How Does God Use "Wilderness" In Our Lives? | Episode 2

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How Does God Use "Wilderness" In Our Lives? | Episode 2 | Land Without Borders

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In this episode, host Jack Beck demonstrates how God uses spiritual wilderness in our lives as seasons for growth.
ABOUT THIS SERIES:
“Wilderness is not just an ecosystem-it’s a season of life.” - Jack Beck
Some of the Bible’s most familiar and powerful stories took place in the wilderness. The Israelites spent forty years in the wilderness. Jesus fasted in the wilderness for forty days, before He was tempted by Satan. Even the beloved “Shepherd Psalm,” Psalm 23, may have been inspired by the wilderness. In fact, the wilderness is mentioned more than three hundred times in Scripture.
Now, host Jack Beck ("The Holy Land: Connecting The Land With It's Stories") highlights the easily-overlooked truths of the wilderness-both the harsh, threatening ecosystem in which Bible people sometimes found themselves and the difficult seasons of life in which we often operate. By showing what the wilderness meant to people in Bible times, Jack also provides guidance for our own experience in barren times and places.
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Dr. John (Jack) A. Beck is a scholar, educator, and writer with extensive experience in biblical geography. He has a PhD in theology and Old Testament from Trinity International University and is an adjunct faculty member at Jerusalem University College in Israel. His passion is to make the wisdom of the Bible understandable to Christians, and he has been writing on the topic of biblical geography for more than sixteen years, both within and outside of the Middle East.

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@philomena8982 2 жыл бұрын

I am in the wilderness right now. 2 weeks ago,Holy Spirit led me to Deuteronomy 8 and Psalm 46:10!!! Unemployment, horrible chronic illness and being a single parent,that trust question has been a daily subject. God has been so faithful during this wilderness(and whole life) that thinking about his goodness to us,makes me cry.Thank you for this video.

@ourdailybread 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your transparent comments, Philomena. God's got you! He's fighting your battles! Deuteronomy 20:4 (NIV) For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”

@philomena8982 2 жыл бұрын

@@ourdailybread thank you for your words and that prophetic verse.God bless you!

@futureofmoney3527 Жыл бұрын

How are you doing these days Philomena?

@philomena8982 Жыл бұрын

@@futureofmoney3527 still going through so much but God has been faithful

@mariannecharissecorales9509 3 жыл бұрын

I'm actually now in a wilderness. And hearing these things gave me hope knowing that I have a 1) God that is more than capable 2) an ever trustworthy God 3) a God who will always be there for me. 😢😅❤️ Thank you so much. Praise the Lord forever and ever.

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

We are so thankful that God used this video in your life.

@sabineelvirejung8121 3 жыл бұрын

'Wilderness is the place where the question Will you trust me? means something. God bless!

@jeanpanel9689 3 жыл бұрын

“The wilderness humble us, test us and teach us” . Even living in cities we are facing our own wilderness in our very lives. But God will always be there for us.

@fikrutsegaye2803 Жыл бұрын

I complained about the wildernesses of my life and I believe the LORD has prompted me to this vid. Amazing God is teaching me, humbling me and testing me all for my good. Jesus cares for his children

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

To God be the glory!

@aliciaANDanthonySandoval 3 жыл бұрын

God is coming real soon. I can't wait for his second coming. Love you my god. God bless you all. In Jesus Name We Pray Amen Alicia🕊📿💫💖🙏🏼🙇🏼‍♀✝🛐🤲🏼💓🧡

@hopebadenhorst7402 2 жыл бұрын

In the wilderness of today God will guide us by reading His Word. When life knocks me down Jesus picks me up and its then that He walks with me.God has never let me down in my long walk of 82 years blessings from South Africa

@ourdailybread 2 жыл бұрын

Amen, Hope! Praise Him for His faithfulness!

@lottieingram7428 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I’ve had many wilderness experiences in my 57yrs but God has always brought me through. I needed this reminder of HIS faithfulness in all seasons of life.

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

Lottie, we're so glad this touched your heart today!

@tamarasmith7478 Жыл бұрын

In the wilderness, it's sometimes feels hopeless like this will never end. Through worship, reading and trusting God's word, praying and fasting, fellowshipping with bredren and with the help of the Holy Spirit HE helps you. The Lord Jesus will give you the strength to endure, keeps you moving forward and eventually HE helps u out of that situation. So many lessons and growth comes from those experiences and you see the Lord Jesus Christ and His purpose in a new light. It's like we are going through processes to be like gold and when we reach the final stage he remove u and places u with HIS precious stones.

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

Well said, @tamarasmith7478!

@wizzardofpaws2420 3 жыл бұрын

I often live in the wilderness. This is a good lesson. Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness to redeem Israel when he started his ministry that says a lot about our God

@ydzz3478 Жыл бұрын

..✝️God💫 knows our hearts BEFORE we EVEN...know ourselves. His test is for* us** to realise* the state* of our* hearts towards Him🔥🕊

@gordongraff9727 3 жыл бұрын

Wow what a amazing lesson , I really enjoyed it I can see Christ Jesus prints all over this , trust , faith etc Thank you Jesus Christ king of kings

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your encouragement, Gordon.

@ahamham4532 3 жыл бұрын

@@ourdailybread All the Glory goes to God. ☝💓😍Forever. Holy spirit outpourings.🌈🌈 💨💨Jesus teaches His own.😊📖👑

@craigcorkill 3 жыл бұрын

Can't begin to tell you how helpful this episode has been, particularly during the challenges of COVID. Thanks Jack and the team at ODB!

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

We are blessed by your feedback, Craig. Thank you.

@louisramirez5827 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, God, for bringing me out of my comfront, taking me to the wilderness, and giving me hope.

@meatheadjose2856 3 жыл бұрын

That was a great lesson praise the almighty God

@marktaylor1100 3 жыл бұрын

AWESOME lesson .. Well received in Jesus name , Amen !! Faith & Love

@margarettembo5043 Жыл бұрын

Am actually humbled to find you🙏May God bless His words😊

@zellenzevo 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to go on a biblical journey in the Holy land with Jack Beck as the guide. He is a good teacher and speaks to the scriptures very well in reference to his explorations, with history at each footstep. Sign me up for the next journey PLEASE... God Bless

@ahamham4532 3 жыл бұрын

You can go on a Biblical journey 24-7 👍just get a Holy Bible. 📖😍And ask Holy spirit Jesus👑 teacher.💨💨☝ To teach you, and talk to you in His Holy Word. 😃💓God knows His own. 💖👍Holy spirit is Our Wonderful Counceler.😅 See Isaiah 9:6-7

@cristinamagnanang1732 3 жыл бұрын

God really taught the people but was preoccupied with their past in Egypt, Lord help us to go on even when we experience wilderness in serving Him. He is with us. Thank you Rev for the actual demonstration.

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

We're glad you enjoyed the video, Cristina.

@juliuss155 3 жыл бұрын

Amen. Well said! Glory to God. As it is written, He must increase; I must decrease. Many times God also assured us, Fear not, I am the Lord your God. Not only that, His name itself "Emmanuel" means God is with us. What else is there for us not to put our full trust and confidence in Him? Almighty Father, may you always remind us to stay humble and to glorify you in all circumstances. Amen ❤️🙏

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

Amen, Julius!

@karlenebernard4828 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is good give to a better understanding of what it is like you listen and you see great

@ourdailybread 2 жыл бұрын

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@BethanyJuel Жыл бұрын

So blessed by this video as I walk in the wilderness 🤍

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

Bethany, may this time in the wilderness draw you close to Him. 🙏

@BethanyJuel Жыл бұрын

@@ourdailybread thank you 🤍 I truly enjoyed your videos 😌 So wild to see what I saw in a dream in real life. Well on video :) All I know is I am following a woman dressed in an old garment made of white :) I believe she is the Bride 🤍 When we get where we are going we will be drinking from the waterfall of En Gedi and be completely submerged in the water 🤍 Feels like such a long journey and it has only been three months lol Prayers sent your way 🙏

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your prayers!

@mariaalfonsi4746 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou for this timely teaching, I needed this encouragement in the midst of a painful family crisis.🧔👀

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

Maria, we're glad this message encouraged your heart. Praying the Lord will be your Rock and Refuge through this crisis. 💗

@princesschintalli3620 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful lesson, Praise the Lord Amen

@ginapereira8948 3 жыл бұрын

What a blessing to of found you!! It is just as you say..thank you..how timely! ♥️

@mcoz6934 3 жыл бұрын

PROV 3:11-12 My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the LORD reproves him whom He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. HEB 12:7-11 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

@leemary4833 Жыл бұрын

Interesting study; great lesson. Thank you.

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, @leemary4833!

@docgenemd 3 жыл бұрын

A place where God asks the question: "Will you trust me." Israel struggled to answer the question - Jack Beck

@roriestannard9467 10 ай бұрын

God told me I’m in a wilderness season. I’m depending on him for money right now, I had to leave a well paying job due to mental health reasons. It was my dream job but I fell away from God and into sin after I got it. Very hard lesson to learn. I’m not sure where God is taking me in my wilderness season I just know I have to trust Him. I know He wants to prune and refine me of things unpleasant. I have been pressing in, doing tongues and worship and seeking His voice and watching sermons. I pray I’ll be able to walk this out as best as possible. I also fell into drinking and smoking after I lost this job so I’m fighting temptation, while at the same time God is teaching me what crucifying the flesh means and what was accomplished on the cross of Calvary by Jesus 2,000 years ago and what that means for our spirit man vs our sinful man.

@LinkinPauly 4 ай бұрын

Keep going. He is faithful, beyond our understanding.

@jianbach 3 жыл бұрын

Love seeing these "trek lectures."

@jasonwong4448 3 жыл бұрын

This video is a great reminder. Thank You. Amen. ✝️🙏🏽❤️

@christinahsu1092 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome way to understand the scripture.

@ourdailybread 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, Christina! We hope that you enjoy this series.

@maureenbradnock8456 Жыл бұрын

Amen such a profound message and encouragement Even one Year later

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

Maureen, thank you for the kind comment. 💛

@betsyhall5094 Жыл бұрын

I really learn a lot from Jack Beck in these series--I have read it all in the Bible many times--it just comes so much more alive when you see the areas and Jack is so very good at explaining the areas and the scripture and situations that go along and together with it all. Makes you feel like you are or were there!!!! Thank you so very much--please continue making these series!!!!

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

Hi Betsy! For more with Jack, please join us through the "Holy Land" series 1-3. Here's the link to start; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8h1e6iDuNm3g3k.html

@yunyun7090 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the lesson you provided us. It is instructional and helps me to understand the Bible more deeply.

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

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@franfrederiks1277 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed it also as I have visited Israel but not like this. I hear God saying to me today ponder the path you are on. And I ask what do you want me to do today Lord. So I am writing to my granddaughters, eating a great brunch, folding clothes, chatting with my neighbor and memorizing 2 Peter 3:5-9. Now I wonder how the rest of the day will go!

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

May the Lord guide the rest of your day as you lean into Him.

@teddyboy252 Жыл бұрын

More videos good lessons

@ourdailybread Жыл бұрын

Subscribe to our channel to view more enocuraging material, like this one!

@pricilladewet4904 3 жыл бұрын

Powerful teaching thank you God Bless!🕊

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

We're glad it was helpful, Pricilla!

@brotherraymond.harris.5694 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome illustration the Lord God bless you today and your family always.. Amen.

@ourdailybread 2 жыл бұрын

Amen. Thank you, Brother!

@AkulArdhala 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome way to understand the scriptures .. Praise be to our Lord 🙏

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

We are so glad you enjoyed this video! We hope you can view more on our channel!

@cvandijk9257 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and hopeful. It is very interesting to see and hear this from the bible and the landscape. Thanks.

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

We're glad you enjoyed it, C.

@colincolina6740 3 жыл бұрын

How Does GOD Use "Wilderness" in Our Lives? Deuteronomy 8: -to humble us -to test us -to teach us To humble, test & teach us: -our limitation as human -our dependence on HIM -man does not live by bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. -to observe the commands of our LORD GOD -walk in obedience to HIM -to rever HIM "Wilderness is a place with a question WILL YOU TRUST ME?" Wilderness is where GOD chose to demonstrate to HIS chosen people that they could trust HIM, that HE is trustworthy. GOD took them to wilderness to show them that HE is able to provide for them even in the land that lacks everything. GOD does not like arrogance. HE took them to wilderness to humble them by breaking them down to show them their limitation as human and to show them their dependence on HIM and that they could trust HIM when HE provided them with food and water at the land that lacks everything.... 🙏🙏🕊🙏🙏

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

Amen, Colin. May we trust Him during the wilderness times of our lives.

@mommaof6 2 жыл бұрын

Love it how you broke it down. Yeah it sounds like my season right now🙏

@alfiepostanes1276 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this video possible for us to see and hear you though I'm not there when you're taping this. From Paul's missionary journeys, Peter and until this season I was following this channel. As a Bible teacher, I saw othe some channel adding their own interpretation in their content, but this were all purely scriptural and indeed the Lord is so good and using this channel to visualize our fathers ministry. Thank you again and will pray for your ministry. Maranatha!

@ourdailybread 2 жыл бұрын

We are so encouraged to hear! Subscribe to our channel to view even more videos - here is one about Paul: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jc-PdJSnuN-8o30.html

@SOPEACEBESTILL 2 жыл бұрын

SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL! THANK YOU!

@blessaroma7480 2 жыл бұрын

I m sooooooo blessed.God blesss

@user-nm4sz1ub5m 28 күн бұрын

Amen 🙏💪✌️🙌❤️

@benjaminquek1093 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent, thank you

@wwpoof 3 жыл бұрын

I am beginning to wonder whether God knows what I am thinking and he's speaking to me thro your video. I am not sure if I am experiencing the dark night of the soul or if I am undergoing spiritual wilderness? In a nutshell, I am going thro a difficult time. Maybe it's the covid situation. I feel abandoned by God, that he's missing. As a result of the covid situation, all the churches in my country are closed. It's as if God has cut himself off from all his believers/ followers. And when I prayed to experience presence more thro other means, I encountered instead more and more nasty/ hellish people. It is as if God is pranking me. I started to be skeptical and even doubtful. Then your video headlines "wilderness" caught my attention. I won't say my faith is fully restored but your video is like a sliver of faint light in my dark moments. N just on this count alone, I am grateful bcoz it helps to remind me to keep holding onto him. ODB had been my companion previously, esp in difficult times. Now suddenly, it appeared again on my feed. Please pray for me ODB, thank you!

@ourdailybread 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! May He receive the glory that you are able to grow in Him with our videos🙌 We hope you can watch many of our other videos on our channel😊 Here is a great series: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jc-PdJSnuN-8o30.html

@ryansimpson3074 3 жыл бұрын

Hang in there friend. If the Son of God himself went through trials and tribulations then yes if you are one of the Chosen Elect your faith will be tried. Jesus fasted forty days in the wilderness reminiscent of the forty years that Israel spent wandering. What do you get after forty days with no food ? Weakness. No strength. No vigor. No wonder the enemy launched his attack on the Messiah at that very point ! Jesus responded by quoting Scripture back at the enemy and.....eventually he fled. Ephesians teaches that the Word of God is a sword. Use it. Its power is infinite. At your darkest point (I have been there trust me) USE YOUR SWORD AND FIGHT BACK.

@nsp74 Жыл бұрын

perfectly said אמר בצורה מושלמת

@SOPEACEBESTILL 2 жыл бұрын

DO YOU OFFER THIS ON DVD?

@ourdailybread 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, J S. Here's the link to order your copy of the Holy Land Season 2; ourdailybreadpublishing.org/cds-dvds/dvds/the-holy-land-season-2.html

@robbykurnia9671 3 ай бұрын

because the person who wrote the Bible/Torah or whatever you call it never lived in the desert. The people who wrote the Bible thought Sinai was something like Montana/Wyoming where there were still animals to eat and enough water sources, when in reality Sinai is a cruel desert.

@teddyboy252 3 жыл бұрын

Indiana Jones of the bible

@adatruesdale381 Жыл бұрын

Wilderness is a place of testing. Will you trust me (God) when you can not trace Him. Amen 🙏