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At the Movies
“When You Feel Alone”
Carl Nichols

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

— Mother Teresa

What Causes Loneliness Today?

Family breakdown

Mobility

Heavy workloads

Social media

Jesus Understands Your Loneliness:

1. Lonely in His Own Family

Mark 3:21

When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

John 7:5

For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain...

Jesus Understands Your Loneliness:

2. Lonely Around His Friends

Matthew 26:36-46

Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 

Matthew 26:36-46

Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

Matthew 26:36-46

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

Matthew 26:36-46

Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 26:36-46

He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”

Matthew 26:36-46

When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

Matthew 26:36-46

Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”

Jesus Understands Your Loneliness:

3. Lonely on the Cross

Matthew 27:46

“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Effectively processing your loneliness could be the the thing that prepares you to step into your destiny.

Four Ways to Address Your Feelings of Loneliness: 

1. Name it - “I feel lonely.”

2. Talk to God about it - “God, I feel lonely and I need your peace.”

3. Limit social media use

4. Talk to a Relevant counselor