Come Out of Your Wilderness

By Flora Bolding

It saddens me to learn that so many Christians and churchgoers do not know if they are saved, born again, or going to heaven, or if they know the importance of God's Word. I saw God's people perishing because of their lack of knowledge of God. I would ask, "Are you saved?"

The answers would be, "I hope so. I go to church, and I sing in the choir," etc. I would grieve at these answers. Some lack knowledge because no priority is placed on the Word of God or preaching the Word of God or reading the Bible.

I spoke in many churches, taught the Bible, and preached the Bible. I found some perishing because they rejected the Word of God. Some thought the message that was given from the pulpit on their day of worship was all they needed. Some thought being baptized was the born-again experience. Some thought going to the building was an act of salvation. When the Holy Spirit taught me the truth, I was sorrowful each time I would visit a church. I felt death, spiritual death. I prayed, "Lord, please teach Your Word or preach Your Word to the people. Please let it be Your truth." I was burdened for years, and the Lord anointed me to be a part of serving His truth and His Word. Thank you, God.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798888326961

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Come Out of Your Wilderness

Flora Bolding

ISBN 979-8-88832-695-4 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88832-696-1 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Flora Bolding

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Mary's Wilderness: The Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus

Ask Joseph: Joseph's Wilderness

The Israelites' Wilderness

Things That Hold You in Your Wilderness

Jesus's Body: His Church!

Another Wilderness

The Truth: Walking in Truth Will Lead You out of the Wilderness

Paul Speaks by Permission and Not of Commandment

The Church: Body of Christians

The Word

Resources

About the Author

Introduction

What led you into the wilderness? There is a way out.

It's not what your dad did or what your mommy did or what you did. Come out!

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost [Spirit] returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness,

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. (Luke 4:1–2 KJV)

Wilderness means an uncultivated, uninhabited, or barren region; a multitudinous and confusing collection (the Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary).

As children of God, we have the authority to deliver ourselves.

The Holy Spirit will lead you in the way you should go to free yourselves from your wilderness.

When God sent Abram/Abraham to possess the land,

God said to Abram, Get thee out of thy Country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show you, And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make you great, and you shall be a blessing. (Genesis 12:1–2 KJV)

Abram became Abraham (father, exalted one). Abram left Egypt. He believed in God and followed God's directions. God counted Abraham's actions as righteousness (in right standing with God). The father of faith and all who believed God and followed His ways are the seed of Abraham.

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, are the same are the children of Abraham. (Galatians 3:7 KJV)

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Galatians 3:14 KJV)

Gentiles: the Hebrew word meaning nations, other than Israel.

God uses the word nations instead of races or color.

Faith is followed by actions and movement. When a person says they believe there is a God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and salvation, there must be an action following, believing, and receiving what is given.

Upon believing and receiving the Word of God and doing the Word of God as you learn of God, there will be external evidence. Wherever the Word of God has roots, the Word will dominate your hearts. You will have higher moral standards and see yourselves as more valuable.

Unfortunately, man, for the most part of our lives, has rejected God's directions and has made and followed our own laws and desires.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (1 Chronicles 7:14)

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (Numbers 23:19)

Did we check the manual, the Word of God?

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject