Christians are freed from sin and made righteous, holy and pure through the blood of Jesus. But the Bible also says that we sometimes get tempted (1 Cor 10:13) and go through difficult or apparently dry times. Even Paul said that we would suffer with Christ (Rom 8:17, 2 Cor 1:6, Phil 1:29, 2 Tim 2:12, Heb 13:3) and Peter says this too in 1 Pet 3:14 & 16. Jesus is obviously still with us and in us, but it can still feel like a dry time sometimes. Thankfully, as Paul says in 1 Cor 10:13, There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Clearly stemming from their views on perfection, some people have said that they don’t believe in going through dry seasons or deserts any more; you are to be happy all the time. Some have heard this teaching and when they end up going through such a dry season they start to doubt their faith, which is the logical conclusion of this teaching. But in the end, the dry seasons make us stronger and build character in us. James 1:3 puts this very well: Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.