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Alone...with God!
Contributed by Wes Gunther on Mar 25, 2019 (message contributor)
Summary: We need to turn loneliness into times of being Alone with God!
Alone…with God
Exodus 3:1-15
Enoch was walking alone when God took him
Noah was all alone building the ark
Samuel was all alone when God spoke to him at night
Joseph was alone multiple times
Jacob was alone when he wrestled the messenger of God
Gideon was alone hiding from the enemy
Elijah was alone on Mount Carmel, and later by the brook
David was alone in the valley facing the Giant
Jeremiah was alone in the miry pit
Esther was alone approaching the king
Daniel was alone in the Lion’s Den
The three Hebrew children stood alone against the Kings Idol
Jonah was alone in Nineveh
Jesus was often alone praying
Paul found himself alone on and after the road to Damascus
Stephen was alone facing his executioners
John the Apostle was alone on the Isle of Patmos
• What great moment with God didn’t happen without a point of being alone??
I. When we are alone – distractions are gone.
a. We are to have an upward Relationship
b. We are to have outward Relationships
c. We are to have an inward Evaluation
d. When alone – God gets our full attention
II. When we are alone – we hear the Still Small Voice of God
III. When we are alone we think
a. Either meditate on the Word of God
b. Idle mind is the Devil’s Workshop
IV. When we are alone – we are more productive
V. When we are alone – we are more honest with ourselves and therefore God