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I JUST DON’T WANT TO BE LONELY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - When that happens, we step FARTHER AND FARTHER AWAY from our source of safety and security, which means we end up living a life of INSECURITY
        
        Until this day, THE ENEMY LOVES TO DECEIVE US by lying to us and twisting truths. One of the lies he LOVES to use because it’s so effective is, “YOU’RE ALL ALONE:”
  - - - Today, God is asking, “WHO TOLD YOU THAT?”
        Who told you that you’re alone, who told you that you’re unwanted? Who told you that you’re too much or you’re a burden? Whether you’re struggling with loneliness or feeling like you’re not good enough, God is asking you, “WHO TOLD YOU THAT?”
  - - - THE GOOD NEWS: JAMES 4:7-8 - “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you.”
- - - - THEY DIDN’T SEE THEMSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS BUT AS A MEMBERS OF A GROUP —- they were DIVERSE in racial mix, status levels, skills, age groups
  - - - THE GREATEST NEED OF SINGLES
        
        FAMILY = ISN’T JUST PEOPLE IN YOUR AGE GROUP OR LIFE STAGE
        
        A “FATHER” / “MOTHER” / FRIEND / “OLDER SIBLINGS” / “YOUNGER SIBLINGS”
        
        1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-14 - “The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit. Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.”
        
        1 CORINTHIANS 12:26-27 - “If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored all the parts are glad. All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.”
  - - - SINGLE x MARRIED
      - TEENAGERS/YOUNG ADULTS need WISDOM!
  - - - That’s why we do CONNECT GROUPS
- - - - PROVERBS 13:12 - “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.”
        
        What’s worse than hope deferred is FALSE HOPE = False expectaitions
        
        God used my season to humble me to release my false expectations and be open to what God could do. IMPORTANT LIFE LESSON for ALL AREAS OF LIFE!
    - - ROMANS 12:2 - “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”
        
        WOW, What God can do when you have a new way of thinking, it opens up new possibilities.
        
        Just like learning how to drive took me to good, pleasing, and perfect places, God can do the same when we push through the discomfort of learning how think and live counter intuitively. IT MAY BE BUMPY. YOU MAY SWERVE OFF YOUR LANE FOR A BIT. YOU MIGHT MAKE MISTAKES, but imagine if you never tried.
      - Hurt people, hurt others. Isolated people, isolate others.
        
        I only did what I learned from the people who came before me and those around me, who learned from the people who came before them and those around them.
        
        Learning a new way of life and a new way of thinking is SO COUNTERINTUITIVE AND UNCOMFORTABLE. Just like driving in Australia.
      - One of our taglines that we use in Manila is that Favor Church is the FAMILY YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.
        
        HEALTHY and FUNCTIONAL FAMILY I’ve been looking for.
        
        I learned to COMMUNICATE, RESOLVE CONFLICT, GIVE GRACE, BE PATIENT WITH PEOPLE, HOW TO FORGIVE AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, HOW NOT TO JUDGE PEOPLE, HOW TO LOVE PEOPLE BUT HAVE GOOD BOUNDARIES, HOW TO EMBRACE DIFFERENCES, VALUE AND HONOR PEOPLE, HOW TO NOT JUST GIVE BUT RECEIVE LOVE
        
        It’s been an UNCOMFORTABLE, HUMBLING journey. But I’m all the better for it, and it’s opened me up to a world of better and healthier relationships not just at present, but I know for the future as well.
    - - ROMANS 8:28 - “And we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good, for those who are claled according to his purpose.”
        
        When I realize my pain has a purpose, it doesn’t hurt as much. Instead of seeing my experience of as a flaw, curse, or source of shame, I see it as a strength, a blessing, and a gift I can use to bless others.
      - THE BEST COMPLIMENT I HAVE RECEIVED
        
        WHAT YOU THINK IS YOUR GREATEST WEAKNESS COULD BE YOUR GREATEST GIFT
        
        Maybe some of you are wondering, how can I have anything to give, when I myself feel lonely? You know WHO GOD USES TO BRING HEALING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LONELY? People who know and understand loneliness.
    - - I was looking to find love from one person, instead God SHOWED ME LOVE THROUGH MULTIPLE PEOPLE.
        
        AITONS / STAFF / FAVOR GIRLS / CONNECT GROUPS / MOMMIES OF FAVOR / ALL OF FAVOR MANILA + FAVOR BNE FAMILY + MY OWN FAMILY
        
        SO TO RECAP: God GIVES US SECURITY, God CONNECTS US TO FAMILIES, God GIVES US ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT WE CAN ASK OR THINK, AND LASTLY, the most foundational one of all….