SPIRITUALLY DRY ?

Overcoming Spiritual Dryness In Our Daily Life With God

 

Have you ever had high-energy friends who live in a fast paced scenario and thrive on the high voltage culture, yet they seem to have a long-standing sense of spiritual dryness.

Following are a few simple suggestions for overcoming dry Quiet Times:

* In approaching God, it is important to slow down, relax, and give Him adequate time to break through to the core of our encrusted, pressurized souls. God simply will not be rushed!

* In our time with God, be sure our focus is not primarily on gleaning truth from the Scriptures, but on experiencing intimacy and fellowship with Jesus. Christ cautioned the Pharisees:

* Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.  (John 5:39)

* Prayerful meditation over a relatively small portion of Scripture usually proves more meaningful than attempting to cover a larger portion. Scheduled readings can have a stultifying effect on us.

* Keep in mind that meditation involves application.

In focusing on Psalms 23:1, for example, our prayerful meditation might go something like this:

“THE LORD is my SHEPHERD, I shall not be in WANT”

“O God, I pray that you are THE Shepherd of my life… I belong to you alone.“

“O Father, I surrender to your LORDship: My finances, career… everything.“

“Lord, because You are my SHEPHERD, I know I shall never be in WANT.“

* Strike a balance between prayer and worship. While pleading our petitions is important, we need also to understand that :

(1) God seeks our worship,

(2) Worship touches at the core of our need for intimate communion with Him.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.  (John 4:23-24)

* Keep in mind that Christ went to the Cross so that we could enjoy intimacy with Him:

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.  (1 John 1:3)

What a shame it would be to miss a life of intimacy with our Savior this side of eternity!