Spiritual dryness is satan's open door into the believers life. Jesus said in Matthew 12:43-45, “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places…” Satan does not go to hot places he goes only to dry places. The Bible says, “…He walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none.” May he never find vacancy in your life. “Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty…” So, spiritual dryness comprises of emptiness and idleness but it doesn't stop there. “… when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.” The word ‘garnished' means to put in order; to be poised, looking religious, but empty.
That is the way many believers are, they clean the outside but pay no attention to the inside. Jesus said, they are like whitewashed tombs which look beautiful on the outside while the inside is full of dead men's bones and all manner of uncleanness (Matt. 23:27). They don't offend anybody but they are dry. When satan finds such a believer, “Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first... ”
Spiritual dryness is satan's environment. Until he finds a dry place he cannot survive. This is why we must fight and avoid spiritual dryness.
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