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Numbers 13:26 ; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. But the men who had gone up with Caleb and Joshua said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. They were saw the giants and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” All Israel believed their report. Numbers 14:3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” But Jos

TRIAL NUMBER 9. Numbers 21:5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.” So the Lord sent fiery serpents (fiery - from the copper colour plus the poisonous inflammation) among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take the serpents away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. NOT TRUSTING GOD ALLOWS THE SERPENTS TO BRING DEATH. ‘The Lord sent fiery serpents’. The serpents were already out th

Numbers 20:1 A great mob formed, and they held a protest meeting; "Would that we too had died with our dear brothers the Lord killed! "they shouted at Moses. "You have deliberately brought us into this wilderness to get rid of us, along with our flocks and herds. Why did you ever make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this evil place? Where is the fertile land of wonderful crops--the figs, vines, and pomegranates you told us about? Why, there isn't even water enough to drink!" Moses and Aaron turned away and went to the entrance of the Tabernacle, where they fell face downward before the Lord; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to them. And he said to Moses, "Get Aaron's rod; then you and Aaron must summon the people. As they watch, speak to that rock over there and tell it to pour out its water! You will give them water from a rock, enough for all the people and all their cattle!" So Moses did as instructed. He took the rod from the place where it was kept before the Lord; then Moses and Aaron summoned the

OVERKILL - TRIAL NUMBER 7 Numbers 11:4-6 Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our soul is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” This heart and soul attitude is more than just complaining. It is an intense craving to indulge. Israel became tired of eating manna, and remembered seven things they desired from Egypt. (v.5). They said their soul was dried up. They craved seven things (the fullness of self indulgence - Overkill). This was a trial for Moses too, as their murmuring became a great burden for him. (vs.10-15). There were too many needs and too much to do. So God gets him to choose out 70 men to help upon whom he will give his Spirit (That worked out to about 1 helper per 42,850 people).The same provision was made in Acts when the Apo

TRIAL NUMBER 6 - COMPLAINING Numbers 11:1 Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some on the fringes of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched. So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them. Now the mixed multitude that was among them had an excessive longing. And the people of Israel also wept again… Complaining comes from an excessive longing because of a sense of lack, a preoccupation with what we don’t have instead of what we do have. We are called to reflect the image of Jesus. 1Corinthians 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. (a complaining Jesus or a grateful Jesus? ) This is a fire of judgment. Old Testament judgment had finality about it. Saul was judged and taken out of the way and David replaced hi

Exodus 32:2 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” And Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people broke off the golden ear-rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Israel’s basic problem was impatience, an inability to wait, trust, and rest, which led to making something happen that would pass for God, a stand-in. It was the same old story of ‘Is God really with us or not?’ People do not like to have to live in the world of the unseen (faith that God is at work). They want to see some material evidence of God’s power, so t

In ancient times people believed in gods of one kind or another and the gods lived in a different world, an unseen world, so they made idols. There’s a simple logic in this. Something bigger than us it seemed was in charge of what happened at a mega level of cosmic activity and design, the weather, the seasons, life and death, what appeared to be good fortune and bad fortune etc. So they did their best to manage the moods or whims of the unpredictable gods with a thousand superstitious rituals ranging from the trivial to the murderous. But our Creator God of the Bible did reveal himself to his beloved humanity to do them good, and he finally asked his people to make a home for him to dwell in upon Earth, where he would come and meet with them. The man he asked was Solomon. Solomon’s prayer to dedicate the temple held within it this extraordinary idea of a meeting place on earth between man, and the God who lived in a world of his own. Their heart was to have heaven come to them upon the earth. 2Chronicles 6:1

Psalm 26:8; Psalm 27; Psalm 91; Hebrew 4:16 The fallen-world system can only offer uncertainty and chaos. It can assure nothing. Everywhere, people try to mitigate uncertainty by placing faith in superannuation, the stock market, investments, medicine, alliances, formulas. Millions of dollars go into prognostication, yet fear, depression, paranoia and stress abound. These are in fact, disorder! If that environment becomes ‘home’ to us , we will speak, work and live from that centre. We will live and speak uncertainty, doubt and fear, even though a different and superior place is available; a place of security, out of which we can live and speak certainty, grace and faith. It’s not God’s intention for us to live from disorder. He is righteous—meaning everything in his realm (kingdom) is in right order and alignment—and, if we know him, he bestows on us his righteousness (government of right order… ‘I bestow on you a kingdom’ Lk. 22:29) , intending us to live out of the same place as he! Here’s a typical descri

THE TEN TRIALS – Trial - THE LIVING WATERS Exodus 17:1… There was no water for the people to drink... and they complained against Moses And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river. I will stand before you there on the rock between you and Mount Sinai; and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may have water.” So he called the name of the place Massah (testing) and Meribah (dissatisfaction), because they tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord’s presence among us or not?” That was the real test and the real complaint! 1Corinthians 10:1 I don’t want you to forget about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago.. . All of them ate the same spiritual food, and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that traveled with them, and that Rock was Christ. These things were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age so that we would not crave evil things as they did. So from Christ our R

THE TEN TRIALS – Trial 3 - THE BREAD OF LIFE Exodus Chapter 16:3 “If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food (manna vs.15) from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they will gather food, and when they prepare it, there will be twice as much as usual.” Vs.16 … “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning This was the next test and was also prophetic of Jesus being our ‘Bread of Life’, and our ‘Sabbath Rest’ JOHN 6:48 I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilder

THE TEN TRIALS – Trial 2 - THE BITTER WATERS Exodus 15:22-25 So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur, and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. 24 And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast the tree into the waters, the waters were made sweet 25…and there He tested them. God wanted to reveal to Israel their reaction to disappointment, shown by their bitter complaining. It was after a three-day thirst (just about the limit). When God showed him the tree, it healed the waters. This was a picture of Jesus, the Tree of Life, who heals our disappointment. TWO TREES Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when desire comes, it is 'a tree of life’. We become conditioned to living out of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That ‘wrong

THE TEN TRIALS - THE RED SEA Hebrews 3:8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me and tried Me, and saw My works for forty years. Numbers 14:22 All these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, THE PURPOSE OF THE TRIALS Deuteronomy 8:2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, and to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. Israel had to be humbled, tested, and shown their heart. This deals with the pride (independence), rebellion (passive resistance), and deception (believing the lie) that are the marks of the flawed human nature of man. TRIAL NO. 1 CROSSING THE RED SEA - And Israel’s reaction to their first challenge of faith: Exodus14:11 Have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? W

We can wonder where we are on our life journey. We can have ideas about where we should be by now and who we should be by now and what we should have by now. When we look at the external features of all this, the ‘outer journey’ there may be some real disappointment or discontent – where is life going for me? Sometimes there’s a crisis, and God watches as the crisis is set up. He prepares our paths. It’s not so much as God always setting it up The Crisis, because it is often us do that for ourselves, or the will of others. But God graciously intervenes in the process. We are right where God has us on his ‘inner journey’ of fulfilment and completeness in him, that really leads somewhere giving us new hope and expectation of God’s supernatural goodness in our life (Abundant life). He always starts right where we are and with just who we are and with what we have, and what we are doing. Acts 17:26 ‘And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their

John 12:18 The crowd that had been with him when he raised Lazarus from the dead and called him out of the tomb continued to talk about this event, and the reason why the crowd went to meet him as he entered Jerusalem was that they heard he had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one another, “Look, the world has gone after him. No-one is listening to us anymore. ” Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified” (John 7:30, 8:20). After Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead the Jewish leaders asked for anyone who saw Jesus to tell them, so that they could put him to death (They were plotting to kill Lazarus also). So Jesus stayed out of sight with his disciples (and Lazarus) in the surrounding area. Then a few days before the Passover Fea

John 9:1 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him… He then spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam”. So he went and washed, and came back seeing. Jesus revolutionised their stance about this man’s sin or his parents’ sin being the cause of his blindness. He was prophesying His New Kingdom era whereby no sin could be passed on from one generation to another because he was cancelling all curses for all sin on the cross (Galatians 3:13, Ezekiel 18.3). The mud was prophetic of the dust of the earth of mankind’s old creation humanity, made into mud with the living water out of the mouth of Jesus, to become a new creation. Jesus as the Son of God had performed tha

Jesus upholds all things by the word of his power, and behind that word is God’s loving thought. God loves everything he creates and he keeps everything by his loving thought. God’s creation is not just the display of a mechanical adaptation of creatures in a race for survival. He creates, loves, and keeps. He compares us to his natural creation to remind us that everywhere we look we see his love at work. Luke 12 :6 “Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God (epilanthenomai - out of the mindfulness of God). But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be anxious; of how much more value are you than the sparrows. We are part of the creative, loving, keeping, power of God’s loving thought about us. Being mindful of God’s loving mindfulness for all things can lift us up out of ourselves into God’s heart for other people. The sparrow and the lilies of the field are not able to be mindful of being kept by God’s loving thought toward them, but we are

Psalm 110:1 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power… The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. He will shatter leaders all over the world… he will shatter kings on the day of his judgment. STEPHEN ACCUSES ISRAEL OF RESISTING THE HOLY SPIRIT Acts 7:51 "You stiff-necked heathen! Must you always resist the Holy Spirit? But as your fathers did, so do you! Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered. 57 drowning out his voice with their shouts, they dragged him out of the city to stone him. The witnesses, the executioners, laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul who consented to his death. GOD SUBDUES PAUL’S RESISTANCE Acts 9:4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord? Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. You’re making it hard for yourself, resisting my prodding

John 15:7 If you abide in me and my word abides in you, you shall ask what you desire and it will be done for you. Abiding is purposefully allowing God to take us along path of spiritual progress and purpose with all the ordinary things that happen to us. This is a process of faith, a powerful, active stillness, an acceptance of ‘what is’ that acknowledges the Holy Spirit’s work upon our yielded mind and spirit (Don’t scream at the darkness but allow light to enter instead). It is Presence Prayer (Abiding). This is a spiritual discipline for which we set time aside each day to develop the capacity to hear ‘the still small voice’ GOD’S LANGUAGE IS HIS ABIDING (meno) SPIRIT John 14:23-24 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (mone) with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me. God gives us Scriptural and Situational Words.

Luke 10:25 One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” (The future hope Daniel 12:2) Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?” The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and you will live!” (The promised [and now] present reality) The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied with a story: “A Jewish man was traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho, and he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him up, and left him half dead beside the road. “By chance a priest came along. But when he saw the man lying there, he angled across to the other side of the road and passed him by. A Temple Levite walked over and looked at him lying there, but he also passed by on th

Luke 19:1 He entered Jericho and was passing through. And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all complained, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” In Luke Chapter18 Jesus has challenged a rich young