Psalm 77:14(NIV) You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.
James 1:2-4(NLT) Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
1 Peter 1:7(NLT) These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold – though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.
The pathway to your destiny will always include a promise (glimpse of your destiny), the process (wilderness, the place of testing) and lastly the promotion (fulfilled promise).
The Promise: You are closer to your breakthrough than you can imagine and to walking in the fulfilment of all you have hoped, prayed, and believed for.
The Wilderness
Job 23:8-9(NKJV) Look I go forward, but He is not there and backward, but I cannot perceive Him; when He works on the left hand, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the right hand, I cannot see Him.
In a time of wilderness, it appears that you are going in the opposite direction of your dreams and the promises of God. You perceive no growth and development. In fact, you may feel you are regressing. His presence seems to diminish, rather than increase. You may feel unloved and even ignored. But you are not!
Deuteronomy 8:2(NIV) …The Lord your God led you…in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart,…
Deuteronomy 8:3(NKJV) So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna…that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
What did God do? He created hunger by removing anything that would have satisfied the desires and wants of their flesh, while still meeting their fundamental needs. He created this hunger to test them. What was this test? He wanted to see if they would desire Him instead of what they had left behind; to see if they would seek Him, or what their flesh craved.
Psalm 11:4-5(TLB) But the Lord is still in his holy temple; he still rules from heaven. He closely watches everything that happens here on earth. He puts the righteous and the wicked to the test; he hates those loving violence.