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Isaiah 54:4-5 really ministered to me when I was going through a season of feeling isolated & hurt by people I loved dearly. Verse 5 is so awesome because God assures me that He is my Maker and my Husband. Maker refers to Him as my Creator and Establisher while Husband speaks to Him as my Covering and Protector.

Be strong in the Lord and in the Power of His might. He cares about everything that concerns us. In times of feeling isolated and hurt, it's a time when we gain revelation of who He really is. This is a period of "Faith" being tested. When you don't feel Him near....will you still trust Him (Donnie McClurkin said that best).

Be blessed!
 
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Lord help our hearts to trust You...even in the dark...it is not about how we feel...but about how great You really are...able to carry us, know matter how we feel...willing to carry us when feelings won't or can't...able to do and willing to do more than we can ask or think. Strengthen our hearts Lord with Your grace...help us to understand and believe it in more than our selves or circumstances.

Help us also Lord to forgive...pasts hurts, but also to forgive ourselves...we are but dust...yet You love us with an everlasting love. Thank You Lord.
 
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Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Luke 6:22-23 Blessed are you when men...exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.

2 Corinthians 1:2-5 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

1 Peter 2:4-5, 9, 19, 21 As you come to Him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to Him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ...But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light...For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God...But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps.
 
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You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength. Isaiah 26:3,4

Being a christian is no guarantee things will go smoothly and that we'll feel good! When the peace of Christ dwells in us we know then that it is forever His way, His will that must be done. Often that way is very difficult and it is then, if we continue to trust Him, we will grow in our faith!

God bless you!:prayer:
 
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Ah...There are three areas I go to in the Word when feeling down and needing uplifting.

The first may be rather suprising for some. Most associate it with death when in fact it's all about life. [bible]Psalm 23:1-6[/bible]

The second is "The Sermon on the Mount". Matthew 5

Last, but certainly not least, would be John 14 and 15.
 
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electlady0716 said:
Isaiah 54:4-5 really ministered to me when I was going through a season of feeling isolated & hurt by people I loved dearly. Verse 5 is so awesome because God assures me that He is my Maker and my Husband. Maker refers to Him as my Creator and Establisher while Husband speaks to Him as my Covering and Protector.

Be strong in the Lord and in the Power of His might. He cares about everything that concerns us. In times of feeling isolated and hurt, it's a time when we gain revelation of who He really is. This is a period of "Faith" being tested. When you don't feel Him near....will you still trust Him (Donnie McClurkin said that best).

Be blessed!
I went through a rejection by someone very close to me and one of my mentors gave some verses from Isaiah 53 & 54. I can still quote 54:10 from memory, and that was more than twenty years ago.

Yet I still lose sight of His love. We all do.
 
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