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What do you do when you feel away from God?
5 Things to do When You Feel Far From God
- JOURNAL YOUR PRAYERS. The first thing that you should do is pray.
- TAKE TIME TO REFLECT. As I mentioned earlier, usually there is something that can be making us feel far from God.
- FILL YOUR MIND WITH HIS WORD.
- CREATE QUIET TIME.
- LIVE IN HIS LIGHT.
What does it mean to wander away from God?
When we trust our own feelings instead of God’s promises, we wander away from His best. Proud and haughty, we dismiss God’s power and place our own selfish hearts back onto the throne of control.
What’s taking your focus away from God?
Many times in our lives we go through so many things that take our attention and focus away from God (see 1 Timothy 6:10). We’re busy with work or our studies, our families, our health, even our time to unwind. I’m pretty sure you can relate to this.
Why do I feel cut off from God?
Perhaps your experience was colored by clinical depression, as mine was. Or perhaps there were other reasons for your separation anxiety with God. Let’s take a look at a few other reasons we feel cut off from God. There are times in our lives when God withdraws His presence because He wants us to pay attention to the destructive path we are on.
Does God Ever Leave Us Alone?
(see Hebrews 13:5) “I never left you…” Friends, while it’s true that we might have drifted away from God with all our activities, our worries, and our distractions, it is also true that God has never left us alone to abandon us and forsake us. Some of us might think and feel like God deserted us, but He didn’t.
What to do when you are drifting away from God?
1 Reflect Spend some time in quiet reflection. Ask God to show you where and how the drift began. Drifts are prompted by something. 2 Repent Our God is loving, gracious and merciful. He says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us 3 Release