Wilderness Base Camp

Wilderness Base Camp
Saturday, January 2, 2016 by Hannah S. Hunter

Prayer and fasting go into each conference we hold in Kenya. I love the challenge put before me as I prepare to train. I love the diversity. Ex-prisoners, all tribes, university students, leaders from all corners of Kenya, church leaders, street people, and police persons come to these conferences.

My assignment was on raising radical warriors. The terrorist attack in Paris as I flew into Amsterdam should have been a clue. When I landed in Nairboi after three flights and two days, I requested we head right out to our base. Before the conference began, I wanted to pay my respects at Beatrice’s grave. She was buried on clan land two hours from Kilgoris. We were passing through Kisii county in the dead of night. I was chatting with our driver, Steve, to keep him awake. Our headlights caught a body lying in the middle of the main road we were traveling. I told Steve to stop. I did not know if person was drunk or injured. I feared someone would hit them. I saw it was a man in a suit. Steve is from Kisii. He told me, “We are in Kenya now. You do not stop. If you do, the police will detain you until they get answers.” I had not budgeted bail money. It bothered all of us in the car, but I learned to trust the locals to keep us safe.

Days later, we found out it was the body of a murdered politician. It is the custom to murder them and dump the body elsewhere so it is not easily traced back to the murderer. We knew the level of the battle and training needed would be ramped up a notch. We need to be deliberate and focused on equipping the generation of warriors who will take us into the end of time.

JESUS, John the Baptist, and King David had one thing in common. All were led to spend time in the Judean wilderness. We see wilderness as negative and harsh. I assert that it is the time the flesh is deprived and the soul is brought into submission. It is in this stripped-down atmosphere that GOD can freely download strategy and reveal the secrets of HIS heart.

Circumstances drive us to the wilderness. If our life is moving smoothly without incident we never seek the solitude or isolation a wilderness affords. An important part of the wilderness is the journey to the location, and home again. We must make a decision to leave behind all things familiar and comfortable. Equally important when completed is to emerge and assimilate back into the sphere GOD assigns to us.

If the wilderness base camp has found you graduating, three things will appear on your diploma. Your destiny will have been revealed. From the intimate time of separation with your CREATOR, HE will reveal the power and map of your future. HE will see you have everything you need to fulfill this destiny that is unique to you. No two look alike. There is no comparison or competition.

Most likely you will spend time wrestling with your GOD over some things. We are tenacious. We do not die quietly; ergo why we need to be isolated with HIM. Friends or spouses may help prop up a dead body. Because the second thing appearing on your diploma is your inheritance activated. It is nothing money can buy, but it can give you power to get all you need, including wealth. Some things defy imagination, which is why we need to be alone and undistracted when HE downloads the breadth of our true inheritance.

Finally, a promotion comes. Every warrior who passes basic camp gets a new title- a promotion. Promotions worth anything come from the exhausting, bone crushing demands of the course. Promotions may not be seen on earth, but they are recorded in heaven.

As I pray over each of those I train I say I have great expectations. In a few months time I will come back, and hear great things that my GOD is doing in you. I am never disappointed. When we enter the wilderness with HIM, we emerge a seasoned warrior ready to obey the tour of duty HE assigns. May this New Year find you in such a place of promotion walking in your destiny laying hold of your inheritance.

Blessings as we take courage!

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