Trust God Even When You Have No Feelings - Paul Washer

This excerpt was taken from the full sermon, "My Soul’s Needs and Biblical Keys For Growth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBAG-7Wjok

Been dealing with this lack of feeling God’s love a lot recently. Yet I still don’t want to ever quit and go back to the ways of the world and how I lived. But this popped up. If that’s not a sign from the Lord, I don’t know what is. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord

Blessed are those, who have not seen, yet still believe.

“And yet, you find yourself believing” Glory to God

This was exactly how I was feeling today, I felt hopeless, unloved, unheard which led me to ask the Lord to reveal Himself to me because I kinda lost the connection. But the Lord is good, WORSHIP is the solution!! I worshiped the Lord when I did not feel His presence and now scrolling here I encountered this 🔥🙌 THE LORD IS GOOOOOOOD

What Paul described I am going through right now. I feel a real spiritual dryness and don’t feel as confident and close to God as I once did, yet I find myself still believing and daily seeking him with out any warm feeling or joy. Thank you brother Paul for your words of encouragement!

I will trust God even when I’m crippled with anxiety for no reason. I will trust you Lord

This is so reassuring for a new Christian whose local church think I'm cursed because I cant "feel" the spirit. Thank you for this.

Who else cried with this short sermon!😢❤

LITERALLY THE SEASON I HAVE BEEN IN! FORCING ME TO TRUST HIS CHARACTER AND NOT WHAT I CAN SEE! SO GRATEFUL FOR IT THOUGH! 😭🙌🏾🙌🏾

" Look at my servant who walks in darkness and has not light but trust in my name " These lines sets my soul ablaze, I'm renewed and I have the will to go on even in my darkness.

The teacher is often most silent when the student is being tested.

After 4 years of running from God, I have been pursuing Him everyday, seeking His face, wanting to see again His face and the glory of Christ that He revealed to me after much prayer and fasting. But 4 years can erase much, but this is so encouraging, for even the feeling of His existence and constant inner fightings with doubts and fears plague me. I grab ahold of His promise that those that seek shall find and He is the rewarded of those that diligently seek after Him. This snippet of the message brought tears to my eyes. All for His glory that He may smile down upon me!

You are not alone. Even when you can't feel Him, He is with you. Those who truly seek Him are given the hardest tests. God has not given up on you, He is pruning you. He is giving you trials to foster strength and resilience. When all is said and done, you will feel and know Him more than ever. Trust the plan, trust in Him, and Don't Give Up.

This is so true. My child was critically ill a couple of years ago. I felt no comfort. None. It was the most desperate time of my life. I have never been that low. And I felt nothing but despair. I remember going into the bathroom of the hospital room and crying. That’s the only prayer I could find - tears. And I constantly thought of what Jesus said, “never will I leave you and never will I forsake you.” I told Jesus I believed him over my feelings. I felt abandoned, but I knew I wasn’t. My feelings were not greater than his truth. That was eye opening. My son is healthy now after 6.5 months of medical treatment. But that was the lowest point of my life. And whatever I felt or didn’t feel, He was with me. My faith grew a lot from what I learned in that time.

I finally found and answer to my darkness and numbness. The Lord hasn’t left me.

This is exactly how I have been feeling lately- no feeling at all. I pray He is still with me, watching over me. I feel alone, without the presence of YHWH in my life.

This happened to me 15 years ago and I had no idea what was happening. The ecstatic love I felt from God turned to complete darkness, emptiness and pain. I did fall into sin at times as a result as I didn't know what was happening and was hurting a lot. However, from learning scripture I have realized that this is a normal experience. And I feel I have been taught to live by faith as the Israelites were in the wilderness. And I am coming out of the wilderness now with my faith tested and strengthened

Going through this right now. I cried tears of joy with the analogy of God boasting in Heaven about His servant that trusts in His name. In that instant, I felt that all the hardships made sense and was grateful for the opportunity to glorify His name.

I am at this point in my life right now...weary from an ongoing battle with depression, anxiety, insomnia for the past year. But I still believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I still believe...holding on by mustard seed faith...I too think of the past...but I never want to go back to the empty days before I was a Christian....not an outward sinful life but a life empty without Christ. I do long to walk closely with the Lord again...like Job said how he used to be before he was severely afflicted.