When people say they are spiritually dry they usually mean they feel distant from God, that they’re struggling to grow spiritually or that they don’t see God working. They feel discouraged.
Those are emotions…
But you can choose which emotions are operating in your life. Emotions are a conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feelings usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body. A state of feeling.
The burdens of life seem to be pressing in on you…
This is what most people are thinking about when they use the term “spiritually dry.” Usually when this happens (he feels) it’s trying to stop you from moving into something. It’s trying to stop your breakthrough. Most of the battle is won or lost in your mind.
Jeremiah 17:7-8
7 But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.
8 They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes, its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.
When you don’t trust in the Lord or you have a hard time trusting in the Lord, that’s going to be the reason you’re spiritually dry. Bad news – No hope. If you keep God on the sideline instead of in the midst, you won’t make it.
There’s a spot in your heart that has been developed for God only to occupy and when you try to substitute it for other things it’s not going to work. You can try the doctors and medication but there’s something about Jesus that offers you something that doctors and the medications can not give you.
What do we do to make sure we don’t enter into spiritual dryness?
Psalm 16 vs 11 says it best. 11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
It’s your personal relationship with Jesus when you’re not at church that’s going to make the difference in everything that you do. Going back to Psalm 16 vs 11. To omit this path or choose another path you’re not going to make it. There’s a way that seems right unto a man but at the end of that path is destruction. God is the way, the truth and the light, this is the path of life.
The key to avoid spiritual dryness…
Is to make sure you’re practicing the presence of God by making contact with him everyday through prayer, the study of his word, praise and worship and through fellowship with other believers.
Your life is about being in the presence of Jesus. Whatever you give your attention to the most is what you’re going to be able to do easily.
These are exerts taken from a sermon by Minister Creflo Dollar.
Proverbs 4:20
20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
