During your Wilderness, you may experience what you might consider to be a lot of failures, or serve under leadership where you see a lot of the wrong leadership characteristics being displayed. The reason God allows this is because many times He wants us to learn what "not to do" so that when He moves us forward with more anointing, power, and resources, that we will avoid doing the same wrong things that we have seen others do around us. Every good King David will end up serving under a King Saul for a period of time in their training time.

Jacob ended up serving under Laban for a long time who seemed to have many of the same negative character traits as Jacob did. Laban deceived and exploited just as Jacob had done to his brother Esau and his father Isaac, and because Jacob suffered under Laban's unfair exploitation and mistreatment, he learned not to treat people like that anymore. You see, we all have the potential of developing certain negative character traits that lie dormant in us so God just wants to head us off at the pass so to speak, so that we learn what it is like to be mistreated like that, and so we don't do that the many people God send to us during revival.

So don't feel bad if you have made what would be considered a lot of mistakes during your Wilderness time, or if you have served under some difficult leadership, because it will actually help you not to make bigger mistakes and cause worse damage to others later on. Like I have heard someone say, "As many people as you can help, will be as many people as you can hurt", so be grateful for God's lessons of what not to do back here. You will go on to help many people like King David did with what God has done in you, and you will also avoid making fatal errors like King Saul did. Learning what not to do, can be more important that learning the right thing to do sometimes. Knowing our weak areas can teach us to depend on God's strength