Has Your Sap Dried Up?
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“The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly and are filled with sap” (Psalm 104:16, AMP).
During a very dark time in my life, this is what the Lord said to me:
During the long winter months, when nature appears to have lost all its beauty, life still flows deep within its darkest recesses. The trees appear naked and dead without their leaves and blooms. The ground seems hard and bare without the beauty of flowers and grass. But, in reality, life is ever flowing, ever-present.
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It flows in the sap that is deep within the trees. It stirs within the seeds of flowers yet to bloom. Both are quietly at work, waiting for their appointed time to be awakened and spring to life.
Sometimes My people also must endure their long winter months of travail when their fruit seems to have withered and their branches seem bare. But deep within their roots, My Spirit moves with eternal life.
All may seem dark, lost, and devoid of life and beauty, but, in such a life lived with Me, My work still goes on.
Sometimes it must be that My precious ones must endure the darkness in order to see the Light. Then when My Light shines on them, they come to life and begin, once again, to blossom and bear fruit.
Our lives are one – yours and Mine. Therefore, all that is of My nature must pass into yours, if so be that your roots have grown deep within My Son. So, take courage.
Allow My Life to flow through you, especially in the darkest of times, and then all will be yours – love, joy, peace, comfort, hope, strength, power, trust, healing, patience, humility, wisdom, and victory. I watch over you to care for and bless you.
If you are in a dark place today, take heart, take refuge. God loves you more than you can see and more than you can understand
Questions: If you are struggling in a dark place, tell us about it. How can we help you? Why does God allow us to experience these dry times of our life?
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Oh, dear precious ladies! I had no idea these comments were here. I didn’t get a notification of them. Please forgive me. I am so sorry, Ann, for all you are dealing with. May the Lord bless you with comfort and peace. Praying for you.
Thank you all for commenting. You bless my heart! May the Lord bless you in return!
Dear Ann, I am sending your site to a friend that has been going through a deep depression. I know how much she is in need of prayer, as we all are. The devil is very busy in the world and in each of our little corners of it. I know that recently he has been chasing me but with the prayers of the saints I’m staying ahead of him:)
Dear Ann,
Recently the devil has been tossing things my way lonliness and all. But i proclaim in the name of Jesus he will not stand. I pray for you and your hausband that the devil will flee and that you will indeed overcome. That His grace will abide with you. Maybe try an intense course of prayer and fasting, it breaks chains in the spiritual relm. Be encouraged for though you might feel…you are truly never alone. I will add you to my prayer list to pray for you family…
Ann, I am so sorry for you and for your husband.I cannot imagine the worry that you must struggle with. I knew someone who like your husband suffered many years with PTSD and drug addiction. The answer for her was to be hospitalized for many months. I shall pray that the Lord will be with you both and give you strength and peace. Through Him all things are possible, both getting through the darkest times and the most joyful ones.
My husband has been struggling for five years with deep depression and PTSD. He has made attemps at endig his life and self medicating with alcohol to get away from the flash backs of his brothers suicide. He’s been in therapy,meds, the hospital. We are strong Christians and surround ourselves with great people from our church. But, at there are times I don’t feel like I can go through the constant worry that I will come home to a dead husband or one that is drunk, or jsut so depressed he can’t take care of himself. I pray for strength and the way to cope. But I feel like I get sucked into his life.