NU 14:1 That night all the people of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. 2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, "If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert! 3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?" 4 And they said to each other, "We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt."

I just want to encourage you today to hang on to all that God has told you and promised you, because we are standing at the very threshold of many miracles and fresh empowerment's by God, so you are bound to have more warfare and temptations to doubt than ever before. If you are right at the end of your wilderness satan loves to sit down with you and have a "get away from Jesus meeting" by pragmatically reasoning with and you telling you that you just need to get real and face the facts and reality of your life, and move forward and forget about all this promised land hooey and nonsense once and for all. He will say that your whole life has been cursed already, so why bother believing that anything else will ever change now?

The Israelites first had to spend the first part of their lives as slaves in Egypt, and then they seemed to languish the rest of their lives away in some God-forsaken wilderness that just went nowhere year after year. One of the things that the Lord told me once was "Inner growth is always more important than outer productivity". And that is exactly what the wilderness is like, and in the end it looks like your life has been wasted and ruined and every demon on the face of the earth will come around to confirm that. It's just pure garbage and you shouldn't listen to it. You are not a failure, you didn't waste your life following God, and you haven't seen the end yet because if you were dead you wouldn't be reading this right now.

I saw a vision once of a woman in the first wilderness sitting on a piece of wood by their campfire and you could see the tracks of her tears flow down her dusty face as she buried her face in her hands and she said this in a very low voice "I can't believe I let God do this to my life!", and then the view panned up and I could see a demon standing there whispering these things word for word into her ear. We need to all stand up right now, dust ourselves off, and just say "live or die, we will trust God to the very end". Did you really sacrifice everything just to run away from God's will now? No, of course not. And what would you run to?, your old life is long gone now. So don't believe what you see on the outside, hang onto God and all the words and promises that He gave you long ago, because they are real and they will happen just as He has said.

JOS 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."