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Forty Years of Preparation
Tags: daily bread, hardships, kingdom of God, Promised Land, provision, sustenance, trials, wilderness
Thought for the Week:
"Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God." (Acts 14:22)
Commentary:
Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. (Deuteronomy 8:5)
Before God can entrust us with great things, we must prove faithful with the little things. Yeshua says, "He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much" (Luke 16:10). God tested the children of Israel for forty years in the wilderness before bringing them into the Promised Land to humble them and to see if they would remain faithful to Hi…
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