Spiritual Emptiness

What exactly is spiritual emptiness? Simply put it is a condition where you feel completely separated from the Lord in every aspect of the word separated. It is when a person is attempting to live their lives in their own way, doing their own thing, and living by their own standards. It is when someone tries to fulfill a void that only God can fill with possessions, praises, pleasures, and especially sin.

This pertains to both believers and non-believers because spiritual emptiness does not discriminate! Some of the characteristics of a person that is spiritually empty are: a life with no production of the fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), when you feel empty even when everything on the outside is seemingly perfect, and you are completely separated from God particularly because of living in sin.

The reason why it is vital that you don’t experience spiritual emptiness especially as a believer of Jesus Christ is because demons love to dwell in dry, dark places. One passage of Scripture that discloses to us how to replenish yourself if you are feeling like you’re lacking spiritually is found in John 6:35.

Jesus states, “And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” The Lord is revealing to us a very powerful truth and that is when we feel like we are spiritually empty we can get into the Word of God, pray, and spend time with Jesus. He is the Word of God made flesh, John 1:14. When we get into the Scriptures, they will replenish your spirit man filling you spiritually.

This series I am going to take a deep dive into the dangers of remaining spiritually empty especially after receiving deliverance from demonic oppression. The devil doesn’t like to give up easily and so what he will do after the Lord has delivered you is come back at a more opportune time just like he did with Jesus Himself, Luke 4:13. If he tried it with the Lord what makes us think that we are immune to those kind of attacks.

Getting set free from things that are keeping you bound ex: addiction, alcoholism, depression, anxiety, is the easier part; it is staying free that requires a lot of work. You have to be filled with the Holy Spirit, getting in the Word of God, and making sure that your mind is completely renewed.

Your mission should be leaving no “place” for the devil to come back in and wreak havoc in your life! Let’s take a look at the verses of Scripture out of the book of Matthew that I am going to do a deeper dive into so that we can understand why we need to fill our temple “house” with nothing but the things pertaining to the Lord.