You're going to. In touch, the teaching ministry in touch, when we are

reaching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Next on in touch, when we are lonely.

God does not desire that you not be lonely, but rather that you and I have friends and that we be a friend and most of all that Jesus Christ is our friend above all of the friends all the

way from the beginning of time God has desired that you and I live in fellowship

and companionship and intimacy with him and with those about us.

In fact, if you'll go back to the very first book of the Bible and you'll recall in

Genesis chapter one, the Bible says that when he created us he created us the

scripture says that God said in our image according to our likeness. Now what was

that? It was certainly not a physical likeness but rather an intellectual

likeness and emotional likeness that is so that you and I could fellowship have

companionship and so that you and I could dwell in intimacy that is an intimate

relationship with our Heavenly Father through his son Jesus Christ. That is the

will of the Father. It has always been his will. And when you and I look around

us today, we see people who are so very, very lonely. We wonder oftentimes why they're lonely.

Well there's some very specific reasons for that,

and that's what I want to talk about in this message in title,

the source of our strength when we are lonely.

And I want you to turn, if you to Hebrew chapter 13 and I want us to read simply a part of a single verse in Hebrew

chapter 13 and verse 5 you'll recall that in this passage beginning in the

first verse this passage is about relationships for example he talks about

loving the brethren and not neglecting strangers and entertaining them and remembering the prisoners and speaking of marriage and so forth.

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