The Benefit Of Doubt Part 2 of 2

We assume Doubt is the  of Faith

Faith is not a , it is a

Doubt is often a pathway to a deeper in God’s

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

Psalm 42:1-2 (NIV)

What conditions lead me to spiritual dryness?

…how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. Psalm 42:4,6 (NIV)

• Disruption of my

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” …I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?” Psalm 42:3,9 (NIV)

• Disillusioned by the events in my life

• Deprivation of my

What can help cure my spiritual drought?

• Express your  to God

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. 

Psalm 42:5,11 (NIV)

• Evaluate the of your hopes

My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life. Psalm 42:5,8 (NIV)

• Remember God’s toward me

• Learn how to to my own heart