Wings in the Desert / Destined for the Desert

(14) Shane Vaughn Preaching "Wings in the desert" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPtzGVBDeKE Transcript: (00:10) I have a message that God has put on my heart for the whole world to hear I wish that was possible but you are listening and there's a reason that you listening today God has given me a message entitled destined for the desert and I want to talk to some of you that are going through the hardest times that you've ever gone through in life there are many of you that are watching me there's people all around you you can see people's mouths moving you can see the whole world going by but yet it's like you're the only person in the whole (00:53) world you've got people everywhere but you're alone it's as if you are in a cocoon Moon and you're the only person that exists in your world I'm watching people that say what have I done God your question is why are you silent in my time of trial and why am I in this lonely place that I am maybe it's cancer maybe it's prison maybe it's a hospital room but you are all alone and there is a reason many times times we ask God why must I live separated and alone why must I be the only one that is not happy in the world all my friends are happy all (01:45) of the world is happy but there's something about me that's always the Oddball I'm always the one coming up on the short end of the stick why do I have to have a disease when everybody around me doesn't why do I have to cry myself to sleep when everybody else is partying at the local bar and they're happy but yet here I am loving you and yet alone loving you and yet I'm the one that suffers while the whole world seems to go free do you ever feel like sometimes there's a dark cloud that just hovers over you and hangs around your life (02:30) I want to teach you today that perhaps that cloud is not a dark cloud perhaps it's the glory Cloud I'm going to teach you today where God's cloud in the Old Testament when he was leading the children of Israel every time the cloud stopped it stopped in the wilderness and in the desert and today I want to talk to you that the reason that you are alone the reason that you are separated is because God is preparing you he is not preparing the world he has called you into Solitude and is preparing you to take his message to the world about his (03:18) glory and in order to prepare you in order to use you you must go to the institution of isolation God never deals with you in the city he always deals with his people in the desert God never deals with you in the crowd of people God deals with you in the testiness of the night God deals with you when he can get your attention and sometimes it's drastic measures that God must take to get you to where you're destined for everybody that's watching this broadcast every everybody wants to know their Destiny what is my destiny well turn on (04:04) the television and you'll hear many different things you'll hear that your destiny is greatness you'll hear that your destiny is power you'll hear that your destiny Is wealth and all of these Myriad of mistakes I've come to preach you a different message today I've come to tell you that your destiny is the desert God and all of his power could care less about your happiness he wants your wholeness and to get you whole he must bring you to the Solitude of being forgotten he must bring you to the prison House of Pain he must bring you (04:48) to the hospital room of hopelessness for it is in that place that God deals with his people it is in that place where God will position you for your next level everybody wants the next level I'm so sick of hearing about the next level everybody wants what God you are not ready for what God has cuz it's going to hurt it's going to hurt it's going to hurt oh my god when you're by yourself in the Midnight Hour and everybody you preach to and minister to not one of them's there for you it's going to hurt when you ask God for the (05:26) next level what you're asking him for is to take me to the desert because it is in the desert that God delivers you from bondage you are there in that desert because of one reason if you think for a second that a great ministry is born by being called out of a service and somebody laying hands on you really oh that it were that simple if you think that your ministry is going to be great because you get a degree in your hand from a Bible College how foolish you've been the only ones that will ever shake the world for the (06:10) glory of God is those that have met him on the backside of a desert when nobody could be found I'm talking to somebody that you don't understand why God has forsaken you you don't understand the Dark Cloud I'm going to tell you there is beauty in the desert and when you begin to understand that it is in that place of solitude that God is training you to need nobody but him when you've been in the desert and there's no food there's no water there's no help in the mailbox from nobody it's just you and God something begins to develop something (06:56) begins to form a trust begins to form when all of a sudden there's Mana in your desert you don't know how it got there it's impossible to have gotten there but God in his Sovereign Grace has blessed you in the desert somebody watching me right now maybe you're on a hospital bed and you're in a desert and many people on TV are telling you you're not supposed to be there you're supposed to be in the palace I want to tell you God never called anybody from a palace he never called them to a palace he called everybody to the desert and in (07:33) your life you're going to know if you're praying God use me now if you're not praying that you don't know what I'm talking about but there's somebody watching me knows exactly what I'm talking about I was forsaken as a baby by my own mother why because God had better plans for me than having a mama God had plans for me to touch the world with the Gospel of Jesus I was praying the other day and I said Lord when is it going to be my time for happiness and the Lord said Son there are some people born with greater Destinies than (08:06) happiness they're born with purpose and and and and power and a future that the world don't know anything about brother vanon I just want to be happy not me I've gone past happiness I've grown past happiness and I have found happiness in being alone with God letting him break me let him break you today it's in the breaking that he will bless you remember remember at the communion table Jesus Took the bread but before he could bless it what did he have to do he broke the bread your blessing and then after he (08:41) blessed it what did he do he gave it before God can give you to the world he must pull you away he must hide you he must break you he must make you a home in the desert of God it's not an easy place oh no brother V's been there you don't know my story order the book it'll blow your mind I was pulled away by God for three long years forsaken by the world everybody counted me out it's over with Van is over but what they didn't know where God had me he was teaching me his word training me and breaking me and causing me to know that the end would be (09:28) much better than the beginning but I can't get to where I've got to get to unless I go through what I've got to go through and I want you to listen to me today turn with me now to the Book of Revelation chapter 12 we've been studying in this book for a while I want to talk to you before I read that though I want to talk to you about the Wilderness and I've got a hurry my time's already gone God Have Mercy I've never been in a real Wilderness but I have been out to Prescott Arizona I've been to Tucson and I've been to some of those places and (10:00) went to the High Desert California and I've stood there all by myself and you know child of God all that was out there the desert is an uninhabited place oh yes nobody lives there why because if you're going to live in the desert you have to be supernaturally provided for there's no water there's no food and there's no friends there's nobody out there you walk around and you see the wind blowing the wind is your only companion sometimes the wind wind is your best companion because the wind is the Holy Ghost when God brings you to (10:34) the Wilderness you're going to stand there by yourself there's no houses for you to knock on their door there's nobody give me some water there's one place in the wilderness and it's right here it's where you depend totally Upon Jesus Christ for your substance and that is right where he's determined to get you depending upon Him Revelation 12: 7 and there was war in heaven actually let's go down I don't have time to read all of this today but I'll read to you Revelations 12 and verse 6 it says and the woman which is God's Church fled (11:12) Into the Wilderness where she has a place prepared by God that they should feed her for three and a half years I want to tell you something and the Bible said there was given unto her the Bible says there was given unto this woman the wings of a Great Eagle that she might fly in the wilderness I want to give you a secret somebody that's watching me in the wilderness right now do you think God sent you there to kill you no he sent you there to Humble you and I can read in Deuteronomy when the children of Israel came out of sin where's the first (11:47) place God brought them to train them in the wilderness and if you will notice this woman has two great wings of an eagle what is that that is the symbol what did God tell the children of Israel I brought you out of Egypt on Eagles wings those Eagle wings is not by might nor by power but by my spirit when you get along with God maybe it's your disease maybe it's your loneliness your prison cell wherever you are right now there is something that will happen in that desert in that Wilder you will Sprout wings that you never knew (12:19) anything about you'll be able to fly when everybody else is crying you'll be able to go to the funeral of a dead loved one and while everybody's pulling their hair out some mystical reason you're all right why there's been a set of wings that has been given to this woman she may have to live in the wilderness what is the Wilderness separation the word for Wilderness separation pulled away from everything that's familiar from your religious background from your contacts pulled away in a separate place let me tell you (12:53) something when you're standing in the wilderness you're in the world but you're not of the world because out in that wilderness there's no cars going by there's no texting no emails you're living on the planet but you're not part of the planet you're now separated from the world the Wilderness is to separate you from the thoughts of television from the thoughts of Hollywood from the thoughts of politics from the thoughts of negativity it's to bring you into that place where God himself can give you two great wings that will cause you (13:26) to fly you don't have to die in your Wilderness you can get Supernatural strength and it comes to the church I'm out of time but there's one verse I want to give you in closing song of Solomon's chapter 6 I believe now check those notes to make double sure but I want to read this to you Song of Solomon chapter 8 and verse 5 it said talking about the Bride of Jesus Christ it said who who is my beloved that cometh out of the Wilderness leaning on her beloved you see there's the purpose of the Wilderness the bride comes out of the (14:18) Wilderness with full trust that God's going to take care of it I don't know what you're going through today I haven't touched this sermon I've desecrated it actually but there's somebody watch in you're in the wilderness of your life you didn't ask for cancer you didn't ask for your husband to leave you with those four children you didn't ask for your employer to lay you off right now you didn't ask for any of this and and your question is why is God mad at me maybe it's something totally different maybe it's God proving to (14:55) you I'm going to give you Eagle wings to mount up see they that wait on the Lord in the wilderness and don't try to run out of it what do they do they mount up with what Eagles Wing God's Own Spirit God's Own Strength those years that I was away I would weep at night and yet I felt such a presence that surrounded me no friends no family but I was falling in love with Jesus and now I want to tell you something who is this woman coming out of the Wilderness leaning on her beloved it's the church that has been tested and (15:38) separated from the world God is calling you today to fall in love with the Wilderness you know what the Wilderness of pan meant in the Old Testament Beauty brother Von how can you call the Wilderness Beauty because I know what happens in the wilderness where did John the Baptist come from did he come from the local church no the Bible said he was in the wilderness God Was preparing him for his ministry around the world my time is gone I love you today and I release a blessing over you from yua hamashiach our Lord Jesus Christ (16:12) wherever you are I greet you and I send God's blessings your way lift up your wings and fly it shall pass I wanted to take a moment and speak to all of my friends and supporters across the world that watch Zion's call first of all I wanted to say thank you for all of your support I wanted to thank you for your help for the words of encouragement that you send me every day either on the Internet or by phone or by mail and I wanted to stop and just let you know what God is doing a few days ago when I received a phone call from (16:49) the president of this network about starting a television broadcast I had to pray long and hard about that decision because there's a million preachers on TV and I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going on television just to be on television and then I realized that there is a message that this ministry preaches to the world a message about going from Mount Calvary to Mount Zion a message about enduring to the end a message about overcoming addictions and sins in your life and how to do that and I didn't hear that message being (17:26) preached very much and so I knew that we had a message but of course we really didn't have the means the cost is astronomical for the airwaves but God is opening so many doors right now I received a call just yesterday from the foothills of Tennessee seven stations that want to add this program to 30 million viewers by dish and Direct TV and then we want to do more time on this station and in Mississippi we received a phone call call from the cable networks there they want to air our program and what we need is God through you to help (18:07) us do that we are asking you today if you've been blessed by this broadcast there's going to be an address at the bottom of this screen I have no holy water to sell no prayer cloths to sell no gimmicks at all just a plea for those that would like to help this ministry go to the next level and meet the need that the people have we invite you to support us today God bless you for anything you send or anything you do and I pray that you will be part of Zion's call again God bless you in advance for what the Lord lays on your heart to help us go (18:45) across the world with the message of Zion God bless you as my prayer oh [Music]