God led Moses and as many as 2 million Israelites out into the wilderness, they had no food or water and no means of sustenance. God did it for His own reasons. It says in Deuteronomy 8:3: “So he humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live on bread alone; but lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.”
In the heat of the desert, food and particularly water are essential for survival. God’s leading was to a place of extremity, He knew the children of Israel would die without food and water. In Exodus 20 the children of Israel came to Moses and said “If only we had died; when our brethren died before the Lord! Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into the wilderness, that we and our animals should die here?”
Moses was under pressure. He was between a rock and a hard place. Between the rock of Meribah and the desert. Most people would have packed it in at this point, but Moses went to the Lord in prayer and God gave him the answer he needed. God was not intimidated by the impossibility of the situation, He simply said “speak to the rock and it will yield its’ water.” And while Moses didn’t obey the instruction perfectly, a miracle happened. Literally millions of people were saved by a miracle of God. Their lives were spared. If God had not intervened, they would have died.
I believe God has us in the ministry in this kind of place and we want to continue to believe God will supply the financial resources we need to bring the gospel to countless thousands who will die spiritually without hearing it. God is wanting us to trust that He will supernaturally sustain this ministry. I also believe God has brought us to this place because He wants us to believe that we will have the ability to supply the living water of the Spirit to countless thousands who would die spiritually without it.
My mentor in the ministry wrote in his recently published book: “God is demanding that the Church stop being busy and start being effective. A mandate from the Almighty has been ordered: Lost humanity must be presented with the light of the Gospel! Souls by the millions now sit in darkness, at the door of death. Today, many have Ph.D degrees and doctorates of divinity, but they have no heart. Every time the pendulum of your clock swings, someone who is ignorant of Christ’s salvation gasps in hopeless despair – their plight, a Christ-less eternity. About one million people in the world die each week without Christ. Does this mean nothing to you? Have we pain in our hearts for perishing men and women? Are you haunted day and night with the thought that millions are perishing on every side, that multitudes are going down to the regions of despair without one ray of hope?”
This quote paints a fairly clear picture of the desperation of the situation we are faced with in the world we live in today and it provides the steel for the resolve we have as a ministry to persevere and believe God for miracles. When our circumstances look bleak we continue to look to God and we know He will give us the answers we need. We believe He will do the miracles needed. We believe He will make a way.
I am also trusting that for many of you that are in between a rock and a hard place that God will make a way for you. That the rivers of His Spirit will sustain you, that floods of provision will flow to end the droughts of poverty in your circumstances. I want to thank all of you who continue to pray for this ministry and who continue to stand with us in faith. We know “God is not slack concerning His promises, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)
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