faith unfaded

I’ve been going around telling people I was spiritually dead for a couple of months now. Like most people in my life who love me, He allowed me to run my mouth a little before He stopped me.

You weren’t spiritually dead; you were in a spiritual slumber.

Hmmm…I received it immediately but it would be a few more days before I unpacked that fully.

I knew when I went into a spiritual sleep. I know when, where, and why. That revelation did not come quickly or painlessly. Nonetheless, when it did I understood fully that I was so deeply wounded in the very core of my soul that I retreated quickly.

How else do you fight a spiritual battle when you’re walking in the flesh?

Of course, like many people who still think they are walking in the Spirit when they are not, I had no clue I was still trying to do things in my own might. Which should not have been surprising at all since I have no fewer than 5 “notes” in my Bible where the Lord said those exact words to me.

My spiritual sleep turned into spiritual slumber during Covid. My dog dying in 2021 was like being given IV sleep meds when you’re already in the middle of a deep NREM cycle.

What little life I had was channeled into works so that I didn’t feel I’d totally abandoned God. I wasn’t sure He hadn’t totally abandoned me, to be honest. At first, I questioned everything. Every Word, every miracle…then I started forgetting them- every promise, every answered prayer…until I eventually required more and more noise to tune out the deafening silence between me and the Lord.

I almost died, both physically and spiritually.

To be spiritually dead is to be separated from God. When Adam sinned in Genesis 3:6, he ushered in death for all humanity. God’s command to Adam and Eve was that they could not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Where are YOU spiritually? Spiritually alive? Spiritually aware? Spiritually asleep? Spiritually dead? Spend some time with the Lord this week and do a little soul check-up.

For me, it wouldn’t have mattered if I’d gone to a revival every night for the rest of my life. Until I accepted the need for revival in my HEART, nothing was going to change…

TRUE REVIVAL BEGINS NOT IN A TENT BUT INSIDE THE HEART OF MAN!!

Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for the brethren to dwell together in unity.

Imagine if we started building up everyone we encountered. It’s not even that we tear people down anymore. It’s more apathetic than that. We just keep our heads down and noses clean and we don’t let anyone affect us and we don’t bother anyone else. Great mentality, right?

NO! It’s insane and it’s a stupid lie from Satan. Raise your head up. Say hello to the man behind you at the store. Smile at the mom whose five kids are hanging off the WalMart buggy. Stop and twirl with the 7-year-olds at a soccer game if you’re a little off like me. Interact!

Isolation is a tool of the devil. You don’t want to get out and see anyone? You probably need it the most.

Do not fall into a spiritual slumber because you were too busy trying to stay in your lane that you lost sight of the entire road.

Be present! At home, at work, at church, with friends, in your community…

In John 10:10, Jesus says…The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

LIVE AN ABUNDANT LIFE!