God's Wilderness Training Camp

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Wilderness Benefits

• Special learning, testing opportunities
• Fewer distractions
• Easier to focus on God

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A LESSON ABOUT TIMING

• 1. God Is Not In a Hurry!

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Ill bring My people out of Egypt into a country
where theres good land, rich with milk honey.
Ill give them the land where the Canaanitesnow
live. Ex.38
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THE SINAI PENINSULA
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THE SINAI PENINSULA
Way of the Sea
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Exodus 13
page 67
page 48
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LESSONS FROM THE WILDERNESS
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THE SINAI PENINSULA
Way of the Wilderness
A two-week trip that took one year!
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THE SINAI PENINSULA
Road to Kadesh Barnea
An eleven-day trip that took 39 years!
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A REMINDER FOR US

• God would rather have me take
• longer to get somewhere, be sure
• I arrive as the right person!

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Dont forget, dear friends, that a day is like
a thousand years to the Lord, a thousand years
is like a day. 2 Pet. 38
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A LESSON ABOUT TIMING

• 1. God Is Not In a Hurry!

• Need Patience

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LESSON ABOUT PAST BLESSINGS

• Be Intentional About Remembering
• What Gods Done Who He Is!

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LESSON ABOUT PAST BLESSINGS

• Be Intentional About Remembering
• What Gods Done Who He Is!

• Need Gratitude

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A LESSON ABOUT PERSPECTIVE

• 3. Discontentment Distorts
• My Perspective Twists My View of Reality.

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A LESSON ABOUT PERSPECTIVE

• 3. Discontentment Distorts
• My Perspective Twists My View of Reality.

• Need Optimism

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Everything that was written in the past was
written to teach us, so that through endurance
the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have
hope. May the God of hope fill you with all joy
peace as you trust in Him, so that you may
overflow with hope by the power of the Holy
Spirit. Rom.154, 13
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A LESSON ABOUT ATTITUDE

• 4. Im Prone to Grumble,
• So I Must Fight That Temptation!

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A LESSON ABOUT ATTITUDE

• 4. Im Prone to Grumble,
• So I Must Fight That Temptation!

These things happened to them as examples were
written down as warnings for us. 1 Cor. 1011
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A LESSON ABOUT ATTITUDE

• 4. Im Prone to Grumble,
• So I Must Fight That Temptation!

• Need Rejoicing

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A LESSON ABOUT PROVISION

• 5. Live One Day At a Time!

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A LESSON ABOUT PROVISION

• 5. Live One Day At a Time!

Your clothes didnt wear out your feet didnt
swell during these 40 years. Deut.84
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A LESSON ABOUT PROVISION

• 5. Learn to Live One Day At a Time!

• Need Trusting God daily

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Midcourse Self-Analysis

• Hurry vs. Patience
• Forgetting vs. Gratitude
• Discontentment vs. Optimism
• Grumbling vs. Rejoicing
• Worry vs. Trusting (daily)

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Leadership Lesson 1

• Take Responsibility For My Mistakes!

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Leadership Lesson 1

• Take Responsibility For My Mistakes!

• Cover-ups flattery

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Leadership Lesson 1

• Take Responsibility For My Mistakes!

• Cover-ups flattery blame

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Leadership Lesson 1

• Take Responsibility For My Mistakes!

• Need Integrity

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Leadership Lesson 2
Celebrate Gods Work In Thru Others!
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Leadership Lesson 2
Celebrate Gods Work In Thru Others!

• Leader jealousies
• - Joshua Miriam Aaron

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Leadership Lesson 2
Celebrate Gods Work In Thru Others!

• Need Humility

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Leadership Lesson 3
Take Risks for God!
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Leadership Lesson 3
Take Risks for God!

• Only Joshua Caleb trusted God

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Leadership Lesson 3
Take Risks for God!

• Need Faith

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Leadership Lesson 3

• Take Risks for God!

• Moses Aaron lack of faith cost them

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A LESSON ABOUT FEAR AND FAITH

• Fear robs me of joy the potential of walking
  with God to new exciting places
• Faith leads me on an exciting journey of daily
  trust in God

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Leadership Self-Analysis
Blame Jealousy Fear
vs. vs. vs.
Integrity Humility Faith
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