Dry Places
Have you found yourself in what seems to be a “dry place” in your walk with Christ? Many have referred to this “dry place” as the desert, a place where something is lacking, a place where it seems you are not hearing from God, and you feel as if He is not hearing from you. A place where you are having a hard time receiving, let alone believing, the word of God as well as His promises? Ever been there? (Freedom raises her hand) – I know I have. It was during these times (because you may go through this season more than once) that if I ever considered walking away from God, this would be the time.
Yet, let me encourage you, my fellow co-laborer with the Lord. To walk away from God would mean that you are walking away from a revealed, known truth. How? When you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, it was because He had revealed Himself to you and He IS truth. John 14:6 says, “...I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
Are you walking away because you feel as if you have been wasting your time, that God never really loved you, in spite of what His word clearly states in John 3:16, and Romans 8:31-39? God does love you, just as I do!
This is why I am sitting here writing this article. It would seem I stumbled across a scripture that jumped out at me when I was actually looking for another passage of scripture. Yet we know that in Christ, this stumble is always God directed.
Isaiah 58:11 states, “And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.” (NASB) Isaiah 41:18 says, “I will open rivers on the bare heights and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land fountains of water.” (NASB) Psalms 105:41 states, “He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.” (NASB) This scripture also goes along with John 7: 38 which says, “He who believes in Me [who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] as the Scripture has said, From his innermost being shall flow [continuously] springs and rivers of living water.” (AMP)
These scriptures are ALL promises of God that you can stand on in a season of a “dry place”. You do not have to stay there. God has given you His word as a life preserver to be used at all times, especially when it feels you are sinking deeper and deeper into a place of complacency or have become stagnant.
I challenge you: just as you would apply a bandage to a gaping wound in order to keep it free from infection and disease, apply the word of God to your life to keep it free from doubt and disbelief.
Are you walking away because you feel as if you have been wasting your time, that God never really loved you, in spite of what His word clearly states in John 3:16, and Romans 8:31-39? God does love you, just as I do!
This is why I am sitting here writing this article. It would seem I stumbled across a scripture that jumped out at me when I was actually looking for another passage of scripture. Yet we know that in Christ, this stumble is always God directed.
Isaiah 58:11 states, “And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.” (NASB) Isaiah 41:18 says, “I will open rivers on the bare heights and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land fountains of water.” (NASB) Psalms 105:41 states, “He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.” (NASB) This scripture also goes along with John 7: 38 which says, “He who believes in Me [who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] as the Scripture has said, From his innermost being shall flow [continuously] springs and rivers of living water.” (AMP)
These scriptures are ALL promises of God that you can stand on in a season of a “dry place”. You do not have to stay there. God has given you His word as a life preserver to be used at all times, especially when it feels you are sinking deeper and deeper into a place of complacency or have become stagnant.
I challenge you: just as you would apply a bandage to a gaping wound in order to keep it free from infection and disease, apply the word of God to your life to keep it free from doubt and disbelief.
