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“And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.”
Matthew 14:23
1. Solitude Allows Us to Reflect
2. Solitude Helps Us to Heal Our Broken Hearts
3. Solitude Strengthens Us for the Tasks Ahead
Solitude is abstaining from people contact in order to be alone with God and get closer to Him.
It is fasting from social contact in order to remove others from the God/me equation.
The value of solitude is that it closes off many relationships so we can focus on one.
Talk about fear of being alone and how this plays out in our lives.
We fill our lives with noise and distractions
We hate being alone.
We look for other people to “complete us”
We look for things to constantly entertain us
We seek experiences to keep us constantly occupied.
We need to be ok though, with being alone with God.
It was a critical element of Jesus ministry.
He sought solitude with God, to keep him centred in Him.
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“At once the Spirit sent [Jesus] out into the desert, and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan.
He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.”
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“Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee… ‘Come, follow me,’ he said.”
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“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.”
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“[Despite Jesus’ plea that his miracles be kept secret] the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.”
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“Once again Jesus went out beside the lake.”
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“One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples walked along.”
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“Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed.”
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“Jesus went out to a mountain side to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
When morning came, he called his disciples to him.”
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“Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.
Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore.
Then he told them many things in parables.”
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“When Jesus heard [that John the Baptist had been beheaded], he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place.”
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“Because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, [Jesus] said to [his disciples], ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.’
So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.”
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“After [Jesus] had dismissed [the crowds], he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.
When evening came, he was [still] there alone.”
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“[Jesus] entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret.”
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“Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, ‘Who do the crowds say I am?'” (.
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“Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee.
And he went up on the mountain and sat down there.”
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“Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone.
There he was transfigured before them.”
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“Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone.
There he was transfigured before them.”
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[Jesus walked 90 miles from Galilee to Jerusalem, which gave him about five days in solitude.]
[Jesus walked 90 miles from Galilee to Jerusalem, which gave him about five days in solitude.]
“Again [the religious leaders in Jerusalem] sought to arrest [Jesus], but he escaped from their hands.
He went away again [walking about five miles] across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
And many came to him.”
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“They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid.”
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[Apparently Jesus kept silent for most of the 22-mile hike.
Luke says Jesus was “resolute” (9:51).
He told them that he’d be tortured and killed in Jerusalem.]
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[Apparently Jesus kept silent for most of the 22-mile hike.
Luke says Jesus was “resolute” (9:51).
He told them that he’d be tortured and killed in Jerusalem.]
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This was Jesus’ “usual place” to pray when he was in Jerusalem.
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Solitude is abstaining from people contact in order to be alone with God and get closer to Him.
It is fasting from social contact in order to remove others from the God/me equation.
The value of solitude is that it closes off many relationships so we can focus on one.
“They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Sit here while I pray.'”
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Solitude is abstaining from people contact in order to be alone with God and get closer to Him.
It is fasting from social contact in order to remove others from the God/me equation.
The value of solitude is that it closes off many relationships so we can focus on one.
Solitude is more a state of mind and heart than it is a place.
There is a solitude of the heart that can be maintained at all times.
Crowds, or the lack of them, have little to do with this inward attentiveness.
It is quite possible to be a desert hermit and never experience solitude.
But if we possess inward solitude we do not fear being alone, for we know that we are not alone.
Neither do we fear being with others, for they do not control us.
In the midst of noise and confusion we are settled into a deep inner silence.
Whether alone or among people, we always carry with us a portable sanctuary of the heart.
Solitude is the opposite of loneliness
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich (Lutheran Theologian)
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
—Paul Tillich
Inward solitude has outward manifestations.
There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.
Jesus lived in inward “heart solitude.”
Jesus and the early Christians practiced solitude.
Just before Jesus began His ministry, He spent a full forty days and nights in the solitude of the desert.
He emerged in power.
Even though He had only a few years to accomplish His earthly work, Jesus arranged His life so that He could slip away from His followers sometimes to be alone.
Jesus and the Early Christians
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