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The Jesus No One Talks About Series Pt. 4: Jesus Experienced Loneliness | Friday Devotion · Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation

• 0:05
  Pastor Robert Young: Today's scripture is coming from the book of Matthew, chapter twenty-seven, verse number forty-six.
• 0:13
  Pastor Robert Young: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
• 0:24
  Pastor Robert Young: This is a means of entering the deepest human emotion.
• 0:29
  Pastor Robert Young: Loneliness.
• 0:31
  Pastor Robert Young: He feels abandoned, unseen, and unheard.
• 0:36
  Pastor Robert Young: He experiences the silence of God so that we would never face it alone.
• 0:48
  Pastor Robert Young: He meets us in it.
• 0:58
  Pastor Robert Young: Now imagine Jesus on the cross, his eyes searching, his heart breaking, and feeling the weight of isolation.
• 1:12
  Pastor Robert Young: Now picture him turning his face toward you in your lonely places, not from a distance, but from shared experience.
• 1:31
  Pastor Robert Young: Let's take three minutes to reflect on the following question.
• 1:36
  Pastor Robert Young: Where do I feel alone that Jesus is already present?
• 4:31
  Pastor Robert Young: Repeat this affirmation with me now and throughout your day.
• 4:37
  Pastor Robert Young: I am never alone.
• 4:39
  Pastor Robert Young: Jesus has been where I am.
• 4:43
  Pastor Robert Young: Let's say it again.
• 4:45
  Pastor Robert Young: I am never alone.
• 4:47
  Pastor Robert Young: Jesus has been where I am.
• 4:59
  Pastor Robert Young: Our closing prayer.
• 5:02
  Pastor Robert Young: Jesus, thank you for entering the depths of loneliness so you can meet me in mine.
• 5:09
  Pastor Robert Young: Draw me near in every place that feels empty, quiet, or abandoned.
• 5:18
  Pastor Robert Young: Amen.