Feel like you’ve ever hit the wall?

How To Hit The Wall Well

Big Idea: The walls that God allows have worth

X2: God is up to something good even in our darkest seasons

#1: Intense Spiritual Rough-Patches happen

• John the Baptist: obedient, knew Jesus/story, priest/Levite, living righteously
• Imprisoned, waiting… “Are you the one we are to expect, or are we to wait for another?”
• Dark Night of the Soul/doubting/”Wall”
• Ex. Like Shrub Cover -> at some point, cover removed -> exposed to full elements

#2: The Walls are Real -> facing them is reality

• What may prompt walls? “divorce, job loss, death of friend/family, cancer diagnosis, disillusioning church experience, betrayal, shattered dream, wayward child, car accident, infertility, deep desire to marry going unfulfilled, dryness in relationship with God, etc.”
• What happens? “Good feelings of God evaporate. We feel the door to heaven has been shut as we pray.  Darkness, helplessness, weariness, sense of failure/defeat, emptiness, dryness descends upon us… We can’t see what God is doing and we see little visible fruit in our lives.”

#3: You can face your wall well

• Acknowledge -> normal part of the journey
• Be still, be sensitive
• Be Sensitive when others are experiencing this: tame the tongue, don’t shoot the wounded