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Loneliness

Pray for being alone in a room full of people, and the God who sets the lonely in families

Scripture

Psalm 68:5-6

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Hebrews 13:5

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Genesis 2:18-25

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. The LORD God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,' because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

Pray these

  1. God, You see how alone I've felt, even when I haven't said it out loud.
  2. Set me in a family. Show me where I actually belong.
  3. Give me courage to reach first instead of waiting to be reached for.
  4. Where I've withdrawn to protect myself, gently draw me back out.
  5. Thank You that You will not leave me, even when people have.

Scripture is quoted from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.