The Wilderness Builds Spiritual Strength

The wilderness is a difficult season in which believers are tested, strengthened, and taught to depend upon what God has spoken.

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God can use seasons of testing to strengthen believers and teach them to depend upon His Word.

• The wilderness came immediately after Jesus was baptized and the Holy Spirit came upon Him.
• The wilderness was presented as a place of testing rather than comfort.
• The difficulties of the wilderness exposed what Jesus would depend upon when He was tempted.
• The wilderness was connected with spiritual strengthening and preparation for what came afterward.
• Jesus came out of the wilderness in the power of the Holy Spirit, showing the progression from testing to greater effectiveness.
• The wilderness teaches believers to depend upon what God has spoken rather than their own wisdom and solutions.

• Do not assume that every difficult season means you have been abandoned by God.
• Ask what God is teaching you to depend upon during the season.
• Resist the temptation to rely only on your own wisdom to escape difficulty.
• Allow God's Word to establish you while you are being tested.