Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11160. Dark night of the soul is a phrase that originated with the sixteenth century Spanish mystic John of the Cross, and it has since entered common Christian vocabulary to describe something rather specific, a prolonged, often severe experience of God’s apparent absence, deeper and longer than ordinary spiritual dryness, sometimes accompanied by real…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11159. Spiritual dryness is that unsettling season when prayer feels like talking into an empty room, when Scripture that used to move you now reads flat on the page, and when you cannot quite locate the joy that used to come naturally with worship. If you are in it right now, I want to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4083. Spiritual dryness is one of the most disorienting experiences a Christian can go through, the sense that yesterday’s warmth in prayer has gone cold overnight and nothing you do brings it back. The instinct to read that dryness as proof you have grieved the Holy Spirit is understandable, and sometimes it is exactly…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4184. Most believers, if they walk with God long enough, come to know what I call the dry places, and the ministry of the Spirit in wilderness seasons is one of the least understood and most needed truths in the Christian life. By a wilderness season I mean those stretches when God feels distant,…