Date: Saturday, 23rd November, 2024
Text: Isaiah 40:29-31
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
One of the symptoms or signs of spiritual burnout is loss of joy. You would discover that your prayers and service of God that used to be spontaneous before becomes ‘mechanical’. Loss of joy results to lack of enthusiasm. The inner spiritual motivation is gone and you discover that you begin to struggle to fulfill your basic spiritual obligations. Before you know it you will find yourself failing and giving excuses.
Another sign that you are passing through a season of spiritual burnout is that you find yourself getting easily discouraged. Little things get you complaining. Frustration and depression may set in if nothing is done to refuel your spiritual tank.
In Hebrews 13:5, God has promised never to leave you nor forsake you. However, if you always feel disconnected from God and abandoned by him, you are already experiencing a burnout.
Disinterest in the things of God; apathy in spiritual activities like personal and corporate bible study, fasting, prayer, evangelism etc are other signs of burnout.
When you begin to doubt your previously firm spiritual convictions and you become critical in your spirit finding fault in your spiritual leaders; looking for loopholes in the doctrines of the Word Of God; you need to retrace your steps and go back to your first love.
The Holy Scriptures say, “He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might he increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,but those who wait on the lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:29-31
Are you caught in the web of spiritual burnout? It’s not the end of the journey. Just go back to Jesus your source of spiritual strength and wait on him. And as you wait on him he will renew your spiritual strength and restore your joy in Jesus name.
Prayer Nugget: Father, please grant me speedy spiritual recovery and a deeper relationship with you like never before in Jesus name.