitting, I was, I wondered when this was going to come up because I was sitting yesterday we came home from church, and because we're pre-recording this, and so yesterday was Sunday for us, and and um I came home from church, and me and me and my wife, Brittany, we were talking, and um she said, What are you gonna do? And I said, I think I'm just gonna sit in my chair. I'm just gonna sit in my chair. And so I probably sat in my chair for the next two hours. Just listened to the word. Sometimes I got out on my knees and was praying. Brittany came in, was dealing with some plants and stuff in our bedroom. And but one of the things that I caught myself doing when everybody was gone, and I and I was sitting in my chair, and I had one earbud in, I had the Bible playing in my ear. And I was listening to the Bible, but with my other ear, I was listening for noises outside, outside the room. And and we had a lot of people over at the ministry base yesterday. And it was funny because as I was sitting there listening, I knew when my daughter Blakely opened the hallway door. I knew when Maisie did. I knew when my son did. I knew when Britney did. And I was sitting there with the Lord and I thought, that's so cool. That I can sit here and I know the way they sound. And the Lord started ministering to me. He said, It's because you've made it purposeful for you to pay attention to the smallest of sounds. Because I could hear them coming before they ever even got close enough that many people wouldn't even, and I wasn't even fully focused because I had an earbud in this ear, listen to the Bible and this ear. But only with half an ear I was able to hear who was coming. And I was like, man, that's sometimes we got to get better at just sitting alone in a room in the quiet and listening. Because it's it's it's blind bartimaeus. It says that he heard the Lord coming. He couldn't see, but he had trained his ears to listen for what he was longing for. And if we're not, if we're not looking for the smallest of fruit, we might miss it. Because we're looking for big fruit, big explosions, big change, big transformation. You don't get big fruit or big transformation without smell celebrating the small things. You celebrate everything God is doing. God pays an electric bill. You should just you should act the exact same way that you would if you put a million dollars in your bank account. Come on. Yeah. Because there's no small things with the Lord, because the Lord did it. So wilderness and purpose in the wilderness is all about finding out that God has always been the purpose. God has always been the reason. And if God's leading me somewhere, it can't be wilderness if God's with me. It is the promised land. Because the promised land is realizing that God is all you ever needed. Won't you pray for us?

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Yeah. Amen. I'd love to. Always. Thank you. Thank you, Lord God. I thank you so much, Lord, for each and every listener, each and every viewer, that the season that they're in, wherever they are, that there is a purpose for it. There's a reason for it. And it's because, Lord God, that you're in it and you're leading them. And so, Lord, I just thank you that we begin to lean our ears to the sound of who you are, to your breath, to your footsteps, and to your leading. Lord God, I thank you for the fruit on each individual's lives that will begin to grow within within the trees that are within them, Lord God. That God is just watering, watering with the word and just putting the soil down, the firm foundation down underneath them. And so, Lord God, I just thank you for continuously growing each and every individual. Lord God, lead them, Lord. As I know that you will, because you're a good father, and you have not forsaken us, you have not left us. And I thank you. And I thank you specifically for the person or people that feel like they're lost and they can't seem to find their purpose or reason. Lord God, I just thank you right now that your hand is on them, on their shoulder, and you're just leading them and you're just pointing the way. I bless your name, Lord God, and I thank you so much for guiding us and leading us in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

Hey, thank you all for joining. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

Man, yes. Thank you guys so much. Every Tuesday, 6 a.m., this is where we'll be. Uh, tune in, subscribe, and please, if you have any questions or comments or anything, put them in in the comment section. Amen. Yep. Bless you guys. Amen. Bless you.