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I climbed into bed minutes after I got home. I picked up my phone
to set an alarm and saw a notification: a live-streaming Charis Bible Study episode
was about to come on. Hmmm, I could listen to it as I drifted off to sleep….
Suddenly, the most powerful moments of my week captivated my
attention. The teacher was speaking right to my heart, and to the hearts of so
many people I know who are going through something tough. I took notes, and I
want to share a few of them here with you. *I’m sharing what I heard, not
necessarily the exact words he spoke.
The teacher, Daniel Amstutz, taught: What to Do in a Dry
Place (October 11, 2022) I’m including the link to the broadcast here in case
you’d like to watch the teaching firsthand.
Right out of the gate, he makes the most profound statement of
the evening. It’s blaringly obvious, but I’d missed it! He said, “When you’re
going through a dry place, YOU are never the dry place. When you have the
Spirit of God living on the inside of you, you are the place of the presence of
God.”
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The scriptures he shared drew us in to one of his closing remarks, “You sound like a place of refreshing!”
What a change of perspective! I am not the dry place I’m
going through! I am the watering hole itself because I am filled with living water,
and I can draw from the well of salvation any time I want to!
He shared John 4:14 “…whoever drinks of the water that I
shall give him shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will
become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (NKJV)
We are filled to overflowing with the presence of God!
Hallelujah!
We can water the dry places we’re going through with Living
Water! It can become a well-watered garden.
One of the most beautiful things he shared with us in his
teaching was what God spoke to him when he was going through a dry place. God
told him, “Daniel, if you give me your dry place, I’ll turn it into a holy
place.”
By this time, I felt like a child in a candy store, in a frenzy
to take in everything I saw.
Revelation! Yes, a veil was most definitely lifted from my
eyes that night.
When your senses are on overload, do you ever feel like
screaming at the top of your lungs, “Enough! I can’t take anymore.” That’s how
I felt that night. I was completely saturated with God’s presence. His loved
felt like it was oozing out of my pores.
If you know Jesus, my friend, you are not a dry place. You
are the place of refreshing. You are the well in the desert!
Tonight, Bible teacher Greg Mohr told us he wanted to share
something encouraging from scripture. He said, “It came to pass…. It didn’t
come to stay.”
Whatever dry place you may be navigating right now, it came
to pass – it didn’t come to stay.
