The Land Between is the place identified by the words “for now.” “for now I am…” the place between where you were and where you’re going. Like a college student identifies themselves by their major then graduate to a jobless “land between.” Like the prosperous business person crushed under a bad economy into an oppressive “land between.”

The Isrialites were in the desert between slavery and their promise.

The land between is fertile ground for Complaint

Throw yourself into leadership and you will know the desolation and misery of the land between. The point where you are pleading with God to take you out of “this place.”

Jeff relates his experience leading a church through a shrinking congregation during a rough time. He believed he was prepared for days of disappointment but not prepared for years of “being” a disappointment. Jeff relates the story of Moses in which God moves his burden from Moses to 70 elders so he doesn’t have to carry the burden alone.

“The Land Between” is fertile ground for God’s Provision.

I don’t know what that means for you but God loves to provide. The profit runs from Jesabel and prays for Death and God puts him to sleep. When he awakes he finds water and bread cooking over hot coals. “i was expecting him to get a lecture and God makes him Lunch.”

“The Land Between” is fertile ground for God discipline

When the children of isrial complained about the manna and wanted meat they rejected God and wished for thier slavery. Go gave them meat but then brought a plague and killed many.

“The Land Between” is fertile ground for transformational growth.

God wants us to trust him. When they leave Egypt they have been exposed to idol worship and still have the pov of slavery but God needs to transform them into God’s people. It is in the space between that God teaches us / transforms us into the people we need to be.
This place can also be the place where faith goes to die, it I for us to choose.

Inviting in Trust evicts Complaint, they ate incompatible roommates.

“The Land Between” is fertile ground where God does some of his greatest work.

Jeff Manion is Senior Teaching Pastor of Ada Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he has served for more than 25 years.