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faced a great insult, are broken and alienated, God will make them disappear and make a new path. Job did not know that God was making a new path and blessing him with a double blessing. Job did not know his God but he continually believed in Him and came out of his problems. The troubles and the fears are temporary. A new path will arise for us. God will make a new path in the wilderness because He is Lord Jehovah. Our God who is the Lord of hosts will prepare a highway in the wilderness. We will testify of it. Glory will come out of the wilderness experience. God will heal us and revive our spirit. Hallelujah! Isaiah 43 : 20 Says, The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and owls: because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. In our wilderness, when God makes a path, rivers flow and give a remedy. Then only praise will come from us. Hallelujah! Our troubles will lead us to a goal. Our problems have a purpose. We make conclusions that our future is dark. No! A new path, a new route will be made which will only bring praise from us. People will be amazed at our status and situation. They will know that our God is extraordinary and accept only Him. They will worship Him as the true God for bringing us out of the situations and blessing us. When we are engulfed in a sea of problems, God makes a path through the sea 1Peter 1: 7 Says, That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tired with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. The carat value of Gold increases step by step as it We may say that is purified in the fire. We get probwe do not have a single drop of lems only to increase our glory water to drink in the wilderness. but not to degrade ourselves. In But be ready for rivers. Our body order to increase the measure of may be in pain all the time, but faith in us, we get the problems we will gallop like a gazelle. In and there is also a delay. As the our unfavourable situations, if fire makes the Gold pure, tempwe give God the time, then he tations and trials make us shine will satisfy us, revive our spirit like Gold and we get a whole lot and make a new path. of testimonies. Only praises will flow out of our mouth and people will know how great our God is. The greeting, “Praise the Lord” Isaiah 43 : 21 Says, will have some significance beThis people have I formed for cause there is a testimony bemyself; they shall shew forth hind it. God has planned it in that manner. Our trials, troubles, my praise. temptations and strifes lead us Pontius Pilate said, “Your life is in my hands”. Jesus said, “If I give an order thousands of angels will come from Heaven. But I have come to shed blood and die for humanity” 17