Lessons learned along the way...

What's most important is not so much what you are waiting for (the destination) but what you lean and become along the way.

Isaiah celebrates the waiting place- they that wait upon the Lord

When you get to your destination, all you will want to talk about are the lessons you learnt along the way!

Experience teaches patience

When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all He has done for me, my soul cries out halleluyah

Anybody will follow you to a better place, you have to be a great leader for someone to follow you to a desert place..Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him 

A desert place: where no water is, no trees, a place of barreness, brokeness

They followed Him into the desert place and suddenly there was a problem...In His presence but still have Problems! Why? They that live godly shall suffer persecution.. you get on the enemy's hit list because you are effective. Why should the devil fight who he has already got! That's why the closer you get to Jesus the more the enemy tries to attack you

Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the author and the finisher.. If God started it, He will complete it..

The older disciple were able to articulate the problem but did not have the solution, the younger child had the solution but was not aware of the problem. God will humble you to make you learn how to work with someone who is different from you to get the job done.

Another example: Samuel could hear God calling him but could not understand, Eli could no longer hear God's call but was able to understand the content- they had to come together... Let's get together and get the job done.

You need not depart- everything you need is somewhere around you, it's in the house! 

Miracles begin when you admit, Lord, I don't have enough- all I have is 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread=7--> God's number of completion!

Jesus told the disciples to sit the 5000 hungry people down in groups of 50 and 100...What's he teaching them? patience and order! God does not respond to your emergency when you are hysterical- you MUST calm down and get yourself together.. God is waiting on you to calm down so that he can release the miracle..

Every time you see others get blessed you need to rejoice not be jealous  because you are next in line for the blessing

Some things are natural but just because they are natural doesn't mean they come easy e.g. breast feeding

He took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it- that's what He does with you! Takes you, blesses you, breaks you and then serves you to the world

God multiplies you in the breaking!!- Joseph broken in the pit, Paul broken at damascus, Peter broken after denying the Lord...

What you have left is enough for God to use

It was good for me to be afflicted for had I not been afflicted, I would have never seen

Grass in the desert! He maketh me lie down in green pastures...God will create a green place in your desert