If you find yourself in a valley of sorts, and are reaching the end of your strength… If you find yourself at the end of your tether, weary and worn out, you’ve tried everything you know and still things are not changing for the better… If you feel like you are in relentless warfare , one battle after another without respite… If you feel like the heavens are brass and all around you is wilderness and desert… If you find yourself in a dungeon of sorts… a prison… and you can’t seem to get out… If you feel like it’s dark, so dark right now and you are wondering if God is seeing you, cognisant of you, cares about what you are going through, or even is powerful enough to change your circumstances, then this message is for you. In life there are seasons where we are led right into the alley of Achor,… the valley of troubling. There are seasons where the Holy Spirit leads us into the wilderness, the desert. And in the desert, there isn’t much of anything happening except the heat and cold. There are times when God allows difficulties, and there are times when maybe they aren’t his intention, but they happen because we live in a fallen world and He is big enough to use them for our good and his glory and help us through them. But the reality is, there are times when we have done everything that we know to do, and the situation does not change. What do we do then? What do we do when we have utilised every form of spiritual warfare we know to use, and nothing has changed? What do we do when the situation is desperate with no end in sight? Where do we go when we have run to God for help and it seems like no help is in sight? Who do we turn to when we have turned to God and we still wait some change or breakthrough? Who do we trust in when trust in God hasn’t resulted in what we thought it would? How does God require us to proceed? What do we do when it seems like all else has failed?
