Most Asked Questions: How should I handle seasons of loneliness?

Set Apart Podcast

Leslie Ludy

Religion, Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 955 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series by offering key Biblical truths for seasons of loneliness. Loneliness is not God’s lifelong design for us, but seasons of loneliness are a necessary part of following the narrow way of the Cross. As Leslie reminds us in this episode, instead of seeing loneliness as a problem that needs to be avoided at all costs, we can choose to embrace it as an opportunity to grow closer to Christ than we ever thought possible. We do not serve a distant God who can’t relate to our struggles or meet our deepest needs, but the perfect fulfillment of every longing within our heart, even in seasons of loneliness.

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0:00.0	I amelle
0:09.0	I am Leslie Woody, host of the Set-A-Part Podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages. We're in the set-apart podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages. We're in the
0:14.7	midst of our most-ask question series and one question that I think so many of us
0:19.0	have struggled with either currently or in previous seasons, how do we handle loneliness in a biblical way,
0:25.2	in a way that brings hope and perspective for the future.
0:28.0	So we're going to dive into that in today's episode.
0:30.8	Before we jump in, I wanted to let you know you can register for our 2025
0:34.8	Set-A-Part conference, which is happening in early June of next year, and this is the best
0:38.8	time to register because we have our super early bird discount. It's always a really special weekend of women of
0:44.6	all ages gathering to pursue Jesus together. Also we have a new online store which
0:49.6	is shop dot set apart.org so if you are not yet a subscriber to our Set Apart magazine
0:54.4	and you'd like to look at all the other resources that we have to just enhance your
0:57.9	relationship with Christ, go to shop dot set apart.org and you can look at all the
1:02.1	different resources that we have for you there.
1:04.4	Let's dive into handling seasons of loneliness.
1:07.9	I remember a season, I've gone through many seasons of loneliness, but I remember a really specific time when
1:14.4	loneliness just seemed so overwhelming in my life and it was a time when Eric and I
1:21.6	had really walked through a lot of rejection and hurt from people close to us,
1:27.0	people that we had prayed for, invested into,
1:30.0	Discipled, minister to, for whatever reason, the enemy just kind of got into those relationships,
1:36.0	and a lot of them sort of either falsely accused us or abandon us or rejected us or just kind of disregarded us and we kind of felt like nobody really wanted to hear what we had to say.
1:49.0	Nobody really valued the ministry we were doing and we felt really uncertain about where God was even
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