SCRIPTURES:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord.
DEVOTIONAL:
There’s a kind of “strength” that is really just numbness. We keep moving
so we don’t have to feel. But Nehemiah sat down. That’s not weakness - that’s honesty. Psalm 139 is dangerous if you mean it. “Search me.” Not surface stuff - the anxious thoughts, the hidden motives, the quiet compromises. Here’s what I’ve learned: spiritual barrenness rarely happens overnight. It happens slowly - one ignored conviction at a time. One delayed apology at a time. One private habit you keep feeding while your public worship stays loud. Today, don’t run. Sit with God. Let Him search you. Not to shame you - to heal you. God doesn’t expose to embarrass; He exposes to restore.
QUESTIONS:
1. Where am I avoiding stillness because I’m afraid of what I’ll hear?
2. What pattern keeps producing dryness in me?
3. What would repentance look like specifically (not vaguely)?
PRAYER:
Father, search me. I give You permission to put Your finger on what’s killing
my joy and dulling my hunger. Lead me in the way everlasting. Amen.
FASTING FOCUS:
Fast noise - 15 minutes with phone off. Let silence become an altar.