Why Isolation Is a Bad Thing - John Bevere
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2023
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Isolation can also be a season where God separates you from your current lifestyle, so that he can prepare you for a new one. I’ve been through that season and it was a painful one because I always thought I was doing something wrong until God showed me that he was working something in me. Sometimes God isolates people to work in them, but that also was a great point.
Amen 🙏🏾
@arielhurst5258 I respectfully disagree with your interpretation. There are so many emotions that we go through when God begins his works in our lives. Loneliness included.
We die to our old selves. This is painful, physically, mentally and emotionally. Going against everything you know while learning how to Trust, in a God we have not seen or may not know, can feel like you are going crazy.
It really is a matter of the heart. ❤. The Lord always looks at our hearts. The video is stating that the man first isolated his heart then everything else followed.
The Bible is full of Godly people that were isolated. Which simple means to separate physically or socially, to set apart.
@@arielhurst5258 Have a blessed day. May the Lord bless and protect you.
I don't know if you are aware but your comments are passive aggressive and a bit narcissistic. You agree with what a comment says then you disagree followed by a correction of what someone wrote. You then state what you believe is the correct way of doing things. I am sorry but this is not a conversation I care to continue to engage in.
I do wish you the best and pray that the Lord continues to bless and protect you and your family. ❤️
@@arielhurst5258uh
I am going through this exact phase of long season of singleness. The reason the Father would separate us from the crowd and family and friends is to grow up spiritually and get close to the Lord so I can depend and rely on the Lord 💯. This time of solitude can be isolating, and it's the best time the Lord uses to work a good thing in us. There is a lot of healing and study, and Jesus is the new best friend and partner in this time. The difference with this season and isolation is when we give up on the people treating us like crap and wanting to get away from the harshness of others who we feel are working against the lords will for us. It's like playing Jonah. We will experience darkness and drown in isolation instead of facing where we need to be to show them the Lord in places we don't want to go to.
God bless
I’m married to man with a completely shut off heart, it’s been shattering. Lord Jesus, I pray for a miracle, I pray for restoration and healing. I pray for help
Amen
Your faith and continual prayer will save your marriage. A man that looses his life for the safe of Christ gains it. And the one who gains his life loses it! Remember to count the cost of living for Christ but most importantly never forget the treasures waiting for those who endure!
Please consider that God is already at work in him and you need to trust Christ with how he operates.
Forgive him for not knowing and move past it. You doing good works will be enough to take you both to eternity with our heavenly father, it’s mentioned in scriptures. Look up wifely duties in the bible.
It's hard but there can be that point z of just having prayer and working on yourself. Letting God refine you to the point that is needed perhaps to trigger your husband as well. It's happened in my life and still is in many ways.
I've had to be strong spiritually, and when he is intimidated and defensive about himself being refined by the Lord, he might lash out a bit emotionally or shut down. I've learned to have better boundaries and acceptance that he's got his own weaknesses to work out as I have mine. And back to the prayer...etc. ❤
That's the truth. My heart was closed from a very young age. I rejected everthing and everyone. It's a very painful place to be. But by the grace of God, His love and care, my heart it is now open and I am able to recieve and enjoy the love of God towards me and the joy of loving and being love by others. 🙌❤🙌❤🙌👑🙌❤
Something that reslly was impossible before and created a huge mess. I am so greatful to have the Lord in my life and to be able to testify to the reality of His goodness. Amen
How was it possible, how did God free you
@@watisean.anything is possible with God 🤗 surrendering to Gods will is one of the best things you can do
Thank you for sharing. This is incredibly powerful. ❤
I resonate with what you said very much so. Used to think the whole world hated me. Now things are very different. God is so wonderful❤️
Much love to you❤ Thank you for sharing. I've always had a bleeding heart for others, until I got older and experienced some deep despair. I felt my heart re-open with accepting salvation, but the rejection I've had also hurts. I've made excuses to build back up a wall...around my heart.
I just had a loss of a beloved pet of 14 years yesterday. I will miss her but I know I was using her as a crutch to avoid the discomfort of new social situations. This helped me to grow very isolated.
I grew up with my mom replacing every dead cat or dog with another or two....It was unexpected how much grief I have felt but also how convicted I feel that it's not time to get another pet. I have things to get in order. But it's the first time in my life I have no nearby friends, AND no pets, though I also have my husband and my kids. ❤ And the LORD which is all we need. I feel the Lord telling me to use the love I have without fear, only healthy boundaries and temperance...but to share with others, new and old. To stop being so easy on myself with just "my cat's my best friend" lol She was an awesome gift from God, and I'll always have the love and joy from that but I know with her passing is a huge ending punctuation in this chapter. ❤❤❤
There's a season for everything under the Sun. And sometimes isolation is a season.. And sometimes you've been abused so bad that you don't know how to interact with other people without hurting them.
@debbiewilder4738 exactly!! Or sometimes you have been abused so bad that you don't know how to continue to interact with people who keep hurting you (whether they have hurt you emotionally, mentally, or physically). Each hurt is a kick in the face and after a while you can't handle the beat downs anymore. And the only relief is to withdraw yourself completely from them.
Look into the context of what he is saying
Yes but not by our choice as Christians...❤ We are to be refined by Christ in struggles. Sometimes that's isolation...but should not be by our choosing vs acceptance. Recognizing when it's time to start a new and not to shelter ourselves in excuses. This couple in the vid has another good one I saw about God's character that helped reaffirm what the holy spirit has been telling me. ❤
My beloved pet died of 14 years. I am not one to think of pets as people but I didn't notice how much I did rely on my pet as an excuse to find comfort inward ...(In my pet, which is an animal, wonderful creation from God, but it's not a reciprocal relationship like with people, and the pet doesn't comprehend love etc vs belonging and comfort in survival as well).
I felt the conviction not to get a new pet which has never ever been the case in my life. I've always had at least one pet. I felt upset- I didn't realize how much love I poured into caregiving to the cat. I felt the holy spirit telling me I need to do this with other people....to stop fearing the rejection and etc of other people and to give love. To show the love of the holy spirit....none of us deserve this but we get it because Jesus wills it so. And we are to share it when appropriate.
For me that time has come. It's painful and I struggle with it. I didn't have healthy boundaries until I accepted salvation 7 years ago so I'm still learning. But I feel it's right...now.
@@williamvega6190❤YES. The abusers are working with evil forces, of the deciever. To separate us and to be too fearful to reach out, too fearful to connect. It's painful to risk it and can feel intimidating to practice those new boundaries with people but it's necessary for us to grow stronger, and to help others as Jesus wants us to. ❤ I'm working on this and it hurts like heck right now but I feel convicted by the holy Spirit.
I wouldn't isolate myself if everyone wasn't screwing me over and I wouldn't be isolated if I could find some of God's people to share the love with. Not everyone chooses to be isolated it's obligation on my part
I pray that you will meet with others like yourself... who will love and appreciate you for all that you are 💞🙏🏿
@@user-sm6hm8qc4c Thank you so much, i appreciate that more than you know. I would do whatever I had to, to be around people that loved from the heart and soul. I'd move any distance and give up everything I own just to have some real happiness in my life. I got myself sober and absolutely love it but I can't seem to find anyone around where I live that is on the same page with staying sober and praising God for all that He does. I'm so conflicted because I want to spread God's message but no one around here likes it by any means, sadly my dad and I no longer talk even because I believe in God and he doesn't. So I did make my first UA-cam video today trying to get it out to the world, it's not perfect but its not scripted and its straight from the heart and there will be more to come. I will spread God's message somehow someway. I can't wait to kneel at the feet of God and tell Him how much I love Him and How happy I am to be home but for now I have work to do down here, Amen!
I'm a witness ❤we are Set Apart just for a season it's okay 👍🕊️🩵
Were are you living at? Would like to be friends 😊
You say it is everyone else who is the problem, not you.
By this, I can tell that you are your own problem 😅
Sometimes it also happens this way, i ve been a very loving person to all around me, but realised so late that people are so selfish and nobody loved me the way i was giving them importance. So now i want to be isolated, alone and enjoy my own company❤❤❤❤
Yup,EAGLES FLY ALONE.
Same here pal
I appreciate alone time. I was in a church that felt more social club than anything. I left and now spend more time with God than ever. I know he called me to this, at least for a season.
It shouldn't be for your own desires, perhaps you need to. Sometimes God wants us to root out toxic people and do self work like this, more isolated. But it can't last forever. A lot of the self work also has to be done with others. In relation to others.
I am also very loving innately but I also do a lot wrong with unhealthy boundaries.....I didn't grow up with healthy boundaries modeled so I can go overboard and be unkind to others in ways I don't realize when I think I'm being loving....sometimes what is loving to us isn't to others. And it's more about GOD'S love and less about ours.
We don't deserve that love but we are given it with grace. We are to share it. Times of isolation can be necessary but not permanent and shouldn't be too long.
I feel God gave my husband and I a time of isolation but then we felt the call to get back out there and rejected it because we were too comfortable in the isolation. It was easier in most ways. But we need to not be selfish with our love and joy from the Lord especially. It's meant to be spread.
Sometimes it isn’t by choice, but by abusive people who slander you to everyone. No one came to me for my side, they all just believed his side. But God allowed it to bring me back to Him and not be lukewarm. So it was a blessing.
He's talking about when it's by choice ❤ It can start out not by choice, even by God's will for us to root out toxic people, but we must recognize when it's time to start fresh. I think we get stuck in the comfort trap.....of feeling safe in that rest when we've accepted parts of the isolation that were necessary at one point....but then we reject the notion of risking more pain etc when we need to to be stronger....we need to have the healthy boundaries in our lives and that comes with the holy Spirit as well...then we need to pick up and go back out at some point.
I was kidnapped & attempted unalived. It brought me closer to God yet took me further away from the world. I don’t think that isolation is necessarily bad for me, quite the opposite. It was required for my sanity & recovery. I now do as God instructed and I guard my heart so as not to allow that experience to harden it. It took away my basic trust in man but God also told us to put our trust in NO man. So I think it can go both ways. Isolating oneself from the world doesn’t mean you’ve isolated yourself away from God. I had to leave the world behind to build my personal relationship with God. God told me to be IN this world but not OF this world. And regardless of my feelings, God still uses me to shine His light & I witness that when complete strangers approach me & talk with me like I’m their best friend. I know God sent them therefore I’m never closed off to them. I just have much better discernment now & couldn’t have gotten that without my time absolutely alone with God. No one to talk to but God. That can be a good isolation actually.
I’m trying to get out of isolation, but it seems like everything is working against me doing so. It’s suffocating and the feeling of disconnection is real.
Fr, like I want friends. And want people to talk about God. But there’s times where I just can’t handle it, I get way too overwhelmed or frustrated with just being with people, and I bet that’s a spiritual thing. But idk, I just have had so many times in my own personal life where I’ve trusted people or wanted to be friends with someone and they pretty much immediately turn away from me cuz they know I’m weird and awkward. I genuinely know I wasn’t meant to be here, I hate just the wickedness of this earth, I’ve been hurt by so many people in my life and even my own family to the point where Idek how to trust one. I want to, but I usually always end up hurting myself by over sharing too much of my life and journey with God or just talking about God to an unbeliever, it’s just not fun at all. I’d rather just rot sometimes in my bed and do nothing rather than go out be vulnerable. I have adhd and I have always just never fit in with other people. It’s literally like a curse. Never had a best friend, never had anyone in my family who can relate, never had anybody rlly, to the point where there’s time where I don’t even wanna trust God. Cuz idk how, I genuinely have gone through seasons of prayer, fasting, and just trying to live the right way. And have just fallen even deeper into my addictions and sins. It’s just like why? What am I doing wrong bro. 😔 genuinely just feel like a failure, a broken kid who God is putting together but still just ultimately broken. I want to get better, I want a better life, but truly it just feels like I’m trapped. I pray so much to him to just show me the way, and I end up falling even farther into the pit. Don’t know if I’ll ever escape this hellbent place tbh. I just want to be in Heaven with the Lord and at peace.
Wow, the angle through which brother spoke biblical wisdom is much needed.
Thanks, Lisa and John
Oh,i so loved your comment,it was perfect,and the fact you singned off with your names. I sensed special. All the best to you.
Amen brother. We all need the fellowship. Iron sharpens iron!❤️🔥
What if you have no on , only false friends etc
@@SunnyDlite84 Do you have a church? Fellowship is very important.
Amen Lord please open my heart Jesus
Please, Lord, bring me out of habitual isolation and teach me how to be open with others and seek community 🙏 Amen❤
My father is in this place he's been fighting with false prophets that he follows and gets truggered by the Word a lot. He's been physically and emotionally isolated for decades. Worse now with not working anymore.
I see the danger of myself being there. Recent loss unveiled this. I've relied heavily on a pet for 15 years, friends fell away, family died or moved, and I didn't bother to keep up with putting myself out there for new connections. I have my husband and kids, other parents are a struggle to deal with.
I know I could try certain church groups that have the major foundations for commonality, but I've become so fearful of the potential rejection that I shied away. My pet legitimately was a comfort to me in stead.
Now with my pet gone, I've felt the holy spirit telling me NOT to immediately get another pet (legit story of my life since a baby...my mom would repace one with one or two more). NOW I felt like I can't do that. I need to get refined. I need to reach out socially.
I was feeling this way from the holy spirit before these videos and I feel the message is confirmed. ❤ I felt I have SO much love to give. It's silly how much I love my gone pet. I got the answer in prayer that I've not been sharing that love (in appropriate ways of course lol) with anyone...with new acquaintances... I've been so shut up and avoiding hurt of rejection and I've been complaining about everytime somone is rude or whatever. But I need to stop that and just be loving....(Of course with healthy boundaries. ) 😅
This was an eye opening moment for me. I feel guilty that I have wanted to push the world away and run away and hide from it all, when in fact we NEED JESUS, we need community, we need that support and love from our fellow
man. Thank you for sharing.
Convicted. I didnt realize. I will work to stop isolating from my trauma.
I’m so glad I heard this spoken this way today thank you
Isolation in the heart… WOW. I’ve never heard of that before but I think I need to examine myself and work on my heart 😭
Father please keep us from the evil one.. help us to get out father😢
Jesus 😢 ❤
I didn't choose to be isolated.
After I asked God to reveal to me my real enemies, people in my circle began to mistreat & betray me including my own daughter.
This is when God began to pluck people out of my life one at a time
until I was completely alone.
Then He revealed to me that I was going into a season where He will teach me to get closer to Him, to love myself, & to rely on Him alone.
He's also pulling things out of me before taking me to the next level 🙏🏾💞🙏🏾
Wow this makes a lot of stuff more clear
The lord can heal... I couldnt trust anyone not even myself i thought. I spoke badly even to the lord when i wanst still reborn by his spirit. By he showed me how real he is then i told him that "if there is anyone that can make me trust him is you Lord if you are able to do it then i am yours... Do whatever you want with me" and my journey started he was so patient so kind, slowly showing me the truth, softening my heart, showing me what is love how do i feel it, what is to trust someone how they and you too gain their trust slowly by being faithful, and stable at your ways unchanging like him. There is always hope and what he starts he finishes he gained my trust the only thing i had to do is stay close to him and even when i couldnt because myself or the enemy got in the way he was faithful. Sometimes he waited patiemtly for me others he came emidietly to my rescue ❤.
You’re not isolated forever it’s just to prepare you. Jesus was isolated every now and then to pray, fast and to prepare Himself for what was about to take place.
But this is talking about when a man isolates himself. Not God isolating a man for a greater purpose.
It’s the man who has isolated himself and rejected people and God
Amen truth We Are Set Apart 🙏 relationship with GOD❤.
@@RachelDaveigathanks 🙏
On time word
This is one scripture that I want to meet with so many biblical scholars about. Because so many people confuse isolation for holy separation. Especially when they’re isolating because of pains they’ve endured that left them broken and hurt by people they trusted and/or loved. Where can I watch this whole video? Because this is discussion worthy.
Whew that was a mouth full right there 😮
Unfortunately some people are so rejected by others they are really not able to connect. The enemy uses this to bring them down and weaken them . The isolated person who wants to be connected is not able to do so due to the lies and malice of others.
True!!
Absolutely
Ameen ❤️🕊️✝️ Hallelujah
Very true
God isolated me, and nothing I did to connect worked, I was forced to turn to him. Only evening, while praising, I sang in what I now know is tongues, and this prompted a self deliverance, which was a huge shock. I never thought I needed deliverance.
Thank you for sharing a much needed piece of God's wisdom 🙏
Amen❣️
Amen
Wow thank you for sharing a powerful word. God bless ❤️
Amen!!!!
Amen 🙏
My ex did this!!! He isolated himself, hated himself, and was abusive to me! This is so real.
Hermit mode can be beneficial in short amounts... But totally agree with what was said... It's my life style... Go out into the world and then go inwards to reflect, learn and understand.
TRUTH 😳. . ❤️🩹💋
God's words in the bible varies in messages/interpretation based on each person's past/present/future circumstances, experiences and/or situation.
John, you and your wife always say just exactly what I need to hear. Thank you guys, you don’t even realize how much you’ve impacted my life. My fav sermon of yours is the fear of God.
I had a beautiful time with God when I am in isolation. God poured Himself into my heart and wisdom and knowledge through the word.
Thank you
So true!!
Wow this hit my heart! That's me!
What if you’re forced into isolation? My time in a year of bed rest was awful. But I needed my life to change & so the result of that isolation is the best blessing I’ve ever had. When it’s God’s will for the isolation, I think that’s a good indicator that your life was moving in the wrong direction and God needed to teach you how to be still.
Some people isolate themselves (even in a marriage) for their protection. They have been hurt so much and so deeply that this is the only way they can go on without breaking down or becoming bitter.
Truth
Yes I was letting myself get isolated, until God was making it known to me that I needed to make Christian friends. God made the friends come to me. I might still be isolated in my heart. What a wonderful thing that God is in the heart changing Business.
Wooow, wisdom
Thank you this just made me so aware of what im going through i need to find christian family
Holy Spirit, program my heart to love You and all men in the name of Jesus.
That was for me,thank you
I was isolated most of my life from other, no one was allowed in, but I am happy to say that I have been set free from that for 10 month now. To God be the glory!
We don't all choose it. I don't have friends but I enjoy conversations with my dad and my brother and the people I work with. I haven't found the group of people that are on the same journey with God that I am. Why would I want to hangout with people who do nothing but drink and smoke weed on their down time? God will bring me to the people I'm supposed to be friends with but he's still working on me.
Be the light in darkness and spread the gospel to them if you haven't already. God bless you in Jesus Christ name. I'm in the same season too
This is good teaching!
I never chose to be isolated. My parents never allowed me to go out except for school and working. A lot of people hate me for no reason. Why everything has to be my fault? Not enough money, my fault. When someone's sick, my fault. My mom died, my fault. My dad died, also my fault. And now this isolation is also my fault? I always study astrophysics when I'm alone, and I always alone anyway. I don't know how to talk to anyone, and my hand is shaking so hard when I'm trying to start a conversation. I'm always trying everyday how to act like a normal person. But it really hurts if people always blame me for everything that I don't even understand. I never choose this life anyway, but here I am trying my best just to act like what they called "a normal person"
Deuteronomy 31:8
The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand
Hebrews 4:15-16
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
1 Peter 5:6-7
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you
2 Corinthians 1:3-5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
Psalm 139:1-16
O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day,for darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 25
The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
Jesus Christ loves you ❤
God bless you my sister never give up. Don't rely on your own strength and understanding but on the strength and understanding of the lord. He will deliver you from that overwhelming feeling just give it to him and trust in him.
Thank you!
Wow this is is so true. Once you shit down it is like isolating yourself off of anyone.
This is soooo good!!!
True. . Pray for people. We are all in this realm. Pray
COME OUT OF THE WORLD MY PPL!!! ~GOD
I'm an isolationist and am closer to God now than at any other time of my life.
Amen
Wisdom
Amen...Brother John Bevere..
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Blessings ❤
this is me towards my mom and just people in general. i have a very short fuse when it comes to my mom, but all in all i really do tend to just avoid people.
BLESS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO'S GOD OF ALL BE HIS GLORY ALLEULIAAA AMEN. REMEMBER JOHN WAS PUT INTO ISOLATION THAT HE COULD PREPARED THE WAY FOR THE LORD MARK. 1:3. REV,1:9,10 ♥️📖🔑AMEN 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
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Amen 😊very true
John, I greatly appreciate this! This completely describes my marriage! 😢
Wow
Thank you for this!I is very eye opening!
Isolation by yourself is bad but isolation With the Lord that’s where the spiritual growth start. Because Jesus will spend time with the father in prayer in the morning and as fasting as well.
AMEN
Eye opening 😮
Wohh,thank you for elaborating on this!! This has helped me a lot!
Seasons 🙏 Every key person in the Bible had a lonely/wilderness seasons. Always to break and rebuild. Always to draw closer. Jesus constantly stepped away from His disciples and crowds after interaction to pray and draw closer to God. Stepping away is important to stay aligned. God wakes people up when there's no one else to stimulate your mind. But self destructive isolation is purely of the devil. Shutting every door that God wants to heal and bless us. Stay discerned beloved 🙏
I’ll have to listen to the whole message, because this part alone is insufficient. Once a person has been deceived by a wolf, trusting people is HARD! We, the church, have to start being more courageous about protecting our families from these wolves who come right into the flock; that’s why they disguise as SHEEP!!! So, who’s gonna start stepping up and calling them out. I’ll tell you for dang sure, some of us who’ve been attacked by wolves will. Looking forward to hearing the message.
Isolation is ok but only if we stick to God and his words and fellowship when led to. But most people are only interested in themselves nowadays so best to be alone than among wolves.
❤It is true that a close hearth make it less easy to have good communication with others. But mobbing situations or ignorance or cursing because you are a choosen one maybee can be difficult to come out again after heart broken situations. So we only can fight such battles by our great big Lord that means if Jesus changes our heart and give us a new heart who can handle greater challenges by the guidance of the holy spirit. The more you grow the more new situations and challenges and the same thing in reverse too... Jesus loves us so deeply in Jesus name Amen... JESUS HELPS US to built resilience for life ❤❤❤Halleluja
I go church ⛪️ but dont really know anyone. They dont know me, so i feel isolated, not that I am not friendly, anyone feel the same, or it just me? I love Jesus. I just find it hard at times.
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Take this message to The Lord. Seasons of sanctification can look like isolation and seasons of isolation sometimes come before breakthrough. If you’re walking uprightly, you will experience isolation (at some point for an unknown period of time). Finally, a loner who’s walking with Christ is not sinning, but the person surrounded by tons of smilers could be operating in people pleasing. Messages like this don’t work in short, 30 second clips and you would do well to pray that the church would learn how to fellowship with the more unique (and even the traumatized) members of its own body, because those are the ones who are usually ostracized and misunderstood in religious/spiritual circles.
Have you sat and listened to people? Truly listened ? I did not speak not 1 single word for 6 months and let me tell you. My body physically naturally isolated. I have to work really hard to be social and affectionate. It’s draining.
If we look at this passage in its context.
Its speaking about a person who has consciously decided to step away from his faith for lack of humility towards the word. What the book of proverbs is clearly trying to show us in its essence are 2 types of characters.
-Those who humble themselves beofre the Lord. Or rather (Fear the Lord) as mentioned in (Proverbs 1:7)
Seeking wisdom and understanding of the knowledge of God even after heavy descipline.
-And those who are wicked. Because of their lack of humility towards the descipline of the Lord
If we read (Proverbs 5:23)
What we see hear is one mans heart is earnest whilst the other is prideful and his use of the word of God is understanding for the sake of validation from his peers.
(Proverbs 6:16-19)
The author of Proverbs
(King Solomon) is giving us an even more deeper description of the type of person God himself is trying to describe here reffering to the person who the man in the video is trying to describe in regards to the passage of scripture in Proverbs 18:1
So to conclude and respectfully id like to let yous know this aint reffering to a person who is being led into a season of isolation. We see multiple implications of Prophets from the old testament in a season of isolation. Abram before he was Abraham we see that he was isolated from his land and family for decades out of faith and obedience and gained patience and was very old before he received his blessing.
Saul who became the Apostle Paul before stepping into ministry departed to Arabia for 3 years after receiving his sight back. Even Jesus sought solitude to pray during his minstry and before he chose the 12 Apostles he was led into the wilderness by the holy spirit for 40 days and nights to fast before his official ministry.
Moral
-is a season of solitude led by God is for one to grow in all the things God considers good in preparation for the plan he has for you.
-but solitude decided by ones self is a decision made from a man not led by God will only lead to to his fall.
Theres alot more to cover on this but im sure this sums it up.
Anyway...i hope this helps
Shalom brothers and sisters
In your walk may the Lord bless you in his great abundance with all the things he considets good. 🙏🏽
Very helpful! Thank-you for theses scriptures.
What if you isolate yourself because of people letting you down and deceiving and hurting your heart.
The problem is I don’t want to be isolated but I live alone. All my friends are married and have kids. The enemy has divided people and my generation has a great divide between men and women. It feels hopeless. I DONT WANT TO BE ALONE. Been more and more depressed and having suicidal ideation.
That’s why when men lie about their wives, I always ask them what did they do to her. Many men are walking around bashing and shaming women yet in reality they had shut up their heart towards her. That act has nothing or mainly nothing to do with the woman. That is a long standing issue. Men of God should know better.
I think many people refuse to see the value in trusting in the faith of Jesus
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Not in all situations.
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Is there a full teaching on this i believe I need to hear this and receive correction and understanding. 🙏🏾💕🥺
So its time first know ur authority secound be strong caragouis let him show you through word as the spiritual realm is reality let him show u what it is then bind cast lose get ur Ground back Christ rose for u to know that he is way truth life pray for enemies Spirit lead u i send u among wolves to be slatered No..
No the word we r not of this world count stars that and the sand who comes to give u life
Luke 1:80 (KJV): "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel."
God sometimes sets people aside. External isolation is not always a bad thing. Rend your heart, weep and mourn; for those who sow in tears reap in joy.
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Persecution will separate you with a lot of people!
Believers need to learn to hear God for themselves. Be alone with God, it is not wrong
We isolate at work because of a toxic environment.