This document discusses how God used wilderness experiences to humble, test, teach, and strengthen biblical figures. It provides examples of how God led Moses, Jesus, and Elijah into the wilderness for 40 days. The instructor encourages students to observe nature, journal spiritual insights, and use both classroom and outdoor settings to spend quality time with God and build His kingdom.

1. Instructor: Barbara D. Johnson Fall 2010 Tactile Retreating for Kingdom Building

2. Exodus 31:17-18 (New International Version) 17 It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested.' " 18 When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God. Moses Retreated

3. Deuteronomy 8:2-4 (New International Version) 2 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Israelites Sent to Wilderness for Testing

4. Matthew 4:1 1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. Jesus Sent to Wilderness for Tempting

5. 1 Kings 19: 3-4, 7-8 3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. …went a day's journey into the desert. 7 The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you." 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. Elijah Sent to Wilderness for Strengthening and Refreshing

6. Objectives examine examples in the Bible where God revealed Himself through nature learn to create a quite place to spend quality time with God observe some aspect of nature and journaling the spiritual principles experienced write a personal Psalm or a song about God. both classroom and natural learning environments. Tactile Retreating for Kingdom Building

7. Instructor: Barbara D. Johnson Fall 2010 Tactile Retreating for Kingdom Building