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Living in this pandemic, single and living alone I woke up this morning knowing I needed a word from God to help get my mind straight to battle the feeling and lies that loneliness is trying to tell me. Thank you for this message. Pastor John always gives straight to the point explanation and scripture. I am never alone! Amen.
Hi I wish I could put you in touch with somebody but I don't know anyone in Surrey Canada. I only know somebody in Surrey UK. How are things now though?
I was praying in a completely different room from my phone. that he will save me from this loneliness I feel everyday. This popped up in my RU-vid feed. Exactly what I was praying for. The lord always assured me I’m not alone even if it feels as if I am. I trust in you, my God.
I completely understand your feelings. I have suffered many losses over the past three years (not all by death) and I am trying hard to get right with the Lord, but it seems overwhelming.
Wow such a timely message for me. I struggle at times God is always with me when I see myself act differently. I feel alone and like maybe God has given up on me sometimes. This seems to assure me at the moment. Thanks pastor
Stephen Blackwell i totally understand . Guess these moments are seek and you shall find. I too am seeking a beautiful gracious relationship with god. Just keep talking to him praying and listen.
My husband and I are Christian yet I experience such great loneliness. I really struggle with looking to a spiritual future when I'm in such pain here.
What about people who have been forced to be alone? And these people are isolated and made to be alone and cannot be with the body of Christ to pray for them and lift them up? People need the body of Christ to be able to gather to gather in one mind and one accord. How do these people forced to be alone get the help they need?
Deborah Wright, are you disabled? I ask, because I have trouble imagining exactly how you might be "forced," as you say, to be alone otherwise, also, because I myself am disabled. If you are disabled, please do what I did: contact a good church ( PCA, ACNA, LCMS, OPC, possibly a "Reformed" or "Bible" church ), explain your situation, and ask to be visited. That's what I did, and I was blessed with an excellent church. I understand that there are areas of the country where the Body of Christ is tiny, but you should be able to find some fellowship. I cannot drive, must be given rides, and do not have that much in common with many of the other members of my church, chronologically, economically, or maritally. ( Most of the members are families or young married people, and I am single. ) But it's a fine and generous church, with two great pastors, excellent elders, and most important, other members of the Body of Christ. My disability has all but guaranteed that I will be alone for life, unmarried, no children, few friends, but Christ said He will never leave us, never forsake us, and I think we should take Him at his word. May God bless you with an answer to your aloneness.
That sounds like a poor excuse of an unbeliever or an unfinished thought of an almost-believer. There is no such thing as "being alone" once you believe in God. I, for example, live abroad among unfriendly foreigners, am unmarried, no kids, and have a single friend - only one person that I can talk to freely and openly. I did indeed have tears in my eyes on numerous occasions because of my shear loneliness. However, that was only before I found Jesus. After I found Him and after I truly believed in God, after I finally got to and read the Bible, after I started to understand this Word of God, it hit me like a truck - *I am not alone!* And I never was. I only ignored Him for all those years. And yes I do think it is just ignorance or lack of basic knowledge of the Bible at least, when one says "I am separated from people (or church) and so alone and therefore I cannot grow my faith and pray etc oh, poor me!" Come on, even on deserted island a believer is not alone and can grow, you don't need other people for that! You only need God. God can help you, not other people.
never being alone and loneliness are two different things. Jesus may be present, but that in and of itself does not necessarily address the issue at all. one is an intellectual premise while the other an emotional state that God may or may not relieve. curious that the NT doesn't specifically address the subject. good luck
ok. how does the promised companionship of the holy spirit solves nowadays issues?? All the listed problems were sitll not removed or easily overcomed. Pasto John just said, He will not leave you alone. Yeah, great, one is not alone but the issue was not only feeling alone or not helped, it was an issue of a broken marriage or something. How does this companionship help at all?
Puchiko Nyu Pardon me. I don't know you're situation but Knowing Jesus is with you means he's with you in all of his perfect love and wisdom. If he determines a time of pain for you (like everyone) it's undoubtedly for your final good and not meaningless. Also our experience of God later will be proportioned somehow to our suffering in faith now, 2 Cor. 4.17, a verse to give endurance even joy in suffering if you dare to believe it.
Puchiko Nyu I hope this would encourage you. In my case Holy Spirit's companionship helps because it enables me to act in obedience despite the circumstances.. Knowing that God knows sometimes becomes the only and sufficient comfort to keep going on in faith admist not yet resolved issues in life.
Wynn Morris ok. pain has a purpose and Is not meaningless. Knowing that doesn't help solve the critical situation one is or make it feel better. How can i get the certainty of future better times or certainty to endure the present one? where? even after praying I don't have any certainty of anything.🤷🏻♀️
Puchiko Nyu "I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope." (Ps 130:5) Although it's not easy, this is what I choose to do with the help of the indwelling Holy Spirit. I hope you could experience God's comfort as you wait & put your hope in God's unfailing love.
You are not in the flesh, you’re in the spirit. If the spirit of God dwells in you, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him but if Christ is in you, you’re alive. Spirit of God, Spirit of Christ, Christ, interchangeable. Which is why he says here in verse 16, we’re gonna send a helper, I am not gonna leave you as orphans, I am gonna send a helper, you don’t have to wait untill the Second coming to have the Father and to have the Son. I am gonna send a helper and then he says in verse 18, I am not gonna leave you as orphans, I am coming to you. Which is why at the end of Matthew’s Gospel it says, go make disciples, baptize them, teach them to serve all that I have commanded you and finish it. I will be with you to the end. Yes, I just went up in the clouds, that’s right, I did, and I did not leave you. There are no orphans in his family. There are no abandoned children in his family. You’re not alone, ever.
Fruitful One Are you a Perfect person? Is that All you heard out of The Message? Was there not Love Preached? Are you showing back Love to our Brother who has Dedicated many Years to Preaching our Fathers Word...Why do you correct when you have not corrected yourself...My questions are all rhetorical...God bless you with Love In Jesus Name...
Lit WithTruth - I am far from perfect, I seek truth. The question was about "easter Sunday " why are you offended? It wasn't a correction it was a question, I loved the message but I don't understand Easter . If you can explain Easter explain, and stop being so offended, that's not love. Gods blessings to you also.
Your View of Easter You Know is Correct...im having trouble believing that u don't think he Also knows what the Christian meaning is of that Day...Lets just Stop there if i offended u i apologize..
Lit WithTruth - No problem, Ishtar AKA " Easter" is the Pagan Goddess, The Resurrection was not on Easter Sunday! Easter is not a Christian name, but the title of the idolatrous "queen of heaven." What is the meaning of the name "Easter"? You have been led to suppose the word means "resurrection of Christ." For 1600 years the Western world has been taught that Christ rose from the dead on Sunday morning. But that is merely one of the fables the Apostle Paul warned readers of the New Testament to expect. The resurrection did not occur on Sunday! None of us are perfect and will never be till death.....
With all do respect i know what Easter is and i knew by your Question that you also Knew As i felt u corrected because of that...I said in my answer the chrstian belief of that day... im sorry that i did not read what u put i have repented from learning the ways of pagans and all occult..The bible teaches not to learn the ways of satan and im sure its forbidden to teach it...
Gods word doesn’t need these dramatic outburst his word is sufficient I was trying to listen to this guy and his movements and actions took away from the word of God and he actually added to The word of God things that were not there
