Spiritual Dryness

Spiritual dryness comes when we overextend ourselves and become too involved with life to take time to be alone with the Lord. Sin is another reason we feel dry and distant from God. The nation of Judah struggled with both of these problems. They were too busy, and they began to worship pagan gods - knowing all along that the Lord had told them,

Yet they ignored His command and suffered for it.

Yielding to sin and being too busy to worship God quickly leads to a divided mind and heart. If we continue along this track, we will begin to spend more and more time doing other things and less time in prayer with the One who loves us the most and died for our sins. Before we know it, we will feel tired, drained of energy, and just plain worn out. This is when Satan's forces begin to tempt us with sin.

Even in a world of turmoil, God wants to spend time with you. Relationship is at the core of His very being, and He desires your fellowship. How long has it been since someone has told you that he or she wants to be with you - just to talk and listen to what you have to say? God wants to do this for you.

Like our nation today, the nation of Judah was in desperate need of a revival. However, in order for this to happen, the people must express their need for God and, most of all, their desire to know Him in a personal way

How to Ask Effectively 3

i.             Stop Asking God for things you do not intent to use as worship unto Him;

It may interest you to know that some of us ask things from God so we could use it to cause others to live in strive, jealousy and even to prove a point to someone who we see as a fellow competitor. Even if someone close or around you seems to be provoking you like Hannah’s mate, Peninnah did to her (See 1 Samuel 1:6) you do not have the liberty to seek things from God to pay back your enemies. God has and will always be the avenger for His children. What we could do is to ask God to avenge Himself by granting us our request according to His will so that they could be shut up. When a request is motivated by worship for /to God the reply is suddenly. 

ii.           Learn the discipline of giving back to God in worship that you re asking of Him.

There’s something peculiar about people who knows how to ask effectively and that is, they have develop a strong heart for gratitude.

 A heart that has no problem offering back to God in worship that which he / she  has earnestly seek of Him. I must admit that I have often failed in this aspect. I have seen men aside the ones recorded in scriptures who have this wonderful attribute. I’m reminded of the likes of late Kathryn Khulman, a wonderful woman of God who God used to do extra ordinary things in her time.

She had a prayer line that always amazes me every time I listen to her tapes while she prays. She hardly ends a prayer without the line “And I promise to give You all the glory”. The lack of this kind of heart of gratitude towards God could be said to be a reason for most of the delay we encounter while asking.          

Hannah in her petition according to first Samuel chapter one verse eleven displayed this same attribute. While petitioning God for a male child she made a vow to Him and said if You grant this request of mine I will give him back to You in worship. And true to her word she did.

Many of us had in time past made similar vows and promises to God but never kept them. We didn’t keep to our promises not because we re not able to, but because we never intended to in the first place. And God knew and granted us our request in those instances to show us who we truly are. And this is while some other things we re asking Him for are still pending because He is aware that unless we develop the heart to give them back to Him in worship what we re asking of Him has the ability to destroy us if left to us without submitting them to Him in worship.    

There are much more ways of praying effectively, but until we master these few mention here lets not even  bother going any further in a quest to learn the rest of them.

One prayer I will really want to encourage you to pray right now is; “LORD help me to discipline my self to pray effectively”.

Nothing motivates God into responding to our request like when we have come to a place where all our hearts long for is His will for our lives. When our hearts are right towards God our asking anything from Him automatically become effective.

Since Men has mastered the act of praying without having any intention of turning their heart over to God in worship God has also learn to bear the act of watching them suffers from spending more than the required time necessary  to receive answers from Him when they pray to Him.

God bless you.