Places
in the Wilderness
The Dry Places
Finding God in the Wilderness
You have been faithful. You have prayed. You have fasted, studied, and stood. And still — the well is dry. The word has gone quiet. The seasons that used to feel full now feel like desert sand between your fingers.
The temptation in the wilderness is to assume that silence means absence. That the dry ground means you have done something wrong. That the God who was present in the river cannot possibly be present in the drought.
The Dry Places is a faith devotional for every believer who has walked through a spiritual drought and dared to ask what God could possibly be doing there. Drawing from Scripture, testimony, and the hard-won wisdom of seasons that refused to break quickly, this book makes the case that the wilderness is not an absence of God's presence — it is one of His most precise instruments.
What God grows in you when the ground is dry is something water alone could never produce. This is the book for that season.
"The dry places have a name. And the name is not punishment, not delay, not evidence of a distant God. The dry places have a name, and the name is formation. There is a version of you that can only be built without the comfort of a well. Without the reassurance of visible progress. Without the sound of water. I know because I have been there. And I know what I found when I stopped trying to locate the exit and started asking what the wilderness was trying to teach me."
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"He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."Deuteronomy 32:10