Ep:(188) How to Live Set Apart In Your Business

Lonely places.

I'm curious if while you're listening to this, if you find yourself in a lonely place.

And it's interesting to me because as I was going through like my story and how I feel like God has called me to seek first the kingdom of heaven and his righteousness, right? It doesn't matter if I'm on the mountaintop or if I'm in the valley, both places are set apart and both places carry with them this feeling of loneliness.

And it's funny because our culture and just in general, like nobody wants to be lonely.

Nobody wants to experience loneliness.

Nobody wants to feel abandoned or like they're in it by themselves.

But this is the truth.

God calls us to lonely places, set apart places.

The Bible even talks about in Luke 5, 16, that Jesus withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

And why did he do that? It is for intimacy.

it is for deeper connection and relationship to god and when we're looking at the mountaintop right when when like you're experiencing major success a lot of times like we think oh that's going to be amazing up there but actually it's sometimes quite lonely it's lonely at the top like if you literally look at a mountain at the tippy top There's not a lot of space up there.

And sometimes when God expands your influence, right? Expansion syndrome is coming out soon.

Whoop, whoop.

But when God expands your influence and he calls you to do something to step out and it can feel lonely and i don't think we expect it to feel lonely i think we expect people to rally with us and to come with us but oftentimes it actually means a shedding away if you i did an episode a couple weeks ago about how god often prunes us before he expands us And that is true.

And the truth is, is when you're stepping into an expansion season or a season of influence or when he's building you or he's bringing you into a new mountaintop experience moment, it can feel lonely.

It can feel lonely.

And similarly with the valley.

And you might feel like you're in a valley right now because nothing's going right.

Everything's going wrong.

It feels like everybody else is succeeding and getting all their prayers answered, but you're not.

That can feel lonely, right? And sometimes the valley feels familiar.

It's like I've been here before.

Right? That can feel lonely, like feeling misunderstood, like nobody understands what I'm going through.

Nobody's experienced this level of pain.

right being set apart has with its nature a feeling of loneliness right this is what i want you to catch this is like this if you can catch this if you can catch this this will forever change your life this will forever change your life That even when you withdraw to lonely places, whether God calls you to them because you are seeking first his kingdom and he's bringing you into this season of influence where you're at the top and you're leading and you're in charge and you're carrying weight and you're Being seen and having levels of responsibility you never expected.