Here are four powerful ways to come up out of the deepest valley
I’m sure you have walked through some deep valleys. We all have, and you may be in the middle of one right now.
A valley is a low place, a depression in the ground, and it can often be found after a mountain top.
The main thing is that you “pass through it.”
“Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a spring…they go from strength to strength” (Ps. 84: 6)
How do you make your way up out of your valley?
God is with you in your valley.
David walked through a valley. It must have been a tough one.
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…You are WITH ME” (Ps. 23: 4)
We tend to think that God has left us in our valleys. He has not.
His Spirit is inside of you. His angels are around you.
Take confidence that God is right there with you.
2. God is leading you in your valley.
We feel lost in a valley.
We don’t know how we got there or how to get out.
“Like livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest.” (Isa. 63:14)
Cattle go into the valley to drink water and rest.
Sometimes, God leads us into a valley to give us rest. He knows we’ve been tired, anxious, or confused. We need a breather, a break where we rest in Him.
Pause and let the Holy Spirit’s rest come upon you in the middle of your valley.
3. Strengthen your relationships in a valley.
We got through a valley, and we started pulling away from our relationships.
We don’t want to be around people. We want to be isolated.
Do the opposite. Focus on your building your relationships with family, friends, and co-workers.
Ezekiel saw a valley. It was full of bones. In the valley, God brought the bones together into a body: “And the bones came together, bone to its bone” (Eze. 37: 7).
Valleys are places of re-connecting.
4. A “valley” can become a “victory.”
We think of valleys as places of defeat.
Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, turned his valley into a blessing.
His enemies were located in a valley in the wilderness. They had massive firepower.
The Lord told them to praise Him instead of fighting. When Jehoshaphat’s army arrived in the valley, they were all lying dead at the hand of the Lord.
“Therefore, the name of that place has been called the Valley of Blessing until this day” (2 Chron. 20: 26)
God turned his “valley” into a “victory” through the power of praise.
It seems that’s what you and I need to do: “praise our way out of the valley into the victory.”
Walking through a valley? Remember these four things:
Keep your hand in God’s hands.
Let the Holy Spirit lead you into a season of rest.
Restore and reconnect with your close relationships.
Give God glory until the valley becomes a victory.
