Numbers 11:1 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when

he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. 2 When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down. 3 So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them. 4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. 6 But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!"

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Roadblocks to Breakthrough
I. II. III. IV. Uncontrolled Words Uncontrolled Emotions Uncontrolled Thoughts Uncontrolled Desires

Uncontrolled Words

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Numbers 11:1 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

Uncontrolled Words
Numbers 11:1 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. comptemptous complaint disrespectful complaint fearless complaint unrestricted complaint walang preno

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Proverbs 18:21 The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences. (Pro 18:21 NLT)

2. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. (Jam 3:6 NIV) 3. 12Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, 13 keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies.
(Psalm 34:12-13 NIV)

Israelites were complaining badly about the Lord! Bakit pa siya nakialam, sana pinabaayaan nalang kami sa Ehipto, ano ba yan gugutumin lang pala kami, akala ko promise land pero ngayon palang nagpropromisorry note na ako, pinakialaman tayo tapos pinabayaan naman, ang hirap-hirap ng kalagayan natin! mabuti pa bumalik na lang tayo sa dati

(Numbers 14:27-35 NIV)

"How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites. 28 So tell them, 'As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say: 29 In this wilderness your bodies will fall--every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. 30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected. 32 But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 For forty years--one year for each of the forty days you explored the land-you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.' 35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die."
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Jobs Complaint
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"Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard? 13 When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, 14 even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, 15 so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine. 16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning. 17 "What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention, 18 that you examine them every morning and test them every moment? 19 Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant? 20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who sees everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?1 21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more." (Job 7:11-21 NIV)

After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. (Job 42:7 NIV) 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation." (Exo 34:6-7 NIV)

Uncontrolled Words
Pray the Word! Speak the Word to your Situation! Talk about the Word! Sing to the Lord His Word! Declare Your hope and trust to the Lord! Release faith into your Circumstances!

The Israelites lacked faith in God despite of the signs and wonders He had showed them for their freedom from slavery!

Uncontrolled Emotions
The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat!
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Negative people affects other people negatively! Unruly people influences other people to become unruly!

Uncontrolled Emotions
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it." (Gen 4:7 NIV) The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires. (Pro 11:6 NIV)
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Uncontrolled Emotions
1. Cain was Envious, Jealous, and Angry at Abel. He was not able to MASTER his own emotions. His own evil emotions controlled him, instead. 2. When uncontrolled our EMOTIONS can imprison us! It can hold you back from MOVING ON!

Uncontrolled Thoughts
The LORD detests (hates) the thoughts of the wicked, but gracious words are pure in his sight. (Pro 15:26 NIV)
Gracious thoughts gracious words!
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Let the wicked forsake (abandon, give up) their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. 9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa 55:7-9 NIV)

Uncontrolled Thoughts
v 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
Minds focused in the pleasures of the past Imagining the Past Mesmerising the Past

Uncontrolled Bodily Desires

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. (Rom 6:12-13 NIV)
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Uncontrolled Bodily Desires

Numbers 11:6

But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!" Were they hungry? No! Focused on Bodily pleasures and appetites and wants!

Uncontrolled Desires
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
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Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to

gratify the desires of the flesh.

(Rom 13:13-14 NIV)

Reason for Manna Provision

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and 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 ancestors 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. 4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. (Deu 8:2-5 NIV) He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me." (Deu 8:16-17 NIV)
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Food as an idol or a god

For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. (Phi 3:18-21 NIV)
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Ephesians 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. (Eph 2:1-3 NIV)

Walking with God!

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Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninetynine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. 2 Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers." (Gen 17:1-2 NIV)

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Walk in obedience to all that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess. (Deu 5:33-1 NIV)
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If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow--to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him-23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. (Deu 11:22-23 NIV)

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. (Psalm 84:11 NIV)
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When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; when you run, you will not stumble. 13 Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life. 14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. 15 Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way. (Pro 4:12-15 NIV)

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So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this

will not inherit the kingdom of God.

(Gal 5:16-21 NIV)

Roadblocks to Breakthrough
I. II. III. IV. Uncontrolled Words! Uncontrolled Emotions! Uncontrolled Thoughts! Uncontrolled Bodily Desires!

When You Walk in the Spirit

NO MORE Roadblocks to BREAKTHROUGH!
Gracious Words! Godly Emotions! Godly Thoughts! Godly Bodily Desires!

Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. (Psa 37:4 NIV)
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Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
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Psalm 37:4 Make Yahweh your joy and he will give you your heart's desires.