Why You Don't Feel God: Entering the Secret of the Lord (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780985182021)

Many people say they believe in God, yet quietly wonder why they do not feel Him. They pray, worship, read Scripture, and try to do everything right, but the closeness they were promised never seems to arrive. The silence leaves them confused, tired, and often ashamed.

Why You Don't Feel God offers a clear and unsettling answer. The problem is not God's absence, but a lie we have inherited about where faith begins.

Modern spirituality, including much of Christian culture, has trained us to treat feelings as evidence of God's presence. If we feel warmth or inspiration, we assume God is near. If we feel dry or empty, we assume something is wrong. Over time, faith becomes performance, dependence becomes optional, and the self quietly takes God's place as the final authority.

This book dismantles that lie.

Rooted in Psalm 25 and grounded in Scripture, Why You Don't Feel God shows how self-reliance, emotional measurement, and control lead to spiritual exhaustion. It explains why so many believers feel burned out, anxious, and disconnected-and why those feelings are not signs of failure, but signs of misplaced weight. We were never meant to carry ourselves.

This is not a book about learning how to feel God more. It is a book about unlearning the habits that taught us to replace Him. It confronts the self-help gospel, the myth of manifestation, and the pressure to perform spiritually. In their place, it restores an ancient posture: waiting, surrender, and full dependence on God, regardless of how we feel.

Written for tired believers, honest skeptics, and anyone exhausted from trying to save themselves, Why You Don't Feel God offers no hype, no techniques, and no emotional manipulation.

Not a feeling to chase.
A position to return to.

The silence is not abandonment.
It is an invitation.