All those who are lost are characterized by loneliness, even if they live alone
or among the lost. The prince of this world does everything to direct their
thoughts and interest away from their true mental state and offers a variety of
entertainment and hobbies, for everyone according to their own preferences.
Yet every person feels deep down that something essential is missing from them!
The real lack is that they are without a living connection with their Creator!
When I was 3 years old, I came to the so-called 'child faith', when my devout believing mother led me to know the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. My parents divorced when I was 4 and at 5 I was placed under my father's guardianship, in answer to my secret prayer. He had remarried and no longer believed in the Savior as in his youth. Neither does my stepmother.
The years passed and since I didn't have a single truly believing friend, year by year I began to distance myself from the living faith. All that remained was the evening prayer and the Lord's prayer in the morning. Fortunately, at the age of 12, I met my Creator again, when I first decided in prayer to start following him in my life. He spoke to me with a promise from the verses of Isaiah 40:30-31.
He said to me when I was alone at home: >>You get the power. You lift up your wings like eagles. You run and you don't get tired. You will walk and not get tired.<< So I heard his voice and then I became aware that he really exists and that he follows people's thoughts and he is able to talk to us if he wants to. So also for you, if you're looking from all your heart for him!
I asked him to remind me of my promise when I move from my father's home to my own apartment and workplace. He was Faithful! He reminded me in the spring, when I was in the last year of a 3-year Technical School (HTOL) and lovingly invited me to fulfill the promise I had made 10 years before. His love and faithfulness brought me to tears. He is truly Love!
The 10 years in between were really difficult and lonely years, even though I first attended a 4-year engineering school and lived with three others my age in a boarding school. During my studies at HTOL, I also lived with two of my classmates in the same large rented apartment. Still, I felt a deep loneliness. Similarly, I experienced loneliness when I was in the army for 11 months.
Even though for those consecutive years I lived and stayed among other youths and young men of my age, I felt that neither I nor they had a connection of soul or spirit. They were really nice and honest guys, but they weren't interested in religious matters at all. All my siblings were otherwise normal, except that they weren't interested in religious matters either.
Connection with other believers
I also received this as an answer to my prayer, because I clearly understood while reading the Bible how important it is to walk in connection with other true believers. I was introduced to young Christians in Helsinki and together we proclaimed the gospel on the streets and went on evangelistic trips to some towns in Finland. We were together every day!
I got to know a young man from Stockholm who had come to Finland to evangelize, and he asked me to proclaim the gospel on the streets of Helsinki with him. His was a Messianic Jew named Jov Judah. He guided me to know that the true name of our Savior is Yeshua HaMashiach. It took years to grasp the meaning of that truth. It took even 7 years.
Proclaiming the gospel in the streets often late at night, we were able to see huge supernatural miracles and clear guidance of the Holy Spirit. That happened in the early 1970s, 1972-73. Jov moved away and 7 years passed. Then the Holy Spirit led me to PEK (Europe's Conferens of The Holy Spirit) organized in Helsinki in 1980. I adapted my summer vacation for that.
At that time I was member in Finland's largest Pentecostal congregation, Helsinki Saalem, and was a one of the tent group during that PEK. Then, on a free day, I walked to Esplanadi park in Helsinki, where a podium had been set up for the performers. Just then, two cheerful middle-aged Jewish couples from Hungary started singing there. They were Pentecostals.
I quieted down to listen to them and they sang a familiar, beautiful Christian song in Finnish, in which they used our Savior's Hebrew proper name, Yeshua HaMashiach. It reminded me of a Messianic Jew I met 7 years earlier, Jov Judah, who had told me one evening that the true name of our Savior is Yeshua HaMashiach. The Holy Spirit reminded me again of that.
Then that truth was permanently imprinted inside me, because having read a lot of the Bible, I understood that Hebrew proper names have a very important meaning according to the Bible in the spiritual dimension, where we wage a spiritual war against the spirits of darkness! When Adonai Yeshua taught his disciples in verses Mark 16:17-18, he referred to his Hebrew name!
>>17 These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.<<
I got to know a young man from Stockholm who had come to Finland to evangelize, and he asked me to proclaim the gospel on the streets of Helsinki with him. His was a Messianic Jew named Jov Judah. He guided me to know that the true name of our Savior is Yeshua HaMashiach. It took years to grasp the meaning of that truth. It took even 7 years.
Proclaiming the gospel in the streets often late at night, we were able to see huge supernatural miracles and clear guidance of the Holy Spirit. That happened in the early 1970s, 1972-73. Jov moved away and 7 years passed. Then the Holy Spirit led me to PEK (Europe's Conferens of The Holy Spirit) organized in Helsinki in 1980. I adapted my summer vacation for that.
At that time I was member in Finland's largest Pentecostal congregation, Helsinki Saalem, and was a one of the tent group during that PEK. Then, on a free day, I walked to Esplanadi park in Helsinki, where a podium had been set up for the performers. Just then, two cheerful middle-aged Jewish couples from Hungary started singing there. They were Pentecostals.
I quieted down to listen to them and they sang a familiar, beautiful Christian song in Finnish, in which they used our Savior's Hebrew proper name, Yeshua HaMashiach. It reminded me of a Messianic Jew I met 7 years earlier, Jov Judah, who had told me one evening that the true name of our Savior is Yeshua HaMashiach. The Holy Spirit reminded me again of that.
Then that truth was permanently imprinted inside me, because having read a lot of the Bible, I understood that Hebrew proper names have a very important meaning according to the Bible in the spiritual dimension, where we wage a spiritual war against the spirits of darkness! When Adonai Yeshua taught his disciples in verses Mark 16:17-18, he referred to his Hebrew name!
>>17 These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.<<
I gradually learned to be careful
I noticed that the Devil had gained a foothold to some extent in all the churches and Christian revival movements that I visited and got to know. I once fell into a deep spiritual crisis, from which I was finally delivered by an angel sent by Adonai Yeshua. He was the answer to my great distress and prays. On four evenings I had prayed with the new tongues for the help from above.
As a result, that mighty angel came to me from the top of a shining cloud and advised me how to get out of the mental chains I had unknowingly fallen into. It meant leaving that congregation and he led me to Sweden for years, during which time I gradually recovered and grew stronger in faith and trust in my Creator and the promises of his Holy Word.
I noticed that the Devil had gained a foothold to some extent in all the churches and Christian revival movements that I visited and got to know. I once fell into a deep spiritual crisis, from which I was finally delivered by an angel sent by Adonai Yeshua. He was the answer to my great distress and prays. On four evenings I had prayed with the new tongues for the help from above.
As a result, that mighty angel came to me from the top of a shining cloud and advised me how to get out of the mental chains I had unknowingly fallen into. It meant leaving that congregation and he led me to Sweden for years, during which time I gradually recovered and grew stronger in faith and trust in my Creator and the promises of his Holy Word.
Although the fellowship of believers is important, it is more important to cherish pure doctrine and be uncompromising in the life of sanctification, and to be doers of the Word, that is, to implement it in our lives, and not to be just hearers of it as many who are in numerous churches, but they do not do according to what the Bible commands ! Adonai Yeshua taught: Matt. 7:21
>>"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven - only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven".<<
>>"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven - only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven".<<
Our Creator demands absolute obedience from us
As long as we want to decide for ourselves everything we want and what we strive for according to the conditions offered by this world, we are walking away from our Creator. Instead, we should primarily seek a living connection with our Creator by praying and reading the Bible and meditating on its content. We should completely abandon our worldly dreams and aspirations.
We must learn by practice what our Saviour's words mean: Luke 9:23-25
>>23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?<<
This process of choosing the right things and letting go of the wrong takes its own time, and our Creator is patiently waiting for us to give up our own plans and choose the much better plans he planned for us even before the creation of the world, and we begin to implement them in our lives with the guidance of His Holy Spirit and His Word. This leads us from solitude to his communion!
Then you are no longer lonely, even if you live alone
I know that Adonai Yeshua lives in me through the Holy Spirit and in the same Spirit my heavenly Father Yehowah Elohim has also come to live in me. Since I have faith in this, I no longer need a constant emotional experience of it like I did when I was a younger believer. Yet I often experience the presence of them three almost daily, when I pray with the new tongues.
Ask Adonai Yeshua into your heart and strive for obedience to his teachings, and you will no longer experience bottomless loneliness, even if you live alone! Don't be discouraged, even if you are disappointed with other believers and congregations, but keep searching for a living connection with your Creator until you really know you have found it! Isaiah 57:15 and John 5:24 and 1 John 5:13
Isaiah 57:15 >>For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.<<
John 5:24 >>"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life".<< This is how Adonai Yeshua teaches and assures us even today!
1 John 5:13 >>I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of Elohim so that you may know that you have eternal life.<<
The name of the Son of Elohim is, as I already wrote above: Yeshua HaMashiach! Our Heavenly Father's holiest name is Yehowah. The Finnish star who has truly come to faith, Eija Merilä, sings a wonderful song of praise about that Name. Listen to that first song!
Songs suitable for the topic
Please, note: Our Savior's original name in Hebrew is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri
Please, note: Our Savior's original name in Hebrew is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri
Hallow the name
I Won't Let Go
Precious Lord Take My Hand
Morning has broken
Peace Like a River
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