It’s a place where we develop a deeper relationship with Him: God desires an intimate relationship with His children. He brings destiny helpers on our way, people we never thought could be of help to prove that He is in control and can use anything and anyone to accomplish His purposes in our lives. When our focus is on Him, He uses different vessels to reach out to us. Living by faith also means waiting on Him in the place of prayer, seeking His face for His intervention, always at the centre of His will to bring our heart desires to fruition at His appointed time where He alone takes all the glory. He shows up in various ways and goes ahead of us to fight battles on our behalf when we least expected. As we please Him with our steps and actions of faith, we see His manifest presence in our lives.

Living by faith is total dependence on God for life, and that is God’s ultimate purpose for humanity. Throughout the scriptures, it is affirmed and reaffirmed that “the just shall live by faith”. It’s a place of total dependence on God as your only source: As we recline to God in our lonely state, we see Him at work in our lives, and that propels us to look unto Him alone for everything. The word of God is so powerful, and when we live each day in the consciousness of His presence, it gives us the impetus to move on. 13:5, “………I will never leave you nor forsake you”. At other times we feel forsaken, the word of God says in Heb. Often times, this has led many to look back and compromise their faith in God, but for those that withdraw from the crowd to cry out to the Lord in secret will find solace in God alone. People around may offer help and show care in diverse ways to encourage us, and because all that may not suffice to bring about the solution that we desire, we tend to withdraw back to our shell. When we go through the wilderness, it sometimes seems we are alone our challenges seem to be peculiar to us. God has created every man for a unique purpose to fulfil in life, and it is this uniqueness that shapes the wilderness experience that we have to go through in life, which suggests that our wilderness experiences differ. It’s a lonely Path: On the last day, the scripture says each of us will give an account of himself (Rom. Let’s take a critical look at some of the characteristics of the wilderness that is orchestrated by God. It comprises tests and trials which we are expected to overcome.

Why would a loving Father lead His only begotten Son through the wilderness? The Christian race is a journey the wilderness is a common experience that every believer at one point or the other will have to go through. There was a public declaration of God’s approval of Jesus as His Beloved Son of whom He is well pleased, and immediately in the next chapter that follows, He was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The question is, why would God lead His children through the wilderness after such a display of His Almightiness? In Matt 3:16-17, after Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist, the heavens were opened. In the scriptures, the wilderness was particularly connected to the Israelites after the miraculous parting of the red sea as they journeyed to the promised land. The wilderness is an unpleasant place that is riddled with lack and uncertainty. A close synonym for wilderness is the desert, where there is a scarcity of water which is essential for life. Wilderness is literarily often thought of as a barren, uninhabited wasteland.

Led by the spirit into the wilderness