When Yeshua (Jesus) received the Holy Spirit, He was immediately led by the Spirit into the wilderness. It is the same for us when we receive the Holy Spirit. We are led into a wilderness experience so that we will know that our fulfillment comes only from the Lord. If we are hungry, we feed on Him. If we are thirsty, then we go to Him and drink. And out of our innermost being will flow rivers of living water.
Show Notes:
Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is observed by building a Sukkah. This is done to remember how the children of Israel lived in the wilderness for forty years. During those forty years, the Lord led them and provided everything for them. In the wilderness there was no water except the water God provided. There was no food except the food God provided. There was nothing they could depend on except God. And this is the lesson of the wilderness for us as well.
You can go through times in your life when you feel like you are in a wilderness, when things have dried up for you spiritually. You are hungering and thirsting, but there is nothing in the wilderness that can satisfy you. That is for a reason. God wants you in a place where it is only you and He, where there is nothing for you to reach for except Him, where you can learn to depend wholly on Him, just as Christ did when He said that He could do nothing without the Father.
It was on the last day, the Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles that Yeshua proclaimed, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.” That is how rivers of living water will flow from us. But He also said this concerning the Holy Spirit. And just as the Holy Spirit drove Yeshua into the wilderness, so He does with us. The Spirit positions us in that place of hunger and thirst for God so that His living waters can constantly flow from us. That is the greatest answer we can have for ourselves and for the world.
Key Verses:
- John 15:19. “The Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing.”
- Deuteronomy 8:1–11. “You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness.”
- Deuteronomy 8:15–17. “He led you through the … wilderness … to do good for you in the end.”
- John 7:37–39. “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”
- Mark 1:9–13. “Immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness.”
- Jeremiah 29:13–14. “You will … find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
- John 3:34. “For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure.”
Quotes:
- “God is working with us to do good to us, to bring the blessings and the promises to us, which He’s promised to our fathers, which He promised to Israel, which He’s promised through Yeshua.”
- “The greatest answer the world could have right now is a spiritual hunger. It’s a spiritual thirst. Because if we can truly see a world that gets hungry and thirsty for God, we can see a world that can be saved.”
- “The Spirit doesn’t come and go. It rested upon Yeshua and never left Him. It drove Him into the wilderness, and He had His wilderness experience. But we know that was the making of the Son of God. Certainly, He’ll do nothing less for us.”
Takeaways:
- The wilderness experience is about God removing everything except Himself in our relationship with Him, in order that we can be multiplied, learn to live in Him, and possess what He has sworn to us and our forefathers.
- The world with all its technology does not have a solution for the wilderness it is in. There is only one solution! Hunger and thirst after God and pursue Him with all your heart. Only He has the answer for all the things you need.
- When we come to the Lord and drink, the Holy Spirit begins to flow out of us and drive us into the wilderness, which increases our thirst for Him so that it may continually increase until the Spirit flows from us without measure.
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