Hebrews 10:24-25 New International Version (NIV)

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

About Loneliness

Loneliness is accompanied by emotional suffering—the pain of feeling separate and disconnected. Loneliness as isolation is a deeply conflicted sense of the fear that one’s perceived inextricable attachments to others are being pulled and split apart, or are absent.

Statistics on Loneliness in America…

Cigna and Ipsos (4) surveyed 20,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, and almost half report feeling alone (40%) or left out (47 %). One in four (27 %) feel they are not understood. Two in five (43 %) feel relations are not meaningful and they feel isolated (43%). Generation Z (those born after about 1995) was found to be the loneliest generation.

POSSIBLE CAUSES OF LONELINESS:

Changes and Transitions in Life!

Death or Separation in the family!

Rejection and Abandonment!

HOW TO RISE ABOVE LONELINESS

Learn to dwell in the presence of God daily.

Psalm 84:10-12; 91:1

Stand on God’s Promises

Hebrew 13:5b; Psalm 119:89; Mark 13:31

Establish an accountability Partner

Ecclesiastes 4:10

Avoid Isolation

Genesis 2:18

CONCLUSION

“When I feel truly alone, with a sense of being lost, even empty inside, it is then I realize I have unknowingly moved away from God, so I move back" - David L. Weatherford