Spiritual Journey Blog

If you’ve ever felt like: You don't know which way to go Your brain feels foggy You can't feel God's presence This is for you. The issue is that you have too much noise blocking out God's Voice.

Most people don’t struggle to believe God exists. They struggle to notice Him. Not in the big moments—but in the ordinary ones. In the in-between parts of life that feel like nothing is happening at all.

One of the hardest things to untangle in spiritual life is that our feelings don’t always tell us the truth about reality. Feeling distant from God can come from different places. But the cause is not always the absence of God. Often it is the noise around us that drowns out awareness.

There is a quiet struggle that many people of faith never say out loud. We want to feel God. We want to hear Him clearly. We want confirmation that He is near. But most days feel ordinary. No burning bushes. No loud voice from heaven. No unmistakable signs. And so we begin to wonder…“Is God even speaking to me?”

While modern culture associates stillness with quiet meditation, the biblical command in Psalm 46:10 carries a much deeper meaning. In Hebrew, the word for "Be Still" is raphah. In this context, it doesn't just mean to sit in silence; it is an active command to "stop your busyness" or "drop your weapons".

Worldly abundance is often defined as a "very large quantity" of things like time, money, or patience. However, the problem with "more" is that there is never a ceiling; extra time is eventually filled and extra money is spent, causing that sense of abundance to slip away. In juxtaposition, spiritual abundance is about God’s grace being sufficient even in the middle of a mess.

The worldly view of abundance is having more stuff. Webster's dictionary actually defines it as “a very large quantity of something.” The problem with more is that there is never a ceiling for needing more. It happens slowly. Eventually, the extra time is filled, the extra money is allocated or spent, and you find your abundance slipping away. In juxtaposition, a spiritual abundance is all about God’s grace being sufficient in the middle of the mess.