ive been feeling like...extremely dry in my faith lately and i dont know why...i still love God, pray to Him, read His Word, and know that He loves me...i dont know...i just feel so far from God for some reason...does anyone have any suggestions of how to feel better or closer? i think i just need some fellowship cuz i dont have a church yet...i just moved...can anyone relate to the "dryness"? thanks! stay up, the short one

not to be mean, but this should probably be in the Garden of Gethsemane. (sp??)

(oh, and your avatar could use a little resizing..) ;)

Hey. I've been in your shoes. I read my Bible, prayed, but yet felt like there was something else I was missing. But that thing was I wasn't active in church. When my mom stopped going like 2 years ago, I stopped going b/c she was my way there. But she finally went back and I started going back again. The first service, I didn't want to be there at all. But that's what happens when you drop out of it for a bit, your spirit seems to slowly decompose spiritually when you get away from it, but once you start constantly going back, the joy comes back that you can't wait to get to church.

The Bible does say "do not to forsake the assembly of the saints" and I think that's why, cuz once you're surrounded by your spiritual family, it just seems to bring more joy into you.

-J

im sorry im new and so i didnt know where to put this post...and i know its too big...im sorry...ive been trying to fix that...and im about to change it right now...anyhow...thank you SO much for the advice! thats what i thought it was...that i just need some fellowship...hopefully i can get to a church soon (i just moved so i dont have a church yet) and maybe get some fellowship here too! ;D thank you! stay up, the short one

sometimes we go through these times where God feels so far away...but in reality, He isn't. sometimes we're the ones who have moved away. sometimes it's God taking us through a test..."if you don't feel Me near you, will you still believe in Me and trust Me?"

don't worry, "this too shall pass." you're still in the Word and in prayer. you will come through the dry season.

Faith isn't feeling.

I've just been reading this book about worship, especially when you cant feel God's presence.But the thing is, that you know God is real, you know that He is faithful to His word, so the thing to do in that situation is to go back to the Bible and see His promises in there and to what God has spoken to you, and stand on that, not just your feelings. Yeah, it is uncomfortable and sometimes it is because we have been going away from God, but God is still there. He still exists.

Look to the Psalms for inspiration. Some of the guys there were going through awful times, they felt as if God had completely forsaken and forgotten about them, but pretty much every psalm thats like that, they mention the faithfulness of God and how God will crush their enimies and how He will be faithful to them and remember them.

I dunno, I feel like I'm being really impersona here, but it i out of my own experience that I've kept on at things I really didn't want to because I knew God wanted me there, and I have experienced His blessing in those things after yars of perseverance, so don't give up, God is there, and he does love you, eternally.

xbeccax

not to be mean, but this should probably be in the Garden of Gethsemane. (sp??)


Just send a message to Unshakeable and he can move it. ;D

BTW, I don't have any tips for you, lil_bittee, because that seems really :Pish (doesn't make a lot of sense). Just keep doing what you're doing. It might get better eventually...

ur always in Gods presence. feelin' it is up to you