Trusting God in a Spiritual Dry Season

This post is all about trusting God in a spiritual dry season.

A spiritual dry season is easily recognizable. Nothing is working as it should and it feels like God is not paying attention to your prayers.

Spiritual dry seasons can occur in a many areas like our prayer life, marriage, relationships, career or finances. So, here are some tips on trusting God in this dry season.

WAYS TO TRUST GOD IN A SPIRITUAL DRY SEASON:

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1. Lean Not On Your Own Understanding

In a season like this, we can’t just rely on ourselves. Our own understanding can lead us down pathways filled with rejection and extra work without results.

You have to resist the urge to lean on your own strength, your intelligence or late night brainstorming strategies.

Our confidence should be in God and not ourselves.

Simply pause and release it all to God:

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV

Don’t step out of alignment and extend your time in this dry season. Stay aligned with Him and know that He is working everything together for your good.

Know that He will direct your steps, set the right things in place and guide you through this!

Seek Him first, stay in the Word and listen for His voice in everything you do.

2. Draw closer to God.

To the natural eye, a spiritual dry season is so uncomfortable and frustrating at times. But, I believe it is truly a spiritual opportunity in disguise.

When things seem to have dried up, it’s hard to see the bright side or greater purpose in this season. It looks like things are not working or there’s no one in your circle that truly understands.

But, don’t give up or lose hope in this hour.

Most importantly, don’t waste this opportunity to draw closer to God. Have you put other things before God like your job, money or a lover? Just know that God wants your whole heart!

We’re so used to distractions that it is hard to understand the beauty of quietness. God may be using this dry season to reveal things like:

A transition into a new place, city, job or calling
Unforgiveness or bitterness within you
A situation or environment that you need to exit
Your true purpose or passion that you’ve set aside

Also, don’t waste this season with murmuring and complaining.

Get quiet. Keep your ears, eyes and heart open for the lesson from Him.

In one of my dry seasons, journaling really helped me to draw closer to God especially when it seemed He was quiet.

We have to continue to seek His face and continue to learn about His nature.

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3. Recognize The Season that You’re In

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” – Genesis 8:22

It’s really easy to recognize the harvest season because everything flows. Sometimes, we only remember how to harvest and we can’t recognize when it’s time to sow.

Are you in a season of sowing? Or, Is it the season for a harvest?

“They sow fields and plant vineyards and get a fruitful yield.” – Psalm 107:37

In a spiritual dry season, what is it that God wants you to bring forth? What does He want you to produce?

Take time to discern what you’re being called to do.

It may be something simple or a dream that you’ve been deferring. Or, a calling to sow your time and creative energy using the talent that He gave you.

It’s easy to fall into the trap and forget that God alone is our source! He has already gifted us with our talents and strength.

But, we get lost in the hustle of earning a living, getting external validation from our job titles, or approval from our social circle.

In the dry season, He may be sitting you down to take time to reveal or acknowledge those talents.

Trust that God is doing a good thing within you right now. This may be an opportunity to sow your time, talent, the Word, etc in this season and produce a harvest.

“And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.” – Mark 4:26-29 KJV

4. Take it One Day at a Time

In Matthew 6:25-34, we learn that we simply should not worry about anything.

God takes care of everything from flowers to birds with the utmost detail so He will take care of us as well! He loves us!

I also love how the Bible tells us to let tomorrow take care of itself because today is enough!

Take life one day at a time and trust that God is with you even in the silence. To strengthen yourself each day, you can:

Show gratitude or write a gratitude list
Start your day off with Prayer
Set aside some quiet time to talk and listen to God

5. Keep Your Faith in God

Faith in God is the most important thing required of us during a dry season. The enemy’s objective is to rob us of our faith and have us look to other sources for escape.

Remember that Jesus was even tempted in the wilderness!

In Matthew 4:1-11, the enemy tried to rob Jesus when He was hungry, thirsty and vulnerable. But Jesus resisted!

He refused to operate in His own strength and act outside of God’s authority. That’s a word for all of us. Hallelujah!

“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” – James 4:7 NIV

So, keep your faith in God. Continue to walk by faith and not by sight in this season.

It’s tough to see it now, but this season is going to reveal something. There is always a purpose for everything in the Kingdom of God.

Dry seasons can be a tough place to navigate. But, God will guide you through it as you seek Him and watch for His guidance.