By Bill Gaultiere © 2009, 2010
What do you do when you’ve been mistreated and God doesn’t seem to answer your prayers? How do you pray when God seems distant and unconcerned about your pain? We all go through these trials. They don’t mean that God is angry with us or that we’re not good Christians. It may be a dark night of the soul.
In dark night trials we tend to feel alone, but we’re not! The Psalmist understands and in Psalm 44 he shows us how to pray in the dark. Many of our Bible heroes went through these times, most notably Jesus in the [...]
Continue reading The Other Side of Deep Darkness
By Bill Gaultiere © 2010
From time to time we all go through trials in which we lose heart and feel overwhelmed with discouragement, worry, or exhaustion. The painful times are “Dark Nights of the Soul” when our prayers seem to go unanswered and God’s comfort cannot be found.
All Christ-followers go through Dark Nights when God seems distant and prayer and other spiritual activities do not yield the experience of God’s blessings as they have in times past. But few people today have been trained in how to deal with these spiritual trials. Inspired by Psalm 77, I wrote [...]
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The Sons of Korah may have written Psalm 42 by these waterfalls that flow into the Jordan River. I can imagine this because I love praying a Psalm in its nature setting!
Two years ago in Maui I watched my son and daughter surf at Puamana Beach. As I did I listened to the waves and meditated on Psalm 42. The waves and words flowed together into my soul. I waited… I breathed them in… I breathed them out…
I realized that God, like the echoing sounds of the waves and the unfolding insights [...]
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By Bill Gaultiere © 2009, 2010
