Why do We Sometimes Not Feel God

Have you ever sometimes felt like you don’t feel God’s presence anymore? As if you just felt so far & distanced from Him? .. Well I’m sure we’ve all came to some point in our life where we’re going through so much & just happen to think God isn’t there or isn’t listening to our prayers & cries out to Him. We end up feeling so dry & empty inside as if our fire or passion for Him went out & it can be the worst feeling in the world.. But the truth is that He’s ALWAYS with us.. the Word says He’ll never LEAVE us or FORSAKE us. Oftentimes when us people go through stuff, we’ll question God & ask “where are you Lord?” or “why is this happening?”. But after really meditating & trying to figure out why this sometimes randomly happens, I’ve came to the conclusion that it’s either 1 or 2 things. Either 1, we’re suffering the consequences for our sin. Or 2, God is putting us through a TEST. See, not all the time should we think that God left us because really it’s us who left God in the mist of our troubles! Most of the time when we go through certain things we tend to lose sight of God! But I’m going to explain from experience why sometimes we don’t feel God in either or situation we’re in, whether if it’s a test or because we’re suffering.

• PROBLEM #1:

One of the reasons we may not sometimes feel God is because the Holy Spirit doesn’t dwell in an unclean temple! We don’t realize that the things we do unknowingly that displeases God ends up filtering our spirit with things that are unhealthy for us! As long as we have that unhealthy junk within us then we become sick & weary, just as it is in the natural when we eat unhealthy food, the result of that is food poisoning.. same thing spiritually! When we feed our spirit unhealthy stuff, then our spirit man becomes poisoned.. we get weary. Whatever you feed yourself & allow to filter in your mind & body, will dwell in you! So the question is what do you allow to dwell in you? Is it HOLINESS or WICKEDNESS? The word says BE HOLY FOR I AM HOLY. Some of the things that we feed ourselves that are unhealthy for us is the things we watch & hear.. When you watch or listen to anything that contradicts the word of God & then become comfortable doing so, you are now filtering unclean things into your temple! Many times when our temple is unclean, it blocks us from hearing the voice of God! When we pray, we feel like our words are just hitting the air.. When we read, we can’t remember what we read afterwards.. our flesh just totally acts up & it’s because those unclean stuff in your temple starts to distract you! We should only want to dwell in us what God wants to dwell in us & not sneak or allow things that aren’t supposed to be dwelling there!

• SOLUTION #1:

.. So how can we fix that problem? Glad you asked lol.. First step is confessing your sins & daily repentance, it’s important! When you do that, your cleansing your temple from any unrighteousness that’s dwelling inside of you! To stay clean you must RENEW your mind! To renew means to restore, so eliminate  any & everything that contradicts the word of God. Such as, cut off anything that is distracting you & hindering you from getting closer to God.. Any music, tv shows, friends that carry any type of bad influence on you, etc. Renewing & restoring your mind requires taking up your cross & dying to yourself. Now that you can have clear minds, you can read & accept instruction from God. Also incorporate prayer everyday to receive understanding. If you can do that then you’ll be legit. Usually it would probably take up to a week or so to really forget those irrelevant things & get them out of your system.

• PROBLEM # 2:

Oftentimes when we’re going through the fire or storms in our lives, we’re doing everything we can to please God but feel like nothing is good enough because no matter how hard we try, we just don’t feel His presence still & nothing is going right. But really like I’ve said before God will never leave us or forsake us.. So sometimes when we are broken & need God but feel He isn’t there.. really it’s just Him testing us! He’s testing us to see if no matter what we go through, if we’ll still serve Him with the right motives! Really seeing if we’ll not just only praise Him through the good, but through the bad as well!

• SOLUTION #2:

To fix that, we have to fight off that feeling! When we are weak, we are strong. So even if sometimes we fight til we don’t feel like fighting no more.. keep fighting! Don’t give up, because once you do then you’ll give in & allow whatever is going on in your life to take over your mind. When we’re in spiritual warfare & we can’t take no more & are about to break down & give up, then our BREAKTHROUGH right around the corner! Trust God by being patient & having endurance..  Speak scripture over your life with authority & faith! Remind yourself daily that GREATER IS HE THAT IS WITHIN ME THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD! I CAN DO ALL THINGS IN CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME! NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER! I’M MORE THAN A CONQUEROR! GOD WON’T GIVE ME MORE THAN I CAN BARE! Life & death is in the power of the tongue, so speak LIFE over you & let your faith move you so even if your at war, you’ll still have a peace of mind