{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Song Students OKC","title":"HELP! - \"How do I continue to walk with God when it feels like He's not with me?\"","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3473,"description":"Psalm 22:1-5\n\nThis psalm begins abruptly, with a disturbing scene: someone who knows and trusts God is forsaken, and cries out to God in agony.\nDavid Guzik\n\n“How do you continue to walk with God when you don’t feel His presence and it feels like He isn’t with you?”\n\nTHE WALL.\n\nWhat is The Wall?\n\nWhat is important here is to note that the trials we encounter each day are not the Wall or “dark night of the soul.” Trials are traffic jams, annoying bosses, delayed airplay departures, car breakdowns, fevers, and barking dogs in the middle of the night.\nPeter Scazzero\n\nJOHN OF THE CROSS PHOTO*\n\ncontinue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.\nPhilippians 2:12b-13\n\nWilderness seasons don’t purify us from sin, Jesus already did that. It’s done. It is finished.\n\n“DARK”\n\nHow do we know we are in “the dark night”? Our good feelings of God’s presence evaporate. We feel the door of heaven has been shut as we pray. Darkness, helplessness, weariness, a sense of failure or defeat, barrenness, emptiness, dryness descends upon us. The Christian disciplines  that have served us up to this time “no longer work.” We can’t see what God is doing and we see little visible fruit in our lives.\nPeter Scazzero\n\n“NIGHT”\n\nweeping may stay for the night,\n    but rejoicing comes in the morning.\nPsalm 30:5\n\n“SOUL\"\n\nMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\n     Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?\n2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,\n     and by night, but I find no rest.\nPsalm 22:1-2\n\nWe're going on a bear hunt\nWe're going on a bear hunt\nI've got my binoculars\nI've got my binoculars\nI'm not scared\nI'm not scared\nOoh, look at that tall, wavy grass\nIt's so tall\nWe can't go over it\nWe can't go under it\nWe're just gonna have to go through it\nSwish, swish, swish, swish\nThe Kiboomers\n\n“DO I TRUST GOD?”\n\n10 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BjiZxrt0a9mZ2dDE8857wRItwuk9xfgMH36A4JE3q70/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI3OTc4LzE2OTMw/NzI5MzktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}