In this day, the Holy Spirit is bringing forth the unity of the Body of Christ; Satan, on the other hand, is trying in every way possible to isolate the members so that they cannot communicate or work with one another.
Psalm 102 reveals the heart of a man who felt isolated and alone. He was afflicted, and he poured out his soul to the Lord, saying, I lie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop. Verse 7. The King James Version says, I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. The psalmist felt like a lonely bird standing off by himself.
We should repent whenever we have any openness which allows a spirit of loneliness and isolation to reach us. Isolation has access to us only if we allow it.
We are accepted in the beloved.
Three Scriptures speak of the time Jesus faced alone, before and during His crucifixion. We read in John 16:32 that Jesus prepared His disciples for His separation from them. “Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.”
Mark 14:50 tells what Jesus’ disciples did when He was taken captive: And they all left Him and fled. Matthew 27:45–46 is a powerful Scripture which speaks of that last hour of the crucifixion. Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
Jesus first said, “I am not alone; the Father is with Me. Yet the hour is coming and is here when you will all leave Me alone, and yet I will not be alone.” Later the disciples all forsook Him and fled. Then on the cross, Jesus prayed and cried out to the Father, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
When Jesus cried out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Now he wasn’t forsaken of God, the Father was in the dark cloud that came down upon Jesus at that time. But what He was experiencing was all the loneliness that we have felt. His soul became a sin offering, he felt our rejection, so that we could experience His acceptance. The Father loves us just like His only begotton son Jesus.
The cross is a trading platform; he took our sorrows, so that we could experience His joy. For the joy set before him-our total acceptance in Him, he endured the cross despising the shame. The Father did not forsake him, but everyone else did.
The people of that day forsook him-crucify him! Crucify Him! They killled him, He was totally rejected, that we might experience total acceptance.
Everyone forsook Christ, which means that in Christ the time will come when we will see everyone standing together and not forsaking each other.
The redemptive work of Christ has made it possible for us to see the oppression of the satanic spirit of isolation come to an end. Isolation is broken by the redemptive blessings of the Lord. Not one of us has to be a lonely bird on a housetop. We can appropriate blessings from one another and absolutely refuse to be cut off from one another.
Isolation can come upon us in subtle little ways. A lie can come about us, which we totally reject. Nevertheless, suspicion is planted in our mind as it was in Eve’s: “Hath God said?” We will question our oneness with our brother or sister: “Are we really one? Am I cut off?” Whether or not we believe that suspicion, the enemy is able to create a wall merely upon the strength of any suspicion among the brethren.
It is a sin to lack a determined faith and a determined love and unity with our brothers and sisters. We must repent of that and determine to be one with the brethren. We have to determine not to walk with suspicion about anyone, nor to entertain any lies of the enemy. We must dwell on that which is good, just as Paul instructed the Philippian church: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of a good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8.
Let us walk as sons of God according to Romans 8, which speaks of the manifestation of the sons of God. These are the days in which we must intercede and travail for each other, in the hope and expectation of bringing forth the will of God in the earth. This is an hour of travail. We do not have to be subjected to futility or isolated from one another. Let us not be ashamed of one another or of ourselves. Let us not be ashamed of loving one another intensely, nor embarrassed to worship and praise God and cry to Him intensely.
The enemy creates illusions of problems, yet a closer look indicates that the problems do not exist. The lies of Satan come to set one person against another and to isolate them from each other. We can feel as lonely as a little sparrow on a housetop if we think that we have been cut off from the brethren. Let us ask the Lord to give us a spirit of revelation to know the oneness that we can really share with each other and to know our identity as the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
No matter where God’s people are situated upon the face of the earth, they must not be cut off from one another. The enemy will not be able to lie to them and isolate them, to single them out and pick them off one by one, if they stand together rebuking that tactic and proclaiming their unity and oneness.
If you have been harassed by that spirit of isolation and loneliness, repent of any openness through which Satan’s lies can get through. Learn to shut the door to these divisive lies. Confess your oneness with the Lord and with all of the Body. You will not be isolated if you are in a position of expressing your faith.
God is perfecting His love in us, we are the family of God and we love one another intensely, this is divine love. The Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.
Did you know that the Father himself feels lonely at times; I mean the majority of the world rejects Him, how would that make you feel?
We need to spend some time with the Father and tell him how much we love Him and appreciate Him.