February 19, 2024 • 25 mins
As the frost of winter's loneliness settled deep within my own spirit, a profound lesson emerged from the silence: solitude can transform into a sanctuary for growth and communion with the divine. Today, I invite you to walk with me through the spiritual 'winter season' we all encounter, where the chill of isolation can actually nurture our innermost connections with God. In our latest episode, we traverse the path from feeling alone in our faith to recognizing the quiet as an abundant space for revelation and divine whispers. Cutshred Revivals stands as a testament to the strength we find in communal belief, supporting each other in the quest for companionship and solace in our beliefs.
Have you ever considered the possibility that the very pangs of loneliness you fear could be a hidden wellspring of wisdom and character? This broadcast peels back the layers of solitude, sharing how my own experiences of seclusion in the '90s became a crucible for spiritual clarity and purpose. We reflect on the biblical stories of Adam and Elijah, finding parallels in our contemporary search for meaning and connection. Through tales of past and scripture, we uncover the comfort and assurance in knowing that even when we feel most alone, God's presence is a constant companion, offering strength and guiding us toward a deeper faith.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
God bless you.
This is Prophet Jerusalem.
Welcome to the United Faith TVprogram.
Today our subject is dealingwith a very area that we often
find ourselves there how toovercome loneliness while
seeking God.
What is God's answer toloneliness?
Well, I'm gonna minister thisteaching to you loneliness how
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does it benefit you?
Because many times lonelinessbrings you to a place where
you're more focused, you're morecentered, or where you want to
go your destination.
Often, in the busy streams oflife, we get so distracted and
that distraction, often time,calls us to get off track and
God's got to bring us alwaysback with.
(00:46):
We got onto an exit and nowhe's gonna bring us all the way
back to full circle again.
So I wanna teach to you how toovercome loneliness while
seeking God, because even Adamwanted somebody in his life.
So God put Adam to sleep,pulled a, ribbed out and created
Eve.
Well, he was in the state thathe, you know, longing as
(01:11):
relationships, seeking outrelationship.
That's why this ministry iscalled Cutshred Revivals,
because it's a family ministry.
When I talk about family, Italk about you and I I pastor, I
leader, I staff, I partneraround the world.
We make up a big family as awhole.
Now imagine one could put 1,000flights, two could put 10,000
(01:34):
flights.
So, together, as we march andwe raise that standard, imagine
what we can do together for theglory of God.
So thank you again for joiningus today.
We're talking about overcomingloneliness while seeking God,
and then we're gonna talk aboutGod's answer to loneliness, and
(01:56):
much more in this broadcast tohelp you develop you in your
spiritual walk with God.
Have that keen rebuttoryinsight into your tomorrow,
because your tomorrow is betterthan your today.
Your tomorrow is brighter.
Your tomorrow is the heavensgoing to open over your life.
Your tomorrow is better thanwhat you see yourself right now.
(02:18):
All right, how to overcomeloneliness?
Great is he that's in us and hethat's in the world.
Well, we end this world, butwe're not of this world.
But every day there's life'schallenges, there's
circumstances that we often gothrough, there's life battles
that we often face, and there'smany times we don't have answers
(02:38):
to our own questions.
But you can find reinsurance inGod that blesses the assurance
that Jesus is mine.
Oh, what a full taste of glory.
Divine Heirs of salvation,purchased with his love, by his
blood, am I redeemed of God?
So, as followers of Jesus, aspart of God's kingdom of priests
(03:00):
.
We need to understand what rolewe play in the kingdom.
How does loneliness benefit usand how does the enemy use
loneliness?
First, peter, chapter 2,.
Peter begins to write you are achosen people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, god'sspecial possession.
(03:20):
That you may declare thepraises of Him who will call you
out of darkness to Hismarvelous, wonderful light.
What we do understand, peter,is saying you are chosen.
So when you are chosen, you cansee loneliness as a place where
God develops your walk.
(03:42):
Loneliness, let's deal with it.
How to overcome loneliness?
Let me give you the keys today.
Number one you have to sendyour attention on what you
believe.
Loneliness comes to be ateacher to you, because now you
don't have that support systemof another individual.
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So now you find yourself inthis isolated place.
But out of isolation comesrevelation.
In this isolation we begin tolearn.
What season are we in?
Well, loneliness comes in yourwinter season, not your summer
season, not your spring seasonor your autumn season.
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It comes in your winter season.
Winter develops you more thanany other season you ever walk
through.
You learn to how to overcome bydiscerning, paying attention to
what season you're in.
So, first and foremost, in thewinter season you identify who
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you have become in the Lordthrough all the season up to
that winter season.
Now it becomes a vivid image toyou, a painted canvas that you
note.
This is winter season.
You become the habitation ofGod.
You inhabit the praises of us.
But in other words, now thatwe're in this winter season, we
got to approach it with amindset where we're going to
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refocus.
We know that winter does this.
It's a lonely period in one'slife.
Loneliness comes in the winterseason.
Well, winter also teaches youhow to overcome loneliness while
seeking God.
Number one, what do you do?
You have to understand how toovercome it first.
You overcome it by having yourfocus.
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You overcome by staying on theword.
You overcome it by believingwhat you already heard God speak
to you while you're in yourwinter season.
Because in winter seasoneverything in your life is going
to slow down.
It's going to feel like thedays are so long and the nights
are still so short.
And in that long process,throughout that whole entire day
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, entire weeks and months,you're going to find yourself in
that winter season Weary,fatigue.
But out of that lonelinesscomes revelation.
We always think, you know, weget the revelation on the
mountain, and that's not true.
Majority of revelation comesand there's quiet places, there
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are quiet moments of your life.
There are places where youdon't have distractions.
There are places where youdon't have distractions
family-line distractions, a jobyou know you've got your focus
right there, full, dedicate, tofind out what is the purpose of
me coming out of this winter.
What is the purpose for mecoming out of this cave, this
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test?
Well, the winter season willteach you how to overcome
because it's going to cause youto be in a place where you have
to be still.
It's going to teach you thatyou can't be impatient and
frantic and a hurry.
It's going to teach you how torely on the word of God.
It's going to teach you how tobe still.
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Psalm 23, he teaches us he liesto the side, still waters.
Well, he would teach in Davidthat he's the shepherd of his
life, but also he would build agiant inside of him.
He would build a giant slayerinside of him.
So you had to teach David.
There are times in your walk,your ministry, your life, your
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business what are the cases maybe, that loneliness somewhere of
another is going to come.
How do you approach loneliness.
How do you accept loneliness?
You approach loneliness.
You accept loneliness by sayingyou know what?
I can't rush this season.
Let this winter season developme to overcome loneliness while
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I'm seeking God.
I'm gonna take advantage thatall the distractions are out of
the way.
I'm not gonna be in a hurry,I'm not gonna be impatient, I'm
gonna wait upon the Lord becauseI realize waiting, I am
mountain with new strength thatI never harnessed before.
So now, here you are.
Psalm 23 to Psalmist David saidhe lies me beside still waters.
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Because now the next thing istaking place.
I'm being refocused, I'm not ina hurry.
I'm gonna take advantage ofloneliness and develop character
, increase the anointing on mylife, find the principle of
faith that I've neverexperienced thus far.
Until that time, I'm gonna takethis winter season that
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identify the lonelinessappearance in my life.
But then I'm gonna take thisloneliness.
Let it be a cave that teach mewhat a platform will not teach
me.
Do you realize the cave ofloneliness will teach you what a
platform will not, because in aplatform you're always attended
to everybody else's needs.
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A platform you're alwaysaddressing every other problem
in everybody else's life.
But the cave of loneliness, itspeaks to you to your situation,
it speaks to your surrounding.
It becomes a cave where yourealize you can't get around
this.
But now I can learn from this.
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I can allow this experience tobring revelation to me.
So, number two the cave ofloneliness.
How'd ever come lonelinesswhile seeking God?
Number two God's voice becomesclear in your life.
God's voice is more clear.
You're hitting bullseye.
More accuracy in your propheticgift, you're a waltz with God.
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So you start hearing,identifying the voice a little
more clear, because now youdon't have the busy streams,
waters running around you.
You realize that opportunity isknocking at the doors and God's
gonna do what he says.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'mso glad that you're joining us
on a Night in Faith TV program.
This is Prof Trisha Allen Cook.
Listen, I want to stop just amoment right now to remind you.
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What we're about to do in theSchool of Reluct Profits my God,
the last time we had School ofReluct Profits so tremendous,
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We want you to be able to goahead and have an opportunity.
We're going to teach you aboutthe gifts of the Spirit, the
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We're going to teach you aboutwhat the gifts are, what the
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We're going to teach you how tohave those gifts operating your
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In other words, in themarketplaces.
Wherever you go, you can havethose gifts operating your life.
So that would be in our newyear, 2024, as well.
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So we do not want you to missthe opportunity to be educated
into the deeper things of theprophetic.
Well, I'm so glad to be able toteach this to you.
How do I ever come low on thiswhile seeking God?
Well, how do you do it, prof?
Well, I'm glad you asked thatquestion.
How did I ever come low on this?
That was a period, early 90s,where I was isolated from
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everyone and during that time Ikept myself into a place of
worship, praise, even though Ididn't understand that season.
That winter season felt likedeath.
It felt like the isolation wasovercoming me like a garment of
heaviness.
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But then I learned from theisolation messages, books,
ministry, the future, where Iwas going.
It all took that lonelinesswhile seeking God.
How to overcome it.
While seeking God, I had tolearn that the Elijah syndrome.
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I'm not in this by myself.
God has 7,000 more that havenot been.
Their need to the cave ofloneliness, to the precious of
life, to the principalities ofthe world.
So I understand it and Ianalyze it came to a reality.
Okay, I'm not the only onegoing through something.
I'm not the only one that'sisolated for a purpose.
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I'm not the only one that Godseparated unto himself.
Then I began to understand why Ihad to go through that winter
season of loneliness, how toovercome it.
I overcame it by focusing.
I overcame it by reading theword of God, worship and praise
and nonstop being attentive andserving.
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I learned that the ingredientsto unlock the miraculous came
out of my loneliness season.
All the books that we wrotecame out of that season of
loneliness.
The revelation, the message youget came out of that place,
that place of back and thatplace of brokenness, that place
of loneliness, that place whereyou don't want to identify with
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it because you don't want towalk through it, but it's
necessary for your developmentand character, your growth and
wisdom and knowledge, and inintensify your faith, to believe
the report of God.
Oh, my God, loneliness.
Elijah had to learn how toovercome loneliness because he
had that mentality.
I'm the only one.
No, no, no, no, no.
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There's 7,000 more that respondback to Elijah.
You're not the only prophet,you're not the only person,
you're not the only individual.
There's 7,000 more that aregoing through the front of some
affliction.
There's 7,000 more that backsup against the wall.
There's 7,000 more that feellike they want to quit.
There's 7,000 more.
While you succumbing anddepression discourage men and
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loneliness, I've got 7,000 morethat have not bent their knees
to the powers of error.
So that allowed Elijah to sayyou know what?
Let me get up out of here andprophesy it again.
Let me get on my feet andprophesy it.
The ravens came to feed them.
Then God sent it down toZarephia, to a widow woman, to
spare her son, to bringprosperity to her home.
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See, everything you go throughbrings a miracle behind it.
Everything you encounter bringsa breakthrough behind it.
Everything you need God to be,it's in place of where you have
to be still and let God be God.
Once you allow God to be God,then he'll prove himself in
salvation.
He'll prove himself indeliverance.
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Stand still and see thesalvation of the Lord.
Watch God's deliverance.
Whatever your Red Sea is today,whatever your face, whatever
armies of the enemies, that'snot been at your heels, god will
make a way and an exit out ofit.
All you gotta do is follow thevoice of the Lord and exit out
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and go into the interest way ofGod's blessings and God's divine
favor.
So we're talking today how toovercome loneliness while
seeking God.
God's answer to loneliness is inhis presence, psalm 91, in the
shadow of the Almighty God, heis carrying me into his
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provision, his blessings.
So Psalm 91 is God's answer toloneliness.
He begins to tell you I'llnever forsake you, I'll never
leave you, I'll never abandonyou.
That's God's guarantee.
His presence gives you Hisguarantee that you'll overcome
the winter season and you'll bea better Christian, a better
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ministry, a better businessperson.
Why?
Because winter teaches you I'vegot to lean on God, I've got to
lean on the arm of God, I'vegot to trust ship.
Because I cannot rush thisseason.
This season is billing me, thisseason is preparing my
character, this season isproducing the anointing.
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And out of that you may feellike I don't want to go through
loneliness.
I don't want to go through thatcave of loneliness.
No one does, but one thing Goddoes do.
There are times in the season inyour life if you have not
learned this by the Lord in aprophetic ministry, he will go
silent on you and nothingtorments prophetic prophets,
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prophetic company believers.
When God goes silent and youcan't hear Him, you can't feel
Him.
But out of that cave ofloneliness you're not there by
feelings, you're not there whatyou can see, you're there for
what can be imparted to you.
Because that impartation, thatrevelation would enable you to
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come out of that winter season,that cave of loneliness, and
help you, prep you for theseason that you get ready to
spring for it, you get ready tocome alive.
So that cave of loneliness,that winter season, is necessary
for you to spring for it.
So when you're spring for it,everything in your life God
begins to expedite, he begins tobring it to pass.
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All of a sudden, everything youtouch is a mightest touch.
Everything in your life beginsto change so fast, so rapidly.
Take advantage of those winterseasons, those winter moments.
It's less distraction, it'sless noise, less aggravation.
Take advantage of it.
You'll be amazed once you learnfrom the word of God.
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You will be amazed how thisbook comes alive, cause a letter
kill it, but the spirit of Godbrings this letter alive.
So when you read it, you becomepart of whatever author that
wrote that book.
You see it through their eyesand then you see it through your
own eyes because you'reapplying yourself in that story.
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You're applying yourself in themiddle of that battle.
You're applying yourself in themiddle of that mountaintop
experience.
We're talking about how toovercome loneliness while
seeking God.
Refocus, refocus.
Your focus is the mostimportant part in the winter
seasons and the cave ofloneliness.
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You have to stay focused.
Stay centered on what you aretrying to accomplish your goals
that you've already set yourdestination, that's waiting for
your arrival.
All that you learn how toovercome God, how to overcome
loneliness while seeking God.
When you overcome it, thenyou're able to teach someone
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else.
You know what I went throughthat grief, I went through that
death.
I went through that suffering,I went through that isolation.
This is what I learned from.
This is the attitude I had tohave.
This is what I did.
This is the attitude thathelped you get through your
winter season.
You can't go around it, youcan't escape it, but you can
learn, because someone else'sexperience in the winter season
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now is points and nuggets foryou to grab a hold and grab a
take to, and then, when you faceit, oh, count it all joy, cause
all things work together forthe good of it.
There was a little one callgoing to his purpose.
Listen, before this broadcastcomes to an end, I'm gonna stop
right now and let you know Atany given time you want to.
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You can receive a miracle.
You don't have to wait untilthe broadcast ends to receive a
breakthrough in America, rightwhere you are in your homes,
wherever you're watching,wherever device you're watching
us right now, you can receive amiracle right now by me looking
the lens to this camera.
There's no distance in prayers.
What you've been going through,the loneliness you've been
fighting, the uncertainties ofyour life, seeing the loneliness
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seasons where there'suncertainty but there's times of
refreshing oars, and theloneliness season, the cave of
loneliness.
It's unbearable.
At times you feel like you'reat a death period in your life.
No one's around you but you andGod.
That is that moment that hedownloads revelation, revelation
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, revelation to you.
That's when you become a pen ofa ready writer.
Everything you learn in life.
You become the pen of your ownlife.
When you begin to write it.
You begin to document yoursuccess.
When you document, you come toawareness and realization.
This winter is not here todestroy me.
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This winter is to help me.
This winter is not to destroymy faith, is to teach me how to
lean on the arm ever less thearms of God.
It's teaching me how to takehim at his word, how to be
trustworthy to his word, how toworship.
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Even when I don't feel thispresence, even I can't see him
in the cave of loneliness, Ihave a knowing down the inside.
All things work together forthe good.
So, therefore, I'm going tomake choice, as though I've
already began my spring seasongoing forward.
So, whatever you going throughtoday we love it.
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I want to encourage you.
It's not too late to call uponthe name of the Lord.
It's never too late for God todo a miracle.
It's never too late for God tomove the dead great close off of
your life and call you forth,like you did in Lashris.
It's not too late.
You find yourself at whatevertree, you're setting on in your
field, depressed, discouraged.
You're setting down and you'relonely.
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All you got to do is realizeyou shall never leave.
You know, for a second, rise upfrom that place of desolation.
Dust that garment off, becauserevelation is coming to you now.
Take advantage of that winterseason because that season
teaches you like no other seasonin your life.
It will help develop you incharacter or at least a fresher
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or a day in your life.
It will allow you to see Christexactly who he is.
Because it's that moment andtime in your life and ministry,
your business, that distractionsare not there.
There's no.
In other words, no frustration,no aggravation.
My mind is centered, I'mfocused.
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So if I'm focused then God cando what he says.
Throughout the entire Bible,examples of one by one facing
some type of cave of loneliness,even David and the cave of
Becca, running for his very ownlife, running from King Saul,
he's been hunted like a preyfrom the predator.
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He finds himself in the cave ofa doll.
These caves representloneliness, oscillation, weeping
, being broken, misunderstood.
Quite can't quite puteverything together, you can't
see the whole picture.
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But in that loneliness seasonis where God becomes more really
in your life than any otherseason.
It's that moment that arevelation you have of him.
You'll say, like Peter, did youwant to say you're Jeremiah's
Elijah?
No, who do you say he is?
Peter said you're the Christ,the Son of living God.
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Why?
Because that season ofloneliness while seeking God,
you're going to overcome it, Iguarantee you.
If you'll keep your focus,center your attention on God's
word, his praises unto his name,you'll find yourself in the
middle of that winter.
You'll be a pin of a readywriter and every time you go
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through something you'll writeit down.
You'll jot it down Lifeexperience.
Day one, day two.
I become the pin of my own lifeand then, at the end of it, I
realize all that I had tojourney through, go through.
Now I can see where I havegrown, developed and wisdom,
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knowledge and faith in the Lord,jesus Christ.
So are you ready to be a pin ofready writer, a pin of your own
life, overcoming lonelinesswhile seeking God?
God's answer to loneliness isin his word, his voice, his
presence.
Father, I thank you right nowfor everyone who's come to a
close of this broadcast today,lord.
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I stand my hands towards thelimitless camera.
I thank you right now, lord.
There's no distance in prayer.
You're the same yesterday,today and forevermore.
That's nothing you cannot do.
You're the God who counts asthe plans of the end and you
bring forth your plans.
Now, rise in their lives andlet them know the best is yet to
come.
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This is Prophet Jerusalem.
Welcome to the United Faith TVprogram.
Today our subject is dealingwith a very area that we often
find ourselves there how toovercome loneliness while
seeking God.
What is God's answer toloneliness?
Well, I'm gonna minister thisteaching to you loneliness how
(00:25):
does it benefit you?
Because many times lonelinessbrings you to a place where
you're more focused, you're morecentered, or where you want to
go your destination.
Often, in the busy streams oflife, we get so distracted and
that distraction, often time,calls us to get off track and
God's got to bring us alwaysback with.
(00:46):
We got onto an exit and nowhe's gonna bring us all the way
back to full circle again.
So I wanna teach to you how toovercome loneliness while
seeking God, because even Adamwanted somebody in his life.
So God put Adam to sleep,pulled a, ribbed out and created
Eve.
Well, he was in the state thathe, you know, longing as
(01:11):
relationships, seeking outrelationship.
That's why this ministry iscalled Cutshred Revivals,
because it's a family ministry.
When I talk about family, Italk about you and I I pastor, I
leader, I staff, I partneraround the world.
We make up a big family as awhole.
Now imagine one could put 1,000flights, two could put 10,000
(01:34):
flights.
So, together, as we march andwe raise that standard, imagine
what we can do together for theglory of God.
So thank you again for joiningus today.
We're talking about overcomingloneliness while seeking God,
and then we're gonna talk aboutGod's answer to loneliness, and
(01:56):
much more in this broadcast tohelp you develop you in your
spiritual walk with God.
Have that keen rebuttoryinsight into your tomorrow,
because your tomorrow is betterthan your today.
Your tomorrow is brighter.
Your tomorrow is the heavensgoing to open over your life.
Your tomorrow is better thanwhat you see yourself right now.
(02:18):
All right, how to overcomeloneliness?
Great is he that's in us and hethat's in the world.
Well, we end this world, butwe're not of this world.
But every day there's life'schallenges, there's
circumstances that we often gothrough, there's life battles
that we often face, and there'smany times we don't have answers
(02:38):
to our own questions.
But you can find reinsurance inGod that blesses the assurance
that Jesus is mine.
Oh, what a full taste of glory.
Divine Heirs of salvation,purchased with his love, by his
blood, am I redeemed of God?
So, as followers of Jesus, aspart of God's kingdom of priests
(03:00):
.
We need to understand what rolewe play in the kingdom.
How does loneliness benefit usand how does the enemy use
loneliness?
First, peter, chapter 2,.
Peter begins to write you are achosen people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, god'sspecial possession.
(03:20):
That you may declare thepraises of Him who will call you
out of darkness to Hismarvelous, wonderful light.
What we do understand, peter,is saying you are chosen.
So when you are chosen, you cansee loneliness as a place where
God develops your walk.
(03:42):
Loneliness, let's deal with it.
How to overcome loneliness?
Let me give you the keys today.
Number one you have to sendyour attention on what you
believe.
Loneliness comes to be ateacher to you, because now you
don't have that support systemof another individual.
(04:03):
So now you find yourself inthis isolated place.
But out of isolation comesrevelation.
In this isolation we begin tolearn.
What season are we in?
Well, loneliness comes in yourwinter season, not your summer
season, not your spring seasonor your autumn season.
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It comes in your winter season.
Winter develops you more thanany other season you ever walk
through.
You learn to how to overcome bydiscerning, paying attention to
what season you're in.
So, first and foremost, in thewinter season you identify who
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you have become in the Lordthrough all the season up to
that winter season.
Now it becomes a vivid image toyou, a painted canvas that you
note.
This is winter season.
You become the habitation ofGod.
You inhabit the praises of us.
But in other words, now thatwe're in this winter season, we
got to approach it with amindset where we're going to
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refocus.
We know that winter does this.
It's a lonely period in one'slife.
Loneliness comes in the winterseason.
Well, winter also teaches youhow to overcome loneliness while
seeking God.
Number one, what do you do?
You have to understand how toovercome it first.
You overcome it by having yourfocus.
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You overcome by staying on theword.
You overcome it by believingwhat you already heard God speak
to you while you're in yourwinter season.
Because in winter seasoneverything in your life is going
to slow down.
It's going to feel like thedays are so long and the nights
are still so short.
And in that long process,throughout that whole entire day
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, entire weeks and months,you're going to find yourself in
that winter season Weary,fatigue.
But out of that lonelinesscomes revelation.
We always think, you know, weget the revelation on the
mountain, and that's not true.
Majority of revelation comesand there's quiet places, there
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are quiet moments of your life.
There are places where youdon't have distractions.
There are places where youdon't have distractions
family-line distractions, a jobyou know you've got your focus
right there, full, dedicate, tofind out what is the purpose of
me coming out of this winter.
What is the purpose for mecoming out of this cave, this
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test?
Well, the winter season willteach you how to overcome
because it's going to cause youto be in a place where you have
to be still.
It's going to teach you thatyou can't be impatient and
frantic and a hurry.
It's going to teach you how torely on the word of God.
It's going to teach you how tobe still.
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Psalm 23, he teaches us he liesto the side, still waters.
Well, he would teach in Davidthat he's the shepherd of his
life, but also he would build agiant inside of him.
He would build a giant slayerinside of him.
So you had to teach David.
There are times in your walk,your ministry, your life, your
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business what are the cases maybe, that loneliness somewhere of
another is going to come.
How do you approach loneliness.
How do you accept loneliness?
You approach loneliness.
You accept loneliness by sayingyou know what?
I can't rush this season.
Let this winter season developme to overcome loneliness while
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I'm seeking God.
I'm gonna take advantage thatall the distractions are out of
the way.
I'm not gonna be in a hurry,I'm not gonna be impatient, I'm
gonna wait upon the Lord becauseI realize waiting, I am
mountain with new strength thatI never harnessed before.
So now, here you are.
Psalm 23 to Psalmist David saidhe lies me beside still waters.
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Because now the next thing istaking place.
I'm being refocused, I'm not ina hurry.
I'm gonna take advantage ofloneliness and develop character
, increase the anointing on mylife, find the principle of
faith that I've neverexperienced thus far.
Until that time, I'm gonna takethis winter season that
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identify the lonelinessappearance in my life.
But then I'm gonna take thisloneliness.
Let it be a cave that teach mewhat a platform will not teach
me.
Do you realize the cave ofloneliness will teach you what a
platform will not, because in aplatform you're always attended
to everybody else's needs.
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A platform you're alwaysaddressing every other problem
in everybody else's life.
But the cave of loneliness, itspeaks to you to your situation,
it speaks to your surrounding.
It becomes a cave where yourealize you can't get around
this.
But now I can learn from this.
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I can allow this experience tobring revelation to me.
So, number two the cave ofloneliness.
How'd ever come lonelinesswhile seeking God?
Number two God's voice becomesclear in your life.
God's voice is more clear.
You're hitting bullseye.
More accuracy in your propheticgift, you're a waltz with God.
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So you start hearing,identifying the voice a little
more clear, because now youdon't have the busy streams,
waters running around you.
You realize that opportunity isknocking at the doors and God's
gonna do what he says.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'mso glad that you're joining us
on a Night in Faith TV program.
This is Prof Trisha Allen Cook.
Listen, I want to stop just amoment right now to remind you.
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We want you to be able to goahead and have an opportunity.
We're going to teach you aboutthe gifts of the Spirit, the
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flow, the functions.
We're going to teach you aboutwhat the gifts are, what the
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We're going to teach you how tohave those gifts operating your
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In other words, in themarketplaces.
Wherever you go, you can havethose gifts operating your life.
So that would be in our newyear, 2024, as well.
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So we do not want you to missthe opportunity to be educated
into the deeper things of theprophetic.
Well, I'm so glad to be able toteach this to you.
How do I ever come low on thiswhile seeking God?
Well, how do you do it, prof?
Well, I'm glad you asked thatquestion.
How did I ever come low on this?
That was a period, early 90s,where I was isolated from
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everyone and during that time Ikept myself into a place of
worship, praise, even though Ididn't understand that season.
That winter season felt likedeath.
It felt like the isolation wasovercoming me like a garment of
heaviness.
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But then I learned from theisolation messages, books,
ministry, the future, where Iwas going.
It all took that lonelinesswhile seeking God.
How to overcome it.
While seeking God, I had tolearn that the Elijah syndrome.
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I'm not in this by myself.
God has 7,000 more that havenot been.
Their need to the cave ofloneliness, to the precious of
life, to the principalities ofthe world.
So I understand it and Ianalyze it came to a reality.
Okay, I'm not the only onegoing through something.
I'm not the only one that'sisolated for a purpose.
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I'm not the only one that Godseparated unto himself.
Then I began to understand why Ihad to go through that winter
season of loneliness, how toovercome it.
I overcame it by focusing.
I overcame it by reading theword of God, worship and praise
and nonstop being attentive andserving.
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I learned that the ingredientsto unlock the miraculous came
out of my loneliness season.
All the books that we wrotecame out of that season of
loneliness.
The revelation, the message youget came out of that place,
that place of back and thatplace of brokenness, that place
of loneliness, that place whereyou don't want to identify with
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it because you don't want towalk through it, but it's
necessary for your developmentand character, your growth and
wisdom and knowledge, and inintensify your faith, to believe
the report of God.
Oh, my God, loneliness.
Elijah had to learn how toovercome loneliness because he
had that mentality.
I'm the only one.
No, no, no, no, no.
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There's 7,000 more that respondback to Elijah.
You're not the only prophet,you're not the only person,
you're not the only individual.
There's 7,000 more that aregoing through the front of some
affliction.
There's 7,000 more that backsup against the wall.
There's 7,000 more that feellike they want to quit.
There's 7,000 more.
While you succumbing anddepression discourage men and
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loneliness, I've got 7,000 morethat have not bent their knees
to the powers of error.
So that allowed Elijah to sayyou know what?
Let me get up out of here andprophesy it again.
Let me get on my feet andprophesy it.
The ravens came to feed them.
Then God sent it down toZarephia, to a widow woman, to
spare her son, to bringprosperity to her home.
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See, everything you go throughbrings a miracle behind it.
Everything you encounter bringsa breakthrough behind it.
Everything you need God to be,it's in place of where you have
to be still and let God be God.
Once you allow God to be God,then he'll prove himself in
salvation.
He'll prove himself indeliverance.
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Stand still and see thesalvation of the Lord.
Watch God's deliverance.
Whatever your Red Sea is today,whatever your face, whatever
armies of the enemies, that'snot been at your heels, god will
make a way and an exit out ofit.
All you gotta do is follow thevoice of the Lord and exit out
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and go into the interest way ofGod's blessings and God's divine
favor.
So we're talking today how toovercome loneliness while
seeking God.
God's answer to loneliness is inhis presence, psalm 91, in the
shadow of the Almighty God, heis carrying me into his
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provision, his blessings.
So Psalm 91 is God's answer toloneliness.
He begins to tell you I'llnever forsake you, I'll never
leave you, I'll never abandonyou.
That's God's guarantee.
His presence gives you Hisguarantee that you'll overcome
the winter season and you'll bea better Christian, a better
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ministry, a better businessperson.
Why?
Because winter teaches you I'vegot to lean on God, I've got to
lean on the arm of God, I'vegot to trust ship.
Because I cannot rush thisseason.
This season is billing me, thisseason is preparing my
character, this season isproducing the anointing.
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And out of that you may feellike I don't want to go through
loneliness.
I don't want to go through thatcave of loneliness.
No one does, but one thing Goddoes do.
There are times in the season inyour life if you have not
learned this by the Lord in aprophetic ministry, he will go
silent on you and nothingtorments prophetic prophets,
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prophetic company believers.
When God goes silent and youcan't hear Him, you can't feel
Him.
But out of that cave ofloneliness you're not there by
feelings, you're not there whatyou can see, you're there for
what can be imparted to you.
Because that impartation, thatrevelation would enable you to
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come out of that winter season,that cave of loneliness, and
help you, prep you for theseason that you get ready to
spring for it, you get ready tocome alive.
So that cave of loneliness,that winter season, is necessary
for you to spring for it.
So when you're spring for it,everything in your life God
begins to expedite, he begins tobring it to pass.
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All of a sudden, everything youtouch is a mightest touch.
Everything in your life beginsto change so fast, so rapidly.
Take advantage of those winterseasons, those winter moments.
It's less distraction, it'sless noise, less aggravation.
Take advantage of it.
You'll be amazed once you learnfrom the word of God.
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You will be amazed how thisbook comes alive, cause a letter
kill it, but the spirit of Godbrings this letter alive.
So when you read it, you becomepart of whatever author that
wrote that book.
You see it through their eyesand then you see it through your
own eyes because you'reapplying yourself in that story.
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You're applying yourself in themiddle of that battle.
You're applying yourself in themiddle of that mountaintop
experience.
We're talking about how toovercome loneliness while
seeking God.
Refocus, refocus.
Your focus is the mostimportant part in the winter
seasons and the cave ofloneliness.
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You have to stay focused.
Stay centered on what you aretrying to accomplish your goals
that you've already set yourdestination, that's waiting for
your arrival.
All that you learn how toovercome God, how to overcome
loneliness while seeking God.
When you overcome it, thenyou're able to teach someone
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else.
You know what I went throughthat grief, I went through that
death.
I went through that suffering,I went through that isolation.
This is what I learned from.
This is the attitude I had tohave.
This is what I did.
This is the attitude thathelped you get through your
winter season.
You can't go around it, youcan't escape it, but you can
learn, because someone else'sexperience in the winter season
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now is points and nuggets foryou to grab a hold and grab a
take to, and then, when you faceit, oh, count it all joy, cause
all things work together forthe good of it.
There was a little one callgoing to his purpose.
Listen, before this broadcastcomes to an end, I'm gonna stop
right now and let you know Atany given time you want to.
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You can receive a miracle.
You don't have to wait untilthe broadcast ends to receive a
breakthrough in America, rightwhere you are in your homes,
wherever you're watching,wherever device you're watching
us right now, you can receive amiracle right now by me looking
the lens to this camera.
There's no distance in prayers.
What you've been going through,the loneliness you've been
fighting, the uncertainties ofyour life, seeing the loneliness
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seasons where there'suncertainty but there's times of
refreshing oars, and theloneliness season, the cave of
loneliness.
It's unbearable.
At times you feel like you'reat a death period in your life.
No one's around you but you andGod.
That is that moment that hedownloads revelation, revelation
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, revelation to you.
That's when you become a pen ofa ready writer.
Everything you learn in life.
You become the pen of your ownlife.
When you begin to write it.
You begin to document yoursuccess.
When you document, you come toawareness and realization.
This winter is not here todestroy me.
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This winter is to help me.
This winter is not to destroymy faith, is to teach me how to
lean on the arm ever less thearms of God.
It's teaching me how to takehim at his word, how to be
trustworthy to his word, how toworship.
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Even when I don't feel thispresence, even I can't see him
in the cave of loneliness, Ihave a knowing down the inside.
All things work together forthe good.
So, therefore, I'm going tomake choice, as though I've
already began my spring seasongoing forward.
So, whatever you going throughtoday we love it.
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I want to encourage you.
It's not too late to call uponthe name of the Lord.
It's never too late for God todo a miracle.
It's never too late for God tomove the dead great close off of
your life and call you forth,like you did in Lashris.
It's not too late.
You find yourself at whatevertree, you're setting on in your
field, depressed, discouraged.
You're setting down and you'relonely.
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All you got to do is realizeyou shall never leave.
You know, for a second, rise upfrom that place of desolation.
Dust that garment off, becauserevelation is coming to you now.
Take advantage of that winterseason because that season
teaches you like no other seasonin your life.
It will help develop you incharacter or at least a fresher
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or a day in your life.
It will allow you to see Christexactly who he is.
Because it's that moment andtime in your life and ministry,
your business, that distractionsare not there.
There's no.
In other words, no frustration,no aggravation.
My mind is centered, I'mfocused.
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So if I'm focused then God cando what he says.
Throughout the entire Bible,examples of one by one facing
some type of cave of loneliness,even David and the cave of
Becca, running for his very ownlife, running from King Saul,
he's been hunted like a preyfrom the predator.
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He finds himself in the cave ofa doll.
These caves representloneliness, oscillation, weeping
, being broken, misunderstood.
Quite can't quite puteverything together, you can't
see the whole picture.
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But in that loneliness seasonis where God becomes more really
in your life than any otherseason.
It's that moment that arevelation you have of him.
You'll say, like Peter, did youwant to say you're Jeremiah's
Elijah?
No, who do you say he is?
Peter said you're the Christ,the Son of living God.
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Why?
Because that season ofloneliness while seeking God,
you're going to overcome it, Iguarantee you.
If you'll keep your focus,center your attention on God's
word, his praises unto his name,you'll find yourself in the
middle of that winter.
You'll be a pin of a readywriter and every time you go
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through something you'll writeit down.
You'll jot it down Lifeexperience.
Day one, day two.
I become the pin of my own lifeand then, at the end of it, I
realize all that I had tojourney through, go through.
Now I can see where I havegrown, developed and wisdom,
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knowledge and faith in the Lord,jesus Christ.
So are you ready to be a pin ofready writer, a pin of your own
life, overcoming lonelinesswhile seeking God?
God's answer to loneliness isin his word, his voice, his
presence.
Father, I thank you right nowfor everyone who's come to a
close of this broadcast today,lord.
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I stand my hands towards thelimitless camera.
I thank you right now, lord.
There's no distance in prayer.
You're the same yesterday,today and forevermore.
That's nothing you cannot do.
You're the God who counts asthe plans of the end and you
bring forth your plans.
Now, rise in their lives andlet them know the best is yet to
come.
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