Breaking Free From Isolation: 3 Biblical Reminders to Overcome Loneliness

You know what's the one place where the enemy wants you to be at when you're going through a hard season, especially

in the season of loneliness? The enemy wants you to isolate yourselves from everyone else. Why [music] is that? It's

because isolation is the pathway to deception. How many times have we seen people become deceived all because they

[music] have become isolated? That's why I want to encourage you today by this message called breaking [music] free

from isolation. And if you just stay with me in these next 15 to 20 minutes, I know that this word is going to help

you and it is going to encourage you. So today I want to give you three reminders to help you to break free from

isolation. The first one is this is that isolation opens the door to temptation. Isn't that true? Haven't you noticed

that when you're in a season of isolation, when you're in a season of loneliness, that the enemy will often

tempt you to do something ungodly? He will start telling you to watch certain things that you shouldn't be watching or

he'll have you catering to your desires, catering to your flesh, and you find yourself wanting to do all of these

things because you are in an isolated place listening to the enemy. And to be honest with you, that's what happened

with David. Let me read this. It says in 2 Samuel 11:2, it says, "Late one afternoon after his midday rest, David

got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of

unusual beauty. You see, first off, David was never even supposed to be at home hanging out, chilling. He was

supposed to be at war. It was war season. But David isolated himself and he put himself in a season of rest. And

when he was isolated, that's when the temptation started to come in. And I know that that could happen so easily

for you and I. When we're all by oursel, when we're all alone, or how many of you guys had it when you're bored, when

you're bored and you have nothing to do, what ends up happening? you end up finding yourself, you know, doing things

that you might not necessarily do when you're actually in a place where God has called you to be. And that's the issue

with David. David was all alone by himself and then he sees a woman bathing and what happens? His desires start to

kick in and he finds himself wanting to go into know to get to know this girl Basheba. Now, I want to encourage you

today that when you're in isolated place, that's when the temptation gets higher. Because isolation always opens

the door to temptation. And when you're in this place all by yourself, the enemy starts feeding you these lies and he

starts telling you, "Oh, you should go watch a little bit of those adult films." Why? Because it's going to

comfort you. Or, "Hey, nobody cares about you. You know, nobody wants to, you know, hang out with you." So let's

let's get yourself all alone by yourself. And you start finding yourself compromising and doing things that you

wouldn't do. And where does this take place? Oftent times take place in isolation. And isolation wants to break

your conviction. That's why I think it's so imperative that you and I are mindful when we're all by ourselves. Because

when we're all alone, it is so easy for us to partner with our desires. You know, it's interesting. I was reading

the book of Proverbs and I stumbled upon this verse and I want to read this to you. It says in Proverbs 18:1, "He who

isolates himself pursues selfish desires. He rebels against all sound judgment." It says that when you isolate

yourself, you start to pursue selfish desires. See, when you're all by yourself, your flesh wants to lead you.

When you're all by yourself, your flesh wants to guide you. And your flesh want you to do things that are against your

convictions. That's why I truly believe that we have to be mindful in this season of isolation, in this season of

loneliness, because in this season, it is so easily when you're lonely to drop your guard. We drop our guard because we

want to be comforted. We drop our guard because we don't want to be in this place because we don't like, you know,

to be alone. So what ends up happening is is that we get the temptation of compromising. And that's where we have

to be mindful to guard oursel in a season of loneliness and isolation because it's very easy for you to

compromise when you are lonely. It's very easy for you to settle and to do things when you are lonely because you

don't like to be alone. I want to encourage you today that when you're in this season, guard yourself. Take some

time with the Lord. Don't be all alone. I love what my friend Pastor Vlad says. He says, "Boredom leads to bondage."

When you're all bored doing nothing, don't just sit there and scroll on social media. Instead, seek the Lord.

Get into community. Why? Because isolation is the open door to temptation. This is how David fell.

Because he was all alone, all by himself with his thoughts. And your thoughts, you guys, not all of them are godly. And

those thoughts want to entertain you. And those thoughts want to want literally want you to partner up with

them. So I want to tell you if we want to break free from isolation then we literally need to close the door to

these temptations and we need to seek Jesus. The second thing I would encourage you to do if we want to break

free from the spirit of isolation is that number two says isolation breaks in the presence of community. It's so

interesting because I was um watching this wrestling clip and I was seeing that this guy, right, he was fighting

this this wrestler and he was getting beat up on and it was a tag team match and there was a guy, his partner

literally saying, "Tag me in, tag me in. Tag me in." But what does the wrestler do? He's like, "Nah, bro. I got it. I

don't need your help." So anyways, long story short, he ends up, you know, fighting this guy in this wrestling

match and then he gets pinned and then the referee goes one, two, three, and the guy gets knocked out. And the guy on

the side, his partner's like, "Dude, why didn't you tag me in?" When I saw that, I thought, "How many of us are just like

that wrestler?" We have people on the side of us, but our pride won't allow us to tag them in.

Our pride says, "I could handle the season of loneliness. I could handle the season of isolation. I could handle the

season all by myself. I don't need anyone." But that is a lie. We are better together. We are stronger

together. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 4:9, it says, "Two people are better off than one. If one person falls, the other

could reach out and help." There is people in your life right now who want to help you in this season, who want to

strengthen you, who want to comfort you. But what happens is is that our flesh says, "I'm good. I can handle this

season on my own." And I want to tell you that that is a lie because we need each other. The scripture also reminds

us is that iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. You don't have to do this life all alone, all by

yourself. And the moment that you start doing life all alone, all by yourself, you know what happens? You end up

setting yourself back so much further. Haven't you seen that in people's lives? I know I've seen that in my own life.

When I feel like I can handle something where I know I need help in and I don't ask for that help, it just hinders me

and it delays me. Because the enemy guys, he wants us to be focused on our pride and he doesn't want us to invite

people along in our journey. But we have to remind ourselves that God has placed ordained people in our life to help us

in this journey. We're not called to be all alone. We're not called to be all by ourselves. We're not called to do this

life by ourselves. We are called to have community. And I believe that when you bring somebody along in your journey, it

will help you a whole lot easier. And the issue is is that going back to it, it's the spirit of pride. But here's

what I know. When you operate in pride, you will not operate in peace. You need people's help. But the only way that

people could help you is if that you're vulnerable and you're open for their help. like that wrestler, if he would

have just said, "Dude, let me tag you in, he could have been able to defeat his opponent." But too often, our pride,

our ego says, "I don't need anybody's help. I can do this all by myself." But I want to encourage you today, do not

allow the enemy to take out ungodly people in your life and make you think that you can do this alone. He actually

wants you to do it alone. Why? Because it's easier. It's easier to attack an isolated person than it is somebody who

has community around them. But notice, even in the animal kingdom, the easiest way to go and attack somebody is not

when they're in a a herd of people. It's when they're all alone. The enemy wants you to attack you all alone. So you

don't have somebody on your side where you don't have somebody that's praying for you where you don't have somebody

that's interceding for you where you don't have somebody that's checking up on you. No, no, no. He wants you to do

it all alone all by yourself cuz he knows if I can get you alone, it is easier to tempt you. It is easier to

entertain you and then eventually he will destroy you. That's why I want to encourage you today. Hang out with some

godly friends. Get into church. Get into Bible study. Get into community because we do life better together. Stop

allowing your mind saying that, "Oh no, I just want to be all alone and all by myself because I'm just in this dark

season." Look, your season doesn't need to be dark. If you're bringing the light into your situation, if you're bringing

God into your situation and people of light, people who are godly, they're going to help you out in that situation

and in that season. So today if you want to break free from isolation then it all breaks in the presence of community my

friend we are better together and the third thing I want to remind you is this is that isolation is an invitation to

seek God's presence you know one thing I love about Jesus is that the Bible teaches us that he often withdrew to the

wilderness for prayer you know there were so many times where the crowds would want the best of him right The

crowds would want Jesus to do miracles, to pray for them. But what I love what Jesus did is that when he withdrew from

the crowd, he didn't withdraw from everybody. He just withdrew from people, but he connected with Jesus. I want to

tell you in this moment when you are alone and all by yourself, let isolation be an invitation to God's presence. When

you're all alone by yourself, keep seeking the presence of Jesus. Because when you start connecting with God, God

starts to refresh you. He starts to restore you. He starts to revitalize you and he starts to help you out in these

areas in your life. You know, many times I have friends tell me like, "Rich, I'm just bored." Or, "Man, Rich, I'm in this

lonely season. I don't know what to do." Here's what I'll tell you to do. Keep seeking God. Keep seeking his presence

because the more you seek God's presence, God starts to fill you with his peace and he starts filling you with

your wisdom, then you find yourself not partnering with the enemy's lies and you start walking in God's truth. You see,

some of you here today are not walking in God's truth because you walked away from God's word. You don't spend time in

his presence. You spend time on social media. You don't spend time hanging out with Jesus. You spend time entertaining

the thoughts and the lies of the enemy. This is why loneliness has gotten the best of you. This is why the season of

isolation is causing you to want to fall for temptation. But I want to encourage you, my friend. If you seek Jesus and

you seek his presence, then he's going to fill you with his word and with his truth. But how does this all happen? It

happens when we withdraw from people, the crowd, and those thoughts and we start to connect with God. So today, if

you're feeling isolated, if you're feeling alone, and if you're feeling by yourself, Jesus is there for you. The

Bible says that God would never leave us for or forsake us. The Bible says that he is closer to us than any

[clears throat] brother. The Lord wants to hang out with you. He wants to encourage you. He wants to inspire you.

He wants to strengthen you. But so today, if that's you and you're dealing with loneliness, I want to encourage you

to seek him and seek community. Don't do life all by yourself and don't don't be by yourself idol minded. Why? Because

the old saying goes, idol mind is the enemy's playground. The enemy wants you to be alone with your thoughts, not

hanging alone by yourself with Jesus. Because if he can get you isolated like Proverbs 18:1 says, then eventually you

will follow the desires of your flesh and not the spirit of God. So today, I hope this word helped you. And if you

need encouragement or if you feel lonely, email us at hell lovewaysministries.com

or go on social media, hit myself up at Richard Delura or Britney Delura on Instagram or Facebook. We want to help

you. We want to help you in this battle because you're not called to do life alone. You're called to do life with

community. So before I end, I want to pray for every single one of us right now. Father, I thank you for every

single listener, God. And God, right now, I break the spirit of loneliness, God. They might be alone, but God, I

pray in the name of Jesus that they won't feel lonely. I pray God that the spirit of joy, that the spirit of

strength, that the spirit of peace would surround and govern their mind. God, even in this season, God, I thank you,

Jesus, right now for the blood of Jesus that covers them. I pray that you would anoint them and you would give them

supernatural grace in this season, God. God, I thank you for every single listener as we break free from

isolation, God, and we fight against loneliness, God, and we understand, God, that we don't have to do life alone

because we have great community together, Lord. So, God, I thank you for today and I pray a blessing with this

community in Jesus' name. Well, guys, I hope this video blessed you and if you did, could you comment it, like it? I

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