{"id":10981,"date":"2012-09-13T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2012-11-15T21:11:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T03:11:02","slug":"never-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/never-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart is amazed at just how big this world is and how technology can keep us in touch with those who have moved away from us.\u00a0 But sometimes, my heart is even more amazed at just how alone we can feel even though people are close to us physically as well as through technology.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/We-are-never-alone.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-10982\" title=\"We-are-never-alone\" src=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/We-are-never-alone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/We-are-never-alone.jpg 612w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/We-are-never-alone-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/We-are-never-alone-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/We-are-never-alone-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/We-are-never-alone-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/We-are-never-alone-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We often feel alone when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pain in the night is unbearable<\/li>\n<li>The silence is deafening<\/li>\n<li>Friends should rejoice with us but are envious<\/li>\n<li>Family squabbles become bitter feuds<\/li>\n<li>The darkness engulfs us<\/li>\n<li>The well deserved promotion is shot down by assumptions<\/li>\n<li>No one understands<\/li>\n<li>Everyone says they understand but act as if they could care less<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve tried a million times but continue to feel like a failure<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve asked for forgiveness but there is no hope of receiving it<\/li>\n<li>Good news is overshadowed by great hurt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably been there and felt as if your prayers were going no further than the ceiling.\u00a0 Let me remind you that not only does your Heavenly Father hear those cries, they matter to Him.\u00a0 He hears you and cares about what your heart is feeling.<\/p>\n<p>The time you feel completely alone is when you typically withdraw and close your heart off to the world.\u00a0 Worse than that, you close your Bible and think; I don\u2019t even know what to pray, so why bother and you let isolation MOVE YOU from your Father\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>God never moves from us.\u00a0 We move from Him.\u00a0 But, even when we stray, move or completely ignore Him\u2026we are never alone.<\/p>\n<p>What verses do you wrap yourself in when you feel completely alone?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><em>Please leave them below and encourage those that are feeling completely alone.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I Know You\u2019re There <\/span><\/h6>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=98nG3xH02wo&amp;feature=related<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>2 Chronicles 13:12<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>And, behold, God himself is\u00a0<strong>with us<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">2 Chronicles 32:8<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em> With him is an arm of flesh; but\u00a0<strong>with us<\/strong>\u00a0is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">You\u2019re Not alone<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YKj4Fcp5S1o<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Deut 31:6<\/span> <em><strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the\u00a0Lord\u00a0thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Isaiah 41:10<\/span> <em>Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">God With Us<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4N_s6nfdxew<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Lamentations 3:24-25\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I say to myself, \u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0is my portion;\u00a0therefore I will wait for him.<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>The\u00a0Lord\u00a0is good to those whose hope is in him,\u00a0to the one who seeks him;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart is amazed at just how big this world is and how technology can keep us in touch with those who have moved away from us.\u00a0 But sometimes, my heart is even more amazed at just how alone we can feel even though people are close to us physically as well as through technology.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/never-alone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Never Alone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[3702,4271,5828,56,2251,3942,5826,67,5827,223,184,32,1516,590,233,5829,183,5503,1707,2578],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived","category-marie","tag-2-chronicles","tag-amp","tag-assumptions","tag-bible","tag-darkness","tag-failure","tag-family-squabbles","tag-fear","tag-feuds","tag-flesh","tag-forgiveness","tag-god","tag-good-courage","tag-heart","tag-heavenly-father","tag-isolation","tag-million-times","tag-nbsp","tag-prayers","tag-silence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}