Today and over the next maybe six weeks we’re going to look at meeting god in the wilderness and we’re going to look at desert experiences of life, you know, oftentimes.

We look at certain things in the Bible; We look at the mountain experiences of the Bible, we know the mountaintop experiences and our victories and our all the things that we’ve achieved and on that mountaintop is you feel closer to God.

You’re higher up you’re above everything and you can just feel the fresh air and those mountaintop experiences of our spiritual lives are so great.

And we understand what the valleys are those valleys that are sometimes long sometimes difficult sometimes hard sometimes a bit darker but they are necessary in order to get to the mountain.

There’s lots of valleys in the Bible. There’s lots of mountains in the Bible.

But, what about those wilderness experiences? What about those deserts, as it were? Because there are plenty of people who go through desert experiences in the Bible. I mean, the one that probably comes to our mind more than anything is the 40 years the children of Israel spent in the wilderness….