If you are one of those individuals who feel alone and lonely, having come out of the harlot church system and having not found fellowship with others, you may find this article comforting.

As believers in Messiah, we are a body of related members; therefore, it is quite normal and necessary that we not live in isolation one from another if possible. Many of you desire true fellowship with other believers, but know that God has called you out of the organized, corporation church system. Even while in it, you found little true fellowship if any. As was the case for many years, my wife and I found very few people who wanted to “be” the body of Messiah with us unless we were connected to one of those Things we call church. So, what are we to do?

Our Bridegroom is very jealous for His bride. He has always been jealous, but He is getting more demonstrative in His jealousy in these latter days. He wants to rid us of any and all idols that steal our affection away from Him.

Idols are those things we depend upon for our sufficiency other than the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) Messiah. Church and fellowship can certainly be one of those idols. They tend to steal the bride’s affection away from her intended.

Loneliness itself can serve a good purpose. We tend to be lonely for someone or something we miss. That person or thing we miss might very likely be an unwholesome dependency in our lives. Any dependency other than on God is idolatry. So, loneliness may be exposing an idol.

There is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. To be alone with God is wonderful. To be alone without God leads to loneliness, emptiness, and despair.

He alone can see the idolatries in our hearts. He loves us enough to take them from us so that we can turn to Him with a whole heart and abandon everything else in our heart.

Enjoy your time of separation unto Him who is your Bridegroom and do not struggle for “fellowship” or anything else. He is calling you into a new order altogether. Don’t look for anything to be like you used to know it. A new order altogether is coming.

Be content in Him and with Him. When we come to that place in our hearts when we know that He alone is our sufficiency, when we don’t need these idols anymore, then He will give it to us as He chooses. He is quite capable of providing fellowship and Kingdom relationships.

Moreover, when we come out of those Things to which we have been addicted, we generally need a time for detoxification from them. As surely as we try to start something in its place, it won’t be long until we have once again another one of those Things on our hands. We tend to go back into what we came out of, until what we came out of has been taken out of us.

Keep your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. Let Him be your sufficiency. He places you in His body as He wills.