Hey everyone, I just wanted to give you an update on where I am spiritually! So recently the Lord told me that I would soon be walking through a dry season with Him. When I heard this, I immediately felt discouraged. I didn’t want to go through this season because when I think of “dry seasons” I think of feeling distant from God. I always assumed God was just distancing Himself and testing me to see if I would live faithfully and do as He commanded but I think I had a really wrong mindset. The Lord revealed to me that this season is actually a time of becoming closer to each other and He wants to show me what it is like to walk through this season faithfully. He highlighted three things about what dry seasons should look like so I wanted to share those with you.
Dry Seasons Are:
1. A time of clinging to what He has spoken. We are blessed to have a Bible full of God’s promises, commands, and examples of what honorable living looks like. God really highlighted that He wants me to cling to scripture and to the promises He made and keeps with me. Often times, in dry seasons, the Lord speaks to me less than when I am in other seasons. One of my mentors told me to look at it like I’m a yo-yo and God is holding the string, there are times when He pulls us close to tell us things and there are times when He throws us out and it seems like He is distant but He is still holding the string. Dry seasons for me are often the times that He throws me out and asks me to remember the words He has spoken.
2. A time of testing. Am I going to look to the Lord even when it seems like He isn’t speaking? Am I going to continue to be faithful to Him when things are hard? What will my reaction be to when I can’t hear from the Lord? I can choose to rebel and disregard what He has said or I can choose to be faithful and cling to the words spoken before, even if I don’t hear them now.
3. A time that produces fruit. The Lord has really been proclaiming that this will be a time that will bear much fruit. He wants to walk with me through this so that when I come to the other side, I can say that I stayed faithful even when it got really hard. He wants to give me confidence that I can choose Him in all I do and that I am not distant even when it feels like it. He wants to be closer to me and He wants to show me that He will work all things for my good, even when they don’t feel good.
So, I am not sure exactly what this next season will be like but I know that the Lord will be good through it. I know that God has promised to be with me. I know that I am not distant. I know that the Lord is still there and encouraging me. I know this will produce fruit. I know that I am going to be grown and stretched and that it will hurt but I also know that it will be good.
I would love for you to be in prayer for this next season, that I will be reminded of these things and that the Lord will continue to show me more of who He is and that I will listen! I love you guys and I am so thankful to have you in my life, praying for me and supporting me!
