Thursday, March 26, 2009

Wilderness...with God??

Recently....i have been feeling like i'm in the Spiritual wilderness ...

I feel as if i can't feel God anymore when i pray, God doesn't seem to be answering my prayers and i am not as excited to go to Church services, Cellgroup meetings and even to serve in the Usher ministry.....felt that even something as simple as fellowshipping with Cellgroup members can be a drag.....



Do you have this Feeling??......
Do you guys feel the same?.....
Then Welcome to the wilderness.

I recently brought a book "Victory in the Wilderness" By John Bevere.
Inside this book have a Chapter that i would particularly like to share...

John bevere wrote that in our spiritual life, we will eventually come to a point where god doesn't seem to even answer our prayer and we can't even feel God's presence even in church....and some will begin to think why it is like that...And even begin to back away from God...(umm...sound like myself once...)
But the truth is this period is the period where God is preparing you for much greater things.

Remember in the Torah (first five books of the Bible), God lead the children of Israel into the Wilderness for FOURTY YEARS and they complained that the water is Bitter and there are no food ( even when there are Manna they complained again for meat and Vegetables)....Aren't we also like that...When we don't feel God or something happen that does not favour you ASK ( complain) why like this and why like that...
But to think again....Does God really Lead his people (that mean us) into some hardship or wilderness for no reason....NO! of course not.God's thoughts, ways and even the way he do things is higher than ours
God is Preparing us for what is at the other side (Exit) of the wilderness and he is waiting for us there. For the children of Israel, it is the promise land.God is still in your life, he is helping you as you face difficulties in the wilderness.
The point is...Don't give up in your spiritual walk with God as God is waiting for us at the end and he wants to reward us through breakthrough and blessings...imagine this you have children and you have promised to reward them if they scored good result for their exams.But imagine if they give up in the middle of revising for the exams as they felt that they couldn't do it and lead to
bad results, wouldn't it pain us too as we are eagerly preparing to fulfill what we promise to our children.....If you know what that feels, that is also a part of what God feels....

So....Don't ever give up in the Wilderness.....

Signing off...
Eric

W433 walking the walk at 12:53 AM