Some thoughts on Dry Spells…

Have you ever felt "dry" in ministry? Well, here's some of my thoughts regarding this!

• Do not be afraid of dry times when you don’t feel God or feel really zero passion for ministry.
• The time when you are emerging from a dry spell is actually the “best” time in ministry so if you haven’t gone through that, ministry life is not a complete circle yet.
• Dry spell time is – as you can see, very dry and painful. When your bones and skin is dry, you feel tired, old, and generally, lack of life.
• But this is the only time when you will be able to realize so many new things about God. You need to see God in different perspectives. So God is training you to see Him even when you are in a sad or bad patch. If you can only see God during the good/high times, then your vision of God is also, not complete yet.
• A dry spell is not something you can “will” yourself to come out of. You can’t say I wanna be up there, serving, and doing God’s work all the time. You need to seek God’s time.
• During a dry spell, it a time of dessert-temptations like what Jesus went through. So it’s not the end of your spiritual life (we tend to think that we lost that initial zeal and that’s it for us for ministry…) But, it’s actually just the beginning of the challenge of God’s mission for you. Only after Jesus’ 40 days in the desert, he then began his public ministry for 3 years. Imagine what God wants to do with you? So you need the dessert-experience first before you can launch out
• It is only during a dry spell that you can really tell yourself what you want to do – you know when you take a backseat and look at life and re-organise your priorities.
• And if you emerge from that “season” and are “still” in Ministry and haven’t given up yet, you will realize you have even greater passion and greater insight and wisdom than before.

So.. Dry Spell = Storms = Dessert = Trials & Persecutions = Time of rest & preparation…


Jesus is our Rock of Refuge!