The Wilderness Test:

You have been in a test. When you take a course, in school there is a final exam. When you go through a wilderness there is a test that must be passed to fulfill the course and leave that place.

Recompense:

Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

Hbr 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

When people rise up against righteous authority, they first must believe themselves more wise then that authority.

People who do not make themselves vulnerable to leadership will not receive deliverance.

People fear bad leadership and have set themselves up as judges of the ministry. If they take that one step further they will try to punish leaders for sins of perceived offenses.

Recompense:
1. to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
2. to pay or give compensation for; make restitution or requital for (damage, injury, or the like).

For the Lord to recompense us is for him to even accounts. He said we could not out give him. To lose a ministry a building and a paycheck in one fell swoop was an awful thing. To be betrayed by most of the people in your life is awful.

To lose seven more years of not being heard is worse.

The opportunity of ministry always contains offers of a way of compromise. The devil always wants to pervert every ministry. To be wanted is a basic need we all have. To let that desire rule us is foolish. We are not to be worshiped. We are to be honored when that honor is due.

To stand strong against temptation is a test that will determine future.

When God is ready to create something, it is always done in a void, a lack, in a dark place which is brought to the light of his creative word. -God cannot be removed from what he creates. It is His creative energy that brings things to life.

When there has been an injustice, God’s justice desires to overturn that evil.

Yet he himself withdraws is manifest presence from situations for a purpose of testing. This is not to say that he left us or forsook us. It is a perception we have that he is not communicating and manifesting in usual ways. He actually hides himself deeper in our spirits so that we must come to know those places and surrender them unto His spirit. Every promotion is proceeded by a test. The test is to draw us to a deeper revelation of Him.

We pattern what we do after a pattern that was created in heaven before. The Lord is high and lifted up, so must our worship times be patterned. Also the heavens are consistently, and tirelessly praising him. Any part of my soul that has not yielded to worship him must surrender.

-When Father was to bring forth son, there was a time of silence for four hundred years. There was a vacuum of pertinent revelation for establishing His rule in the earth. This is a type of the Father seeming to withdraw Himself outwardly from our plight for a season.
-When the children of Israel left the world’s provision; they were taken to a place of bare sufficiency for forty years.
In that wilderness, he instructed Moses how to make a Holy Place for Him to dwell.

The people judged Moses as being unfit for leadership, and enticed Arron to make them an idol.
IN that rebellion Moses was seeking God with his full being. He was on the mount being overwhelmed in Glory, but His people we committing high treason.

The vacuums that are created by God, cause a hunger in the righteous. They will seek him apart form the maddening crowds of religion.

Change is the one sure element of God’s work. If you resist change you resist Him. Change for His purpose is manditory.

When the Spirit of God hovered over the waters in the Genesis account, he was brooding over a vacuum. Something that was without form and void or empty.

When we ponder God’s ways or methods, we are creating a vacuum to be filled by his truth. God always works with a word, and then gives explanation and we act on it as instruction. The hunger for that one word is key to every deliverance.

When we come to a place where we feel empty inside it is because God or we have created a vacuum that must be filled. The Holy Spirit will bring dissatisfaction with our place or purpose to develop a greater work with in us and through us.

Do not despise the days of small beginnings.

When you feel the holy dissatisfaction, you are about ready to conceive a new holy thing.

THE THING THE CHURCH DOES BEST IS THE THING IT WOULD LEAST WANT TO DO.

It falls short of the glory, and thereby creates a hunger a vacuum for the Holy Spirit to fill. Church cannot fill a lack of God’s presence by implementing new dead works. If it is an Oxcart it is an Oxcart. Don’t matter if it is new or old.

The Lord takes people out of safe places to bring them to new vision. A safe church is not a great platform for miracles. Making New Wine is a messy process.

If you don’t have messes (conflicts) you are not moving into greater power.

Church men try to regulate everything. They try to control what God is doing and make it palatable for the masses. Only the truly Spiritual will be joyful in a Holy Ghost New Wine time. Those who have made church a religious club will fear, judge, and control.

There is a time that we have come to which is the time of recompense. Many prophets have been disdained by the ministries that they interceded for, and spoken to. The last seven years starting with 2003, have been sifting times.

We are in a time of great transition. In this time it would be wise to heed the words of Peter who said: “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.”

It is time for refreshing in the Spirit. When we repent we create a place that God can work through. To repent is to change your mind, and to leave self plans behind. Whatever has seemed impossible is now possible in this day of change. Do you believe? Do you believe for His thing?

A womb of expectancy is the thing we must have to see the days of restoration of all things. His deliverance is at hand. It is His kingdom manifest in this land. God leads us to void places to fill us.

When Jesus was in the wilderness he was tempted with spiritual, soulical, and body temptations. It is no different in this day. We will be tested in wilderness places to qualify for the power that is at hand.

Can you identify the tests in your life? Is your present wilderness, a path to deliverance into something new?

The Lord will reward us for every test we have passed in this wilderness season. It is His recompense and reward.