The ultimate purpose of God in the Israelites’ journey into the wilderness is to continuously build up and strengthen their faith through testing. How do they respond in this testing, and how does God deal with them?

What kind of diet does God place the Israelites while in the wilderness and how does He help them to persevere in it?

One of the biggest problems of the human heart is that the more God blesses us with material things the more we mistakenly try — and fail — to find contentment in those things. This is the attitude of the Israelites during their journey into the wilderness.

When it comes to our relationship with God, we are not called to settle; we are called to always want more. Our end goal as Christians is to be conformed to the image of Christ. That’s our Canaan — that’s where all Christians are headed.

When the Israelites made it across the Red Sea and witnessed how God defeated their enemies by pouring on the Egyptians the very waters of the sea that were held back for them, the very first thing they did after crossing over from slavery to freedom, and from death to life, was to sing a […]