Deuteronomy 32:13b-14 . . . and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag, with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats,with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape. (When the Lord led His people into the Promised Land, coming first to the eastern side of the Jordan and the Gilead area, they were able to gather food from the trees already there and to reap the grain harvest from the fields that had already been planted. They were able to gather honey from the date palms and oil from the olive trees, and even reap fruit that grew in rocky soil, soil that He would enrich and cause to bear fruit and grain for His people. Their herds by which they measured their wealth would increase and would yield to them sustenance to eat and drink. Today, the Lord has also delivered us from bondage through salvation. He has led us through wilderness areas in our lives as we learn obedience. Now He has led us to the Promised Land of new life in Him and He promises us that He will cause us to eat the fruit of the life He has for us, that He will feed us with the bread of heaven and the wine of His sacrifice. He will enable us to reap where we have not sown and to harvest what we have not planted. He will cause even those rocky and unproductive places in our past, as well as the challenges of the present, to align with His purposes so that good comes out of even the failures and so that they, too, yield fruit in our lives. He will cause us to prosper in Him, giving us the wealth of the life He has designed for us.)
