Speaker 1
I don't know who I'm talking to right now, but you've been crying over being left out, over being forgotten, you think being alone is a curse.
Discover the power found in solitude and wilderness as God prepares and strengthens you for your divine purpose.
Key Takeaways
- Solitude is a sacred and powerful season for spiritual growth and preparation.
- God uses isolation to deepen intimacy and teach essential spiritual lessons.
- Periods of feeling forgotten or abandoned are often divine setups for future breakthroughs.
- Faith is proven and strengthened when one remains faithful in the wilderness.
- God’s presence and voice are most clearly heard in silence and solitude.
Summary
- Solitude is not a curse but a divine calling where God prepares individuals for their spiritual destiny.
- God uses wilderness and isolation to strip away distractions and mold the heart for obedience and faith.
- Biblical examples like Moses, Elijah, and Jesus illustrate the necessity of solitude before spiritual breakthroughs.
- Aloneness is an invitation to hear God's whisper and develop intimacy with Him in silence.
- The wilderness is a classroom where God teaches prayer, waiting, listening, and obedience.
- Periods of isolation are often misunderstood as abandonment but are times of preparation and growth.
- God clears the noise and distractions to reveal His presence and speak clearly.
- Faith is tested and strengthened in solitude, where encouragement and applause are absent.
- Some miracles and spiritual breakthroughs require dismissing doubters and being alone with God.
- The video encourages embracing solitude as a powerful season of transformation rather than a time of loss.
Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown
Speaker 1
No child of God being alone is a calling when God gets ready to put a mantle on a man, when he gets ready to birth power into a woman.
Speaker 1
He doesn't call them to a stage, he calls them into solitude, he calls them to the backside of a desert.
Speaker 1
And in that wilderness, in that stillness, he begins to whisper secrets that only the alone can hear, so don't despise the silence, it's sacred.
Speaker 1
Because when everyone walks out, that's when he walks in, and that's not weakness, that's power.
Speaker 1
Let me tell you something, church, before God ever uses a man, before he ever places a woman on the front lines of spiritual battle, before he annoints someone to speak his word with power or to stand against hell with unshakable faith, he sends them to a wilderness.
Speaker 1
You may think your wilderness is punishment, you may believe your isolation is the consequence of some mistake or failure.
Speaker 1
But let me tell you, aloneness is not abandonment, it is an invitation.
Speaker 1
God takes his chosen ones and removes them from the noise.
Speaker 1
He pulls them away from applause, away from distraction.
Speaker 1
Away from every voice but every.
Speaker 1
Why?
Speaker 1
Because the wilderness is classroom and aloneness is the first lesson.
Speaker 1
Look at Moses, he spent 40 years in Pharaoh's Paris, trained in the wisdom of Egypt.
Speaker 1
He had power, he had influence.
Speaker 1
But when God looked at him, he said, you're not ready yet.
Speaker 1
And where did God?
Speaker 1
Send him to the backside of a desert, to Midian.
Speaker 1
To solitude.
Speaker 1
He spent another 40 years tending sheep in silence before he ever heard God's voice from the burning bush.
Speaker 1
If that were you today, you'd call it failure, you'd say God has forgotten me.
Speaker 1
But no.
Speaker 1
God was preparing him.
Speaker 1
He was stripping away everything that was Egyptian.
Speaker 1
Everything that would interfere with divine purpose.
Speaker 1
You see.
Speaker 1
God is not interested in your talent, he's not impressed by your charisma.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He wants your heart.
Speaker 1
And he gets that heart when you're alone.
Speaker 1
When you have no platform to perform on.
Speaker 1
When there's no crowd to affirm you, when all the applause dies down and the only voice that remains is his.
Speaker 1
That's when he begins to mold you.
Speaker 1
That's when he teaches you how to pray, how to wait.
Speaker 1
How to listen, how to obey.
Speaker 1
Don't.
Speaker 1
Don't rush your wilderness.
Speaker 1
Don't.
Speaker 1
Don't despise the silence.
Speaker 1
The before.
Speaker 1
I will, I will allure and bring her into the wilderness.
Speaker 1
And so the rest speak tenderly.
Speaker 1
Hose.
Speaker 1
A 2:14, did you catch that?
Speaker 1
The.
Speaker 1
The wilderness is where he speaks tenderly, it's where intimacy is born.
Speaker 1
Not in.
Speaker 1
Not in the crowd, not, but in the hidden place, the quiet place.
Speaker 1
Think about Elijah.
Speaker 1
He called down fire from heaven in front of the nation.
Speaker 1
But the moment Jezebel threatened him, he ran into the wilderness.
Speaker 1
And they're alone under a Juniper tree, said, Lord, just let me die.
Speaker 1
But what did God?
Speaker 1
Do he?
Speaker 1
He sent an angel.
Speaker 1
He baked him.
Speaker 1
Bread.
Speaker 1
He gave him rest and they called him deep for 40 days into the mountain of God.
Speaker 1
Where Elijah stood in a cave and heard not the earthquake, not the wire, not the still small voice.
Speaker 1
If you're hearing nothing right now, it's not because God is silent.
Speaker 1
It's.
Speaker 1
It's because he's drawing you in closer.
Speaker 1
He's removing all the noise so you'll recognize the whisper.
Speaker 1
That still small voice is only heard in stillness.
Speaker 1
And that stillness.
Speaker 1
And that stillness is found in solitude.
Speaker 1
I want to speak.
Speaker 1
To some of you who feel forgotten.
Speaker 1
You've.
Speaker 1
You've been overlooked, abandoned, passed by.
Speaker 1
You've said, Lord, why am I in this season?
Speaker 1
Why?
Speaker 1
Why has everyone left?
Speaker 1
Why do I feel hidden, buried?
Speaker 1
Because that's.
Speaker 1
Because that's exactly what God does with seeds.
Speaker 1
He hides them.
Speaker 1
He buries them.
Speaker 1
But only for a season.
Speaker 1
Because.
Speaker 1
Hidden doesn't mean forgotten.
Speaker 1
It means he's getting ready for growth.
Speaker 1
Jesus.
Speaker 1
Jesus himself was led by the spirit into the wilderness.
Speaker 1
The son.
Speaker 1
The son of God, perfect, sinless, divine, had to go through solitude before stepping into ministry.
Speaker 1
He fasted.
Speaker 1
He fasted for 40 days.
Speaker 1
He wrestled.
Speaker 1
And when he win, he emerged.
Speaker 1
He returned in the power of the spirit.
Speaker 1
Friend, there's power waiting on the other side of your aloneness.
Speaker 1
But the power doesn't come until the breaking does.
Speaker 1
The.
Speaker 1
The authority doesn't come until the silence has done its work.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
Hear me, some of the most dangerous people in hell's eyes are the ones who have walked through wilderness and didn't curse God.
Speaker 1
Who.
Speaker 1
Who didn't give up.
Speaker 1
Who stayed when everyone else left, who let the same deeper into the arms of God.
Speaker 1
You might be in that place right now, you feel empty, dry.
Speaker 1
Hidden.
Speaker 1
Hidden.
Speaker 1
But the Lord says to you, this is not your end.
Speaker 1
This is your.
Speaker 1
This is your training ground, I'm teaching your hands to war.
Speaker 1
Your lips to pray, your heart to discern.
Speaker 1
I'm.
Speaker 1
I'm making you into someone who won't break when the battle comes.
Speaker 1
And the truth is, most people want the stage, but few want the wilderness.
Speaker 1
Most want the crown, but not the cave.
Speaker 1
But.
Speaker 1
But not you.
Speaker 1
You've been chosen.
Speaker 1
And that means you've also been set apart.
Speaker 1
Now stay there, don't run.
Speaker 1
Don't.
Speaker 1
Don't rush.
Speaker 1
Because the same God who led you in is the one who will lead you out.
Speaker 1
You may be.
Speaker 1
You may be looking around your life right now and saying, where is everybody?
Speaker 1
Where are the friends?
Speaker 1
Where is.
Speaker 1
Where is the support?
Speaker 1
Where is the help?
Speaker 1
And if.
Speaker 1
And if you're not careful, the enemy will whisper into that silence and say, you've been forsaken.
Speaker 1
You're all alone.
Speaker 1
You've been forgotten, but the devil is a liar.
Speaker 1
Because child of what feels like absence is often God making room for his presence.
Speaker 1
When people walk away, when the applause dies down, when the crowds thin out.
Speaker 1
That's not always a loss.
Speaker 1
Sometimes.
Speaker 1
Sometimes that's God clearing the stage so he can step into the scene.
Speaker 1
Many of.
Speaker 1
Many of us have been surrounded by noise for so long that we've begun to mistake movement for meaning.
Speaker 1
But let me.
Speaker 1
But let me tell you something, just because something is busy doesn't mean it's blessed.
Speaker 1
Just because you're surrounded doesn't mean you're supported.
Speaker 1
And sometimes.
Speaker 1
And sometimes the most loving thing God can do is remove you from every voice that's not his.
Speaker 1
Look in scripture.
Speaker 1
The pattern.
Speaker 1
The pattern is clear.
Speaker 1
When God was ready to speak clearly.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He removed the noise.
Speaker 1
He shut the door, he cleared the room.
Speaker 1
Remember when Jairus came to Jesus begging for his daughter's life?
Speaker 1
Jesus followed him to the house.
Speaker 1
But when he got.
Speaker 1
The place was full of mourners, weeping and wailing.
Speaker 1
They.
Speaker 1
They had already decided the girl was dead.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
And what did Jesus do?
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He put them all out.
Speaker 1
Every one of them.
Speaker 1
He cleared the room before the miracle.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
And hear me now, some miracles will not happen until God empties the room.
Speaker 1
Some.
Speaker 1
Some resurrections won't come until the doubters are dismissed, until the crowd is cleared.
Speaker 1
Until you are left alone with him.
Speaker 1
You think the people leaving your life is a tragedy.
Speaker 1
But it might just be a setup.
Speaker 1
You think.
Speaker 1
You think that relationship ending was lost.
Speaker 1
But maybe it was protection.
Speaker 1
Because.
Speaker 1
Because there are some things God will only say in private.
Speaker 1
There are some.
Speaker 1
There are some encounters he will only allow when the crowd is gone.
Speaker 1
There.
Speaker 1
There are depths of his heart that are only revealed in isolation.
Speaker 1
Go.
Speaker 1
Go back to the Garden of Gethsemane.
Speaker 1
Jesus.
Speaker 1
Jesus took his disciples with him.
Speaker 1
But he didn't take them all the way.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He left most of them at a distance.
Speaker 1
Then.
Speaker 1
Then he took Peter, James and John a little further.
Speaker 1
But even then had to leave them and go alone to pray.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He was crushed in solitude.
Speaker 1
He wept.
Speaker 1
He wept alone.
Speaker 1
He wrestled with the will of the Father while everyone else slept.
Speaker 1
Because.
Speaker 1
Because some crosses you have to carry without company.
Speaker 1
Some cups you have to drink without comfort.
Speaker 1
Why?
Speaker 1
Because.
Speaker 1
Because it's in that place where no one else is around that your faith is tested and proven.
Speaker 1
It's when.
Speaker 1
It's when the encouragement stops, when the compliments vanish, when the stage is empty and it's just you and God.
Speaker 1
That's when you find out what you're really made of.
Speaker 1
That's when your relationship with him stops being borrowed and becomes real.
Speaker 1
I'm speaking now to the one who's been looking for affirmation.
Speaker 1
To the one who scrolls through their phone, hoping for some sign that somebody sees them.
Speaker 1
Notices them.
Speaker 1
Needs them.
Speaker 1
But God is.
Speaker 1
But God is saying, I removed the crowd so I could draw close.
Speaker 1
I silenced every other voice so you could finally hear mine.
Speaker 1
Listen.
Speaker 1
Listen to Psalm 27:10, though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.
Speaker 1
That's not poetry.
Speaker 1
That's promise.
Speaker 1
God.
Speaker 1
God does not walk away when others do.
Speaker 1
He steps.
Speaker 1
He steps in, he draws near.
Speaker 1
He becomes.
Speaker 1
He becomes more than enough, that's why Jacob, when he was left alone at the river bank, wrestled with God and came out with a new name.
Speaker 1
Alone.
Speaker 1
That's.
Speaker 1
That's why Daniel, when he was thrown into the lion's den, didn't die.
Speaker 1
Didn't die, but met the presence of God in the pit.
Speaker 1
Alone.
Speaker 1
That's.
Speaker 1
That's why John, exiled, most cut off from every human connection, received the greatest revelation ever given to man.
Speaker 1
Alone.
Speaker 1
Don't you see it?
Speaker 1
When the people disappear, the presence shows up.
Speaker 1
God has called someone today to embrace the absence as his punishment.
Speaker 1
But as preparation.
Speaker 1
Not as.
Speaker 1
Not as rejection.
Speaker 1
But as redirection.
Speaker 1
Because.
Speaker 1
Because when you finally stop depending on people to affirm your identity.
Speaker 1
You can start hearing God call you by your true name.
Speaker 1
And I tell you.
Speaker 1
And I tell you now what God will do in the silence will carry you further than anything done in the spotlight.
Speaker 1
He is not.
Speaker 1
He is not just the God of crowds, he's the God of caves.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He is the God of quiet mornings, tear stained pillows and lonely nights.
Speaker 1
Where all you have is his word and somehow that's enough.
Speaker 1
So.
Speaker 1
So don't be afraid when people leave.
Speaker 1
Don't panic when you find yourself alone.
Speaker 1
Because when.
Speaker 1
Because when there's no one left to lean on.
Speaker 1
You finally.
Speaker 1
You finally learned how to stand.
Speaker 1
Solitude is not just a condition of the body.
Speaker 1
It's a condition of the soul.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
And when God leads you into solitude, he's not just pulling you away from people.
Speaker 1
He's pulling the mask off your heart.
Speaker 1
Because in the silence.
Speaker 1
Because in the silence, there's no one left to impress.
Speaker 1
In.
Speaker 1
In the stillness, there's nothing left to hide behind.
Speaker 1
You can't perform for an audience of one.
Speaker 1
You can't fake it when it's just you and the Lord.
Speaker 1
That's why some of us avoid being alone.
Speaker 1
Because we're afraid of what we'll find.
Speaker 1
We stay busy.
Speaker 1
We surround ourselves with people.
Speaker 1
We scroll through our phones, fill our schedules, chase noise.
Speaker 1
Because if we ever sat still long enough, if we ever got quiet before God, we'd have to face what's really inside.
Speaker 1
But God is.
Speaker 1
But God is after your heart, not the version you show the world.
Speaker 1
Not the words you say on Sunday, not the image you manage so carefully.
Speaker 1
No.
Speaker 1
No, he wants the real thing.
Speaker 1
And solitude has a way of bringing it to the surface.
Speaker 1
You see it in.
Speaker 1
Psalm 139.
Speaker 1
David cries out.
Speaker 1
Oh God, and know my heart.
Speaker 1
Test.
Speaker 1
Test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Speaker 1
That's.
Speaker 1
That's not a man surrounded by a crowd.
Speaker 1
That's the prayer of someone who's been alone long enough.
Speaker 1
To know he doesn't even trust his own motives anymore.
Speaker 1
He's.
Speaker 1
He's asking God to do the deep work because solitude has exposed the fact he can't do it himself.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
And that's what happens when you're alone with God.
Speaker 1
The layers start to peel back.
Speaker 1
The things you've buried for years come rising to the surface, that unforgiveness.
Speaker 1
That.
Speaker 1
That bitterness, that hidden lust, that pride you disguise as confidence.
Speaker 1
That fear.
Speaker 1
That fear you've hidden behind a mission.
Speaker 1
It all comes.
Speaker 1
It all comes out in the solitude.
Speaker 1
You.
Speaker 1
You can't lie to the Holy Ghost in the secret place.
Speaker 1
You can fool men, you can wear your smile like armor.
Speaker 1
And quote your favorite verses.
Speaker 1
But in the.
Speaker 1
But in the stillness, God starts speaking, he starts shining his light on the inner man.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He says that attitude, give it to me.
Speaker 1
That addiction.
Speaker 1
That secret, confess it.
Speaker 1
That wound.
Speaker 1
That wound, let me heal it.
Speaker 1
And if you'll stay long enough, you'll go deeper than any sermon could reach.
Speaker 1
Deeper.
Speaker 1
Deeper than any counselor could touch.
Speaker 1
He'll do.
Speaker 1
He'll do heart surgery in the silence.
Speaker 1
Think about.
Speaker 1
Think about Jonah when he was running from God.
Speaker 1
The Lord.
Speaker 1
The Lord didn't chase him with a preacher.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He didn't send a prophet.
Speaker 1
He sent a fish.
Speaker 1
And in the belly of that fish, alone in utter darkness.
Speaker 1
Jonah's.
Speaker 1
Jonah's heart was exposed.
Speaker 1
His rebellion.
Speaker 1
His fear, his selfishness, it all came to the surface.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
And from that place he cried out, in my distress, I called to the Lord.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
He answered me.
Speaker 1
That's what solitude.
Speaker 1
It strips us.
Speaker 1
It humbles us.
Speaker 1
It.
Speaker 1
It silences every excuse and brings us face to face with the God.
Speaker 1
Who sees it all and loves us still.
Speaker 1
Even Jesus.
Speaker 1
Even Jesus, the perfect son of God, regularly withdrew to solitary places to pray.
Speaker 1
Not.
Speaker 1
Not because he was hiding.
Speaker 1
But because.
Speaker 1
But because he was modeling something powerful, intimacy with the Father cannot be sustained in noise.
Speaker 1
The heart.
Speaker 1
The heart cannot be purified in the middle of the crowd.
Speaker 1
So he went away.
Speaker 1
So he went away again and again into the quiet.
Speaker 1
And in.
Speaker 1
And in that quiet, he stayed aligned with the will of the Father.
Speaker 1
You say you want to be used by God.
Speaker 1
Then let him test your heart.
Speaker 1
Let.
Speaker 1
Let him draw you into the quiet.
Speaker 1
Let him.
Speaker 1
Let him confront what's hidden beneath the surface.
Speaker 1
Because God.
Speaker 1
Because God will not bless what you pretend to be.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He blesses truth in the inward parts.
Speaker 1
I know some of you are saying.
Speaker 1
But it's painful.
Speaker 1
I didn't.
Speaker 1
I didn't expect this loneliness.
Speaker 1
I didn't ask.
Speaker 1
I didn't ask for this silence.
Speaker 1
No, you didn't.
Speaker 1
But God knows what you need more than you do.
Speaker 1
He knows.
Speaker 1
He knows that before he can annoy your lips, he has to purify your heart.
Speaker 1
Before he can.
Speaker 1
Before he can send you to speak, he has to silence you long enough to listen.
Speaker 1
Solitude is a mirror.
Speaker 1
It reflects who we really are.
Speaker 1
And for some.
Speaker 1
And for some, that's a terrifying thing.
Speaker 1
But for the humble.
Speaker 1
For the hungry, for the one who says, God, have all of me.
Speaker 1
That mirror becomes a window where you begin to see not just yourself.
Speaker 1
But the glory.
Speaker 1
But the glory of the one who's been waiting for you to finally be still.
Speaker 1
So stay.
Speaker 1
So stay in that place, let him work.
Speaker 1
Let him work, let him dig deep.
Speaker 1
Because what.
Speaker 1
Because what he reveals in solitude, he will heal in surrender.
Speaker 1
We've got.
Speaker 1
We've got it backwards, church.
Speaker 1
This world.
Speaker 1
This world tells us strength is proven in front of people.
Speaker 1
It tells us that.
Speaker 1
The strongest are the loudest, the most followed, the most visible.
Speaker 1
But heaven.
Speaker 1
But heaven doesn't measure strength the way man does.
Speaker 1
No.
Speaker 1
In the kingdom of strength, true strength is not forged in the spotlight.
Speaker 1
It is forged in isolation.
Speaker 1
It is not built in.
Speaker 1
It is not built in public platforms, but in private battles.
Speaker 1
The strongest.
Speaker 1
The strongest people in God's army are not the ones you see on the stage, but the ones who walk through fire when no one's watching and didn't bow down.
Speaker 1
You want power.
Speaker 1
You want power, you want authority, you want to walk in the spirit and not in the flesh.
Speaker 1
Then you've.
Speaker 1
Then you've got to be willing to go through the lonely place.
Speaker 1
Because every man.
Speaker 1
Because every man or woman God ever used had to face a private breaking before they walked in public power.
Speaker 1
Look at Joseph.
Speaker 1
Hated by his brothers.
Speaker 1
Sold into slavery.
Speaker 1
Falsely accused.
Speaker 1
Thrown into a prison for something he didn't do.
Speaker 1
For years he lived in obscurity.
Speaker 1
Alone.
Speaker 1
Forgotten.
Speaker 1
But what was God doing?
Speaker 1
He was forging strength.
Speaker 1
Joseph wasn't just waiting in a prison cell.
Speaker 1
He was being shaped.
Speaker 1
God was purging him of pride, preparing him to handle influence with humility.
Speaker 1
By the time Pharaoh's palace opened.
Speaker 1
Joseph didn't need the validation.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He had already wrestled through the pain.
Speaker 1
He.
Speaker 1
He had already learned to trust God when every door was shut.
Speaker 1
That's the kind.
Speaker 1
That's the kind of strength that lasts.
Speaker 1
Listen to me.
Speaker 1
Painful seasons are not wasted seasons.
Speaker 1
Isolation.
Speaker 1
Isolation is not inactivity.
Speaker 1
It's not.
Speaker 1
It's not punishment.
Speaker 1
It's preparation.
Speaker 1
God is doing something in you that no one else can see.
Speaker 1
And if you'll stay.
Speaker 1
And if you'll stay with him in that place, if you'll refuse to grow bitter.
Speaker 1
If you won't.
Speaker 1
If you won't run when it gets hard, he will make you into someone the enemy can't shake.
Speaker 1
David.
Speaker 1
David knew this before he ever took Goliath's head.
Speaker 1
He fought a lion and a bear in secret.
Speaker 1
No crowd.
Speaker 1
No cheers, just a shepherd boy with a sling and a heart that trusted in God.
Speaker 1
And that's where.
Speaker 1
And that's where God formed his strength.
Speaker 1
Not in the battlefield.
Speaker 1
But in the pasture.
Speaker 1
Not under pressure.
Speaker 1
For men, but in silence.
Speaker 1
Too.
Speaker 1
Too many want the victory, but they don't want the cave.
Speaker 1
They want the crown.
Speaker 1
But not the crushing.
Speaker 1
But friend.
Speaker 1
But friend, there's no shortcut to true power.
Speaker 1
There's.
Speaker 1
There's no elevator to spiritual authority.
Speaker 1
There's only the long, narrow path of surrender.
Speaker 1
And often.
Speaker 1
And often.
Speaker 1
And often that path winds through valleys of loneliness and blaze and silence and suffering.
Speaker 1
Not because God.
Speaker 1
Not because God is cruel, but because he knows what it takes.
Speaker 1
To build a vessel that can carry his glory.
Speaker 1
We're raising a.
Speaker 1
We're raising a generation that's allergic to discomfort.
Speaker 1
We've.
Speaker 1
We've equated blessing with comfort and assumed that hardship means God's not with us.
Speaker 1
But I'm telling you, some of your greatest strength is being born in the fire.
Speaker 1
You're walking through right now.
Speaker 1
You're being made.
Speaker 1
You're being hardened not in pride, but in faith.
Speaker 1
Not in bitterness, but in holiness.
Speaker 1
Paul.
Speaker 1
Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12, when I am weak.
Speaker 1
When I am weak, then I am strong.
Speaker 1
He learned.
Speaker 1
He learned something in the place of suffering.
Speaker 1
That no crowd could teach him.
Speaker 1
He was given a.
Speaker 1
He was given a thorn and he begged God to remove it.
Speaker 1
But God.
Speaker 1
But God didn't.
Speaker 1
Why?
Speaker 1
Cause.
Speaker 1
Cause the thorn kept him dependent.
Speaker 1
It kept.
Speaker 1
It kept him low.
Speaker 1
And in.
Speaker 1
And in that place of humility, God's strength was perfected.
Speaker 1
Maybe you're in.
Speaker 1
Maybe you're in a season right now where everything in you wants to give up.
Speaker 1
You've.
Speaker 1
You've prayed and it feels like nothing's happening.
Speaker 1
You've obeyed.
Speaker 1
And the door is still shut.
Speaker 1
You've.
Speaker 1
You've stood.
Speaker 1
And yet you feel alone.
Speaker 1
But.
Speaker 1
But hear this, God is not absent.
Speaker 1
He's working beneath the surface.
Speaker 1
He's forming.
Speaker 1
He's forming strength in you that will not collapse under pressure.
Speaker 1
He's teaching.
Speaker 1
He's teaching you how to fight with your knees, how to trust without seeing.
Speaker 1
How to praise.
Speaker 1
How to praise without feeling.
Speaker 1
That.
Speaker 1
That kind of strength doesn't come from a sermon, it comes from a furnace.
Speaker 1
It.
Speaker 1
It comes when you've cried your last tear and still say, don't be slave me.
Speaker 1
Yet will I trust him.
Speaker 1
It comes when you've buried your dream, but still lift your hands and declare, God is still faithful.
Speaker 1
And listen.
Speaker 1
Hell is terrified of that kind of strength.
Speaker 1
Because it's not emotional.
Speaker 1
It's.
Speaker 1
It's not circumstantial.
Speaker 1
It's not based on followers or applause.
Speaker 1
It's forged.
Speaker 1
It's forged in private prayer closets and sleepless nights of intercession.
Speaker 1
In long.
Speaker 1
In long walks with God where nobody else is around to pat you on the back.
Speaker 1
The devil doesn't.
Speaker 1
The devil doesn't tremble at your talents.
Speaker 1
He trembles.
Speaker 1
He trembles at your endurance, and that endurance is being built right now in the silence.
Speaker 1
In the pressing, in the solitude.
Speaker 1
So don't despise this season.
Speaker 1
Embrace it.
Speaker 1
Because you are not.
Speaker 1
You are being fortified.
Speaker 1
God is raising up a remnant of believers.
Speaker 1
Who can't be bought, can't be seduced and won't be moved.
Speaker 1
And they're not coming.
Speaker 1
And they're not coming from the platform.
Speaker 1
They're coming from the secret place.
Speaker 1
Church, if you don't hear anything else today.
Speaker 1
Hear this.
Speaker 1
God will never share his throne.
Speaker 1
He will not compete for your heart.
Speaker 1
He will not sit beside your idols.
Speaker 1
And sometimes.
Speaker 1
Sometimes the only way he can tear them down is to remove every distraction.
Speaker 1
Silence every voice and shut every door.
Speaker 1
And it's just you and him and nothing else to lean on.
Speaker 1
That's what isolation does.
Speaker 1
It exposes what we've trusted more than God.
Speaker 1
It breaks the things we've built with our own hands and called blessing.
Speaker 1
It tears down the false gods we've bowed to, it's secret comfort, security, reputation, people's approval, even ministry success.
Speaker 1
And it lays.
Speaker 1
And it lays them at the feet of the one true God who says, you shall have no other gods before me.
Speaker 1
We.
Speaker 1
We live in a time of idolatry like never before.
Speaker 1
Not with golden calves or stone statues.
Speaker 1
But.
Speaker 1
But with followers, fame, convenience, relationships.
Speaker 1
Comfort, image.
Speaker 1
We've made idols out of relationships.
Speaker 1
It.
Speaker 1
It all starts with jobs.
Speaker 1
Idols.
Speaker 1
Idols out of pastors, prophets, health.
Speaker 1
And even our own opinions.
Speaker 1
And the danger.
Speaker 1
And the danger is many of us are worshipping these things.
Speaker 1
While still claiming the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1
But God.
Speaker 1
But God loves you too much to let you stay there.
Speaker 1
You see.
Speaker 1
It's one thing to sing, I surrender all in a crowded room.
Speaker 1
It's another.
Speaker 1
It's another thing to actually have everything stripped away until he is all you have left.
Speaker 1
That's.
Speaker 1
That's where the idols are exposed.
Speaker 1
That's where the deep.
Speaker 1
Cleansing begins.
Speaker 1
Is when the lights.
Speaker 1
Is when the lights go out and the voices disappear and the comfort is gone.
Speaker 1
You find.
Speaker 1
You find out what you really worship.
Speaker 1
Look at Abraham.
Speaker 1
He waited decades for the promise.
Speaker 1
And finally, when Isaac came as miracle child.
Speaker 1
The fulfillment.
Speaker 1
The fulfillment of everything he hoped for, God tested him.
Speaker 1
Take.
Speaker 1
Take thy only son, thy only son, Isaac, whom thou lovest.
Speaker 1
And offer.
Speaker 1
Him there.
Speaker 1
It wasn't about child sacrifice.
Speaker 1
It was.
Speaker 1
It was about the heart.
Speaker 1
God.
Speaker 1
God was saying, Abraham, I gave you the promise, but do you love the promise more than me?
Speaker 1
And hear me.
Speaker 1
Many of us are clinging to blessings that have become idols.
Speaker 1
Things God gave us, now sitting in the place of God himself.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
And he is calling us into solitude, not to punish us, but to purify us.
Speaker 1
He's saying.
Speaker 1
He's saying, lay it down.
Speaker 1
Put it on the altar.
Speaker 1
That.
Speaker 1
That voice you've been listening to more than mine, turn it off.
Speaker 1
That person.
Speaker 1
That position, that plan, if it's taking my place, give it up.
Speaker 1
Because until.
Speaker 1
Because until the idols fall, the presence won't come.
Speaker 1
But once they.
Speaker 1
All.
Speaker 1
Once they do.
Speaker 1
You'll.
Speaker 1
You'll fill your heart with peace like a river, joy like a fountain.
Speaker 1
And a strength.
Speaker 1
No idol could ever offer.
Speaker 1
Let him have.
Speaker 1
Let him have his place again.
Speaker 1
Let him be.
Speaker 1
Let him be all.
Speaker 1
There's a reason.
Speaker 1
There's a reason the spirit leads us into a loneliness, church.
Speaker 1
There's a reason.
Speaker 1
There's a reason he calls you away from the crowd, away from applause.
Speaker 1
Away from man's affirmation.
Speaker 1
It's not.
Speaker 1
It's not to isolate you as punishment.
Speaker 1
It's to prepare you for purpose.
Speaker 1
God is not.
Speaker 1
God is not trying to bury you in the quiet.
Speaker 1
He's planting you.
Speaker 1
And what feels like a death is really the beginning of a holy assignment.
Speaker 1
Before.
Speaker 1
Before God uses a man or woman mightily, he must separate them deeply.
Speaker 1
And that separation is not just physical, it's spiritual, it's internal.
Speaker 1
It's the cutting away.
Speaker 1
It's the cutting away of all that is of the flesh so that the assignment birth is pure, undefiled and fully aligned with the will of heaven.
Speaker 1
Look.
Speaker 1
Look at Moses, he grew up in Pharaoh's palace with prestige, education and influence.
Speaker 1
But.
Speaker 1
But before he ever became a deliverer, God had to lead him to the backside of the desert for 40 years.
Speaker 1
Alone.
Speaker 1
Hidden.
Speaker 1
Forgotten.
Speaker 1
Forgotten by man, but not forgotten by God.
Speaker 1
Because Moses wasn't ready to lead.
Speaker 1
And lead him to be.
Speaker 1
He wasn't ready to speak until he had learned to listen.
Speaker 1
And it was in the quiet by the burning bush that God gave him his assignment.
Speaker 1
Church.
Speaker 1
Church, hear me, God gives holy assignments in hidden places.
Speaker 1
The noise.
Speaker 1
The noise of this world cannot carry the weight of divine instruction.
Speaker 1
The plans of heaven are too sacred to be shouted in the streets.
Speaker 1
Before they are whispered in the secret place.
Speaker 1
That's why.
Speaker 1
That's why the enemy fights your loneliness so hard.
Speaker 1
He doesn't fear.
Speaker 1
He doesn't fear your popularity.
Speaker 1
He fears your consecration.
Speaker 1
He doesn't.
Speaker 1
He doesn't tremble at your platform, he trembles when you step away from it.
Speaker 1
And go into the wilderness to hear the voice of the Lord.
Speaker 1
Because.
Speaker 1
Because he knows once God speaks to a yielded vessel in solitude.
Speaker 1
The gates of hell cannot stop what's coming.
Speaker 1
Some.
Speaker 1
Some of you feel like you're in a holding pattern right now.
Speaker 1
You've been praying.
Speaker 1
You've been faithful.
Speaker 1
But nothing seems to be moving.
Speaker 1
And you wonder, God.
Speaker 1
Why have you brought me here?
Speaker 1
Why?
Speaker 1
Why is it so quiet?
Speaker 1
But what if this place of stillness is the very place where your assignment is being formed?
Speaker 1
The deeper the calling.
Speaker 1
The deeper the carving.
Speaker 1
And God.
Speaker 1
And God doesn't send people into battle who haven't been proven in the quiet.
Speaker 1
He doesn't.
Speaker 1
He doesn't hand out mantles to those who won't stay long enough to be refined.
Speaker 1
This generation wants.
Speaker 1
This generation wants promotion without process.
Speaker 1
We.
Speaker 1
We want the fire without the altar.
Speaker 1
But I'm telling.
Speaker 1
But I'm telling you, friend, you don't get the divine assignment without the divine breaking.
Speaker 1
Even.
Speaker 1
Even Jesus, the son of God, did not begin his ministry until the wilderness, the spirit led.
Speaker 1
Him in there.
Speaker 1
Not the devil, not the Pharisees, not his own desires.
Speaker 1
But the spirit.
Speaker 1
And in that place of fasting, praying and testing, the son submitted to the will of the Father.
Speaker 1
And out.
Speaker 1
And out of that holy aloneness, he came forth in power.
Speaker 1
You.
Speaker 1
You want to want to walk in power.
Speaker 1
Then.
Speaker 1
Then you've got to learn how to walk alone.
Speaker 1
You've.
Speaker 1
You've got to learn how to minister to God.
Speaker 1
When there's no audience.
Speaker 1
You've got to learn.
Speaker 1
You've got to learn how to hear his whisper when there's no one around to confirm what he said.
Speaker 1
Because.
Speaker 1
Because God's assignments don't come with flashing lights.
Speaker 1
They come with stillness.
Speaker 1
They come with sacred fire.
Speaker 1
Some of you are trying to drag people into a season.
Speaker 1
God designed for you alone.
Speaker 1
You.
Speaker 1
You keep looking around for agreement for someone to validate the word God gave you.
Speaker 1
But.
Speaker 1
But beloved, when God gives the assignment, he doesn't always include a witness.
Speaker 1
At least.
Speaker 1
At least not right away.
Speaker 1
Sometimes.
Speaker 1
Sometimes it's just you and the burning in your bones.
Speaker 1
And if you'll carry it faithfully.
Speaker 1
If you'll.
Speaker 1
If you'll obey it fully.
Speaker 1
The fruit will come in time.
Speaker 1
But first.
Speaker 1
But first you must yield.
Speaker 1
You must let him.
Speaker 1
You must let him strip away the fear of man.
Speaker 1
You must let him.
Speaker 1
You must let him dig out the pride that wants to be seen.
Speaker 1
You must let him crucify the ambition.
Speaker 1
That seeks the stage instead of the secret place.
Speaker 1
Cause.
Speaker 1
Cause this isn't about your name.
Speaker 1
It's about his kingdom.
Speaker 1
He said.
Speaker 1
He said, but I feel so forgotten.
Speaker 1
No.
Speaker 1
No, you are hidden.
Speaker 1
Hidden by the hand of God.
Speaker 1
Hidden so that what he places in you cannot be stolen.
Speaker 1
Hidden so that no man can take the credit for what he's birthing in your spirit.
Speaker 1
Hidden.
Speaker 1
Hidden so that when the door opens, it won't be because you forced it.
Speaker 1
But because heaven commanded it.
Speaker 1
When that happens.
Speaker 1
You will not step forward in arrogance.
Speaker 1
You will not move in flesh.
Speaker 1
You will not try.
Speaker 1
You will not try to impress.
Speaker 1
You.
Speaker 1
You will walk in trembling obedience, knowing the way to the call.
Speaker 1
The cost of the preparation and the faithfulness of the one who brought you through.
Speaker 1
Alone, this is not the end of your story.
Speaker 1
It's the beginning of divine destiny.
Speaker 1
Stay there.
Speaker 1
Stay there, let him finish the work.
Speaker 1
Church, I say this with trembling in my heart.
Speaker 1
This is a holy call.
Speaker 1
This is not just another message to stir emotion or fill time.
Speaker 1
This is a summons.
Speaker 1
This is a summons from the throne room of God to come out from among the noise of striving.
Speaker 1
The false comfort and danger into the sacred school of aloneness.
Speaker 1
Because there are.
Speaker 1
Because there are some things God cannot do in us until everything else has been stripped away.
Speaker 1
You see, being alone isn't a curse.
Speaker 1
It's a divine appointment.
Speaker 1
It is in that place.
Speaker 1
It is in that place that God reveals himself.
Speaker 1
Not just to your mind.
Speaker 1
But.
Speaker 1
But to your spirit.
Speaker 1
It's where he makes.
Speaker 1
It's where he makes his word alive.
Speaker 1
It's where he shows.
Speaker 1
It's where he shows you who he really is.
Speaker 1
And it's where he shows.
Speaker 1
And it's where he shows you who you really are.
Speaker 1
In the aloneness.
Speaker 1
In the aloneness, he speaks things no crowd could confirm.
Speaker 1
He bursts things no man could explain.
Speaker 1
He kills.
Speaker 1
He kills things in you that needed to die and resurrects things in you that religion could never produce.
Speaker 1
And when you.
Speaker 1
And when you come out of that place, you're not just different, you're anointed.
Speaker 1
You're marked.
Speaker 1
You're consecrated.
Speaker 1
You don't come out.
Speaker 1
You come out burning.
Speaker 1
You don't come.
Speaker 1
You don't come out chasing platforms, you come out carrying crosses.
Speaker 1
This.
Speaker 1
This is the call to a remnant.
Speaker 1
A holy.
Speaker 1
A holy remnant.
Speaker 1
A people are done playing games.
Speaker 1
A people who don't.
Speaker 1
A people who don't want shallow religion, but deep repentance.
Speaker 1
Who don't want.
Speaker 1
Who don't want hype, but holy fire.
Speaker 1
Who are willing.
Speaker 1
Who are willing to be misunderstood, willing to be forgotten by man.
Speaker 1
If only they can be remembered by God.
Speaker 1
Friend.
Speaker 1
Friend, I don't know what your season looks like.
Speaker 1
Maybe you're in a place where no one understands you.
Speaker 1
Maybe.
Speaker 1
Maybe you've been abandoned, betrayed, pushed aside.
Speaker 1
Maybe every door you've prayed to open has stayed shut.
Speaker 1
But.
Speaker 1
But I came to tell you, you are not being buried, you are being planted.
Speaker 1
And what God is planting in the soil of your solitude will bear fruit that will shake nations.
Speaker 1
If you don't walk away.
Speaker 1
Don't despise the silence.
Speaker 1
Don't rush.
Speaker 1
Don't rush the wilderness.
Speaker 1
Don't curse.
Speaker 1
Don't curse the hidden place.
Speaker 1
Embrace it.
Speaker 1
Fall on your face in it.
Speaker 1
Let him do his work.
Speaker 1
Let him cleanse.
Speaker 1
Let him strip.
Speaker 1
Let him fill.
Speaker 1
Let him speak.
Speaker 1
Because when it's over, when he says it's time, no demon in hell, no opposition on earth.
Speaker 1
No fear in your soul will be able to stop what he is ordained.
Speaker 1
And.
Speaker 1
And when you rise, when he calls your name and says, now go.
Speaker 1
You won't.
Speaker 1
You won't rise in your own power.
Speaker 1
You.
Speaker 1
You won't speak from your own mind.
Speaker 1
You won't move in the strength of the flesh.
Speaker 1
You will walk.
Speaker 1
You will walk in the anointing of one who has been alone with God.
Speaker 1
And when you walk.
Speaker 1
And when you walk like that.
Speaker 1
The.
Speaker 1
The world notices not because you're impressive.
Speaker 1
But because he is alive in you.
Speaker 1
So I plead with you, brothers and sisters, don't waste your wilderness.
Speaker 1
Don't abort the process.
Speaker 1
Don't chase man's approval.
Speaker 1
Chase his presence.
Speaker 1
Don't fear the silence.
Speaker 1
Trust.
Speaker 1
Trust the voice in the silence.
Speaker 1
Because being alone, being truly holy, intimately alone with God is not weakness.
Speaker 1
It's power.
Speaker 1
It's where saints are made.
Speaker 1
It's where warriors are forged.
Speaker 1
It's.
Speaker 1
It's where callings are birth.
Speaker 1
It's where idols die and destinies begin.
Speaker 1
And it's where the fire falls.
Speaker 1
Stay.
Speaker 1
Stay there until it does.
Speaker 1
Amen.
Topics:solitudespiritual growthwildernessfaithGod's presencepreparationDavid WilkersonChristian encouragementovercoming lonelinessspiritual breakthrough
