PRAYING OUR THIRST

Pastor Hope Flask

March 9, 2025

Main Scripture: Psalm 42

Additional Scriptures: John 1:14

POINTS:

• Spiritual drought is the inability to sense the Living God—you know God with us but don’t experience God with me.

• All Christians will experience spiritual dryness at some point in their walk.

• Our first reaction to spiritual dryness is to look for who is to blame. We will look externally and internally.

• Three casual factors for spiritual dryness are given in Psalm 42: Disruption of community, Disappointment at the events of life, and Deprivation.

• We need corporate gatherings with other believers to understand our identity in Christ, to be corrected, and to stay on fire for God.

• Only 45% of Christians have returned to church since the Pandemic.

• One lie that we believe during suffering is that God doesn’t care.

• The enemy will taunt us with “Where is your God?” and we must respond to his taunts with “God is with me.”

• Human beings are wonderfully complex, with physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual needs.

• The cure for spiritual dryness: Pour out our hearts to God anyway, analyze our hopes, remember the grace of God, and preach the word of God to our hearts.

• “Listen, heart, hope in the Lord, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.”

• Because of Jesus, we can know that God never gives up on us; He is always God with me.