God is in your wilderness season

Sometimes all we see in a wilderness season is the lack, loneliness, anxiety, stress and experience this feeling of overwhelming hopelessness. 

We think that God doesn't care and that He is not there. 

But He is..and He cares for you whether you're in the valley or on top of the mountain!

Draw near to Him - Make your first love your first choice today.

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hello and welcome this is the embracing
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Grace podcast and my name is Cindy I
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just wanted to share something quick
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with you uh so many people have recently
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been talking about being in a Wilderness
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and so often when we talk about being in
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a Wilderness we often think of times
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that are really hard and difficult and
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um you know you feel depressed you feel
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that there is no hope you there's no joy
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and and I know I've been there often
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times that is what you're experiencing
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you do feel that there is no hope and
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you know this the season that you're in
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just couldn't be any longer than what it
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is but I want to read to you um
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something that God highlighted for me
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some time ago it says but the land you
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are crossing the Jordan to take
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possession of is the land of mountains
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and valleys that drinks rain from Heaven
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it is the land the Lord your God cares
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for the eyes of the Lord your God are
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continually on it from the beginning of
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the year to its end you know how
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beautiful God is it's just such an
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amazing reminder that God's presence is
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always with us whether you're in the
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valley or whether or not you're on top
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of the mountain God's eyes are always on
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that Valley it drinks rain from Heaven
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There is provision in the time of being
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in a Wilderness in those Seasons when
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you feel you are alone I want you to
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remember that you never are and I'm
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going to read to you Deuteronomy
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31:8 where Moses is speaking to Joshua
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and he says the Lord himself goes before
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you and will be with you he will never
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leave you nor forsake you do not be
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afraid do not be discouraged you know
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what the Lord will never leave you nor
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forsake you it doesn't matter if you're
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in a Wilderness it doesn't matter if
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you're in the on the top of the
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mountain God is always there and that is
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the beautiful thing about being in
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wildernesses is that he is always there
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looking after you he's there providing
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for you he's caring for you there is
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provision and he is waiting for us to
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draw near to him so that he can draw
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near to us there is you know what even
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though God is there all of the time we
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have a responsibility to make time for
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God often we're busy we're feeling down
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we just don't have any energy or
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motivation to spend time with him I've
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been there I know what it's like but
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it's those times when I make a choice I
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don't know if I've actually done a
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podcast on this but the other morning I
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was really struggling to wake up to
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spend time with God being very open and
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transparent here it happens to all of us
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people all of us and
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I we had just come out of this holiday
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season where I was spending time with
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God at different times during the day
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but I do like spending time with God
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first thing in the morning but I was
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really struggling and I just heard the
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soft gentle voice of God saying make
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your first love your first choice and
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that just hit me so hard because we can
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set an alarm forward work and we get up
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because we need to get up for work that
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is the choice that we make we make work
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our first love we um prioritize the
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school run so because we have to we have
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to take the kids to school we have to go
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to work so God is saying make your first
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love that first choice in the morning
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that was a message for me there's no
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condemnation for those are in Christ
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right remember we hear two things we
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hear either with a heart of conviction
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which is from the Holy Spirit and that
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conviction is oh yo I need to think
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about that right I need to they might be
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something in my life that I need to
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change here or you're hearing this with
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a heart of condemnation where you go oh
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my gosh I never get up early to spend
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time with God I I try and squeeze him in
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any time that I can find there are
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seasons that we're going to go through
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that where we will try and squeeze God
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in but I think for me what I learned in
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that moment is I have a choice God's
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giving me the choice he said make your
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first love your first choice and we can
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take something from that so when you're
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going through these seasons of
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difficulty make your first love your
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first choice is when you're going
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through those tough times choose him
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choose to go spend time with him even if
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you don't feel like you're getting
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anything out of it I want you to know
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that God is there just open up your
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Bible find a scripture where it speaks
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about God's love for you and when we
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practice that you know our hearts will
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start to soften and sometimes it takes
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time none of us just slip out of a out
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of a a Wilderness season in a blink of
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an eye but if you're drawing close to
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God during your Wilderness Seasons
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you'll
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experience the drinking rain from Heaven
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the provision of God the love of God the
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healing presence of God just his
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manifest presence is so amazing that
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it'll remove all fear you know the word
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says God is love he is love it's not a
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feeling it's not a fleeting thing he is
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love and there is no fear in love so I
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want you to remember that your land that
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God is taking you into is a land that he
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cares for the eyes of the Lord of your
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God are continually honored from the
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beginning of the year to the end of the
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year that is all the time that is all
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the time because your years roll into
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one another so God is with you all the
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time I want you to remember that so if
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there is anybody that you know who is
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going through a difficult season share
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this message with them because they need
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to know that they are so loved by God
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when you're in a difficult season like a
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Wilderness season often times we shed
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many tears and I love
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that God says he catches our tears in a
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bottle that means he has to be right
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there with you to be able to catch those
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tears they are precious to
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him anything that is precious and means
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something to you means even more to God
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so share it with him in those times that
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when it really feels difficult you are
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loved and you are chosen by him you are
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Redeemed by him and I want you to
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remember that
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if you know of anybody that is going
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through a difficult time share this with
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them because they need to know that God
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loves them and that he's never left them
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please like and share and subscribe to
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the channel if this has touched you
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share it with your friends you never
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know whose life you are called to impact
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today I love you and I pray God's
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amazing love will just envelop you and
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that you will experience the joy of the
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Lord and that it will be your strength
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every every single day I want you ladies
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to be
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ignited with the heart of God because he
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has so much that he wants to share with
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you and if we're always focused on the
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lack and what we do not have we're going
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to miss what God has for you and God
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doesn't only have those good things in
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store for you he's got good things in
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store for everyone that you're meant to
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impact so grab hold of this message
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remember that he never leaves you nor
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forsakes you and always remember that
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you are loved you are chosen and you are
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redeemed God bless lots of love bye
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