Teachback Tuesday-Recovering from Spiritual Dryness

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Welcome to Teachback Tuesday, where you'll hear the most popular episodes from the previous season. Are you feeling spent? Bone weary and bone dry? The condition of spiritual dryness can happen for a variety of reasons, but most of those reasons are tied to events that have gone on for too long, or changes that we don't like. Sometimes the issues of life are like bad garments ordered on Amazon. You want to return them to the sender! We can't send chapters of our life story back to God for rewrites, but we can trust Him to help us through our seasons of spiritual dryness. When we're dry, we're also thirsty. This episode, Recovering from Spiritual Dryness covers three indicators of thirst, along with suggestions for recovering. God can "pour water" on those who are thirsty. It's one of His many specialties. THIS is the DONATION LOCATION! Click HERE! Books & Bibles in the Shop at Keep the Heart "Be Like Jesus is Better Than You Do You" t-shirt Sister Friends: Supporting One Another In Grace and Godliness Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram Like Keep the Heart on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season.
0:05.8	This week's episode, recovering from spiritual dryness, was recorded in September of 2021,
0:12.7	back when we were still trying to find our footing again in the midst of an ongoing pandemic.
0:18.0	For some of us, adding the pressures of COVID to a life that already had
0:22.9	plenty of issues increased the risk of spiritual dryness. If you've been feeling spent,
0:29.0	this episode is for you. Let's listen again. Are you one of many people who didn't mind when
0:35.0	church was limited to live stream for a season?
0:38.4	Maybe you would only admit this to close friends or family members, but there were many who
0:43.2	were saying under their breath, I really don't mind this live streaming. And maybe they
0:48.2	weren't even saying it under their breath. There were lots of reasons. Some were saying it's
0:52.5	less stressful. There's less prep. You don't have to load all the kids in the car if you have to do that.
0:58.3	But regardless, there were quite a few people who got used to live stream as a way of going to church.
1:04.1	And when churches went exclusively live stream during the COVID pandemic, it was somewhat novel at first to be able to go to church electronically.
1:12.9	It had been there all along, in some cases, it had been there for years in some ministries.
1:17.9	But after decades of going to church in person, suddenly we were sitting in our pajamas with
1:23.4	pancakes and bacon and coffee in our Bibles. Okay, maybe some of you only had coffee,
1:29.0	but still, it was something we weren't used to doing. Something happened during that time
1:34.7	of the nation shutting down. It created the perfect environment for spiritual dryness. Not
1:41.0	everyone has had this experience, but if you found yourself embracing the live stream over the in-person service so much that you didn't want to return, there may actually be more going on than just the side effects of a pandemic.
1:55.7	And it's not just about church either.
2:04.4	Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.
2:09.4	Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.
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