1. Overcomers: winning life’s battles OVERCOMING LONELINESS
Rev. Robert J. Smith
Pastor
Colonial Hills Baptist Church

2. OVERCOMERS: WINNING LIFE’S BATTLES
7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Revelation 21:7 (KJV)

3. LONELINESS IS BAD
18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. Genesis 2:18 (KJV)

4. Loneliness is a common fact
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. Psalm 102:6-7 (KJV)

5. Loneliness is a common fact
Loss of purpose
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19  Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; Ephesians 2:18-19 (KJV)

6. Loneliness is a common fact
Loss of Person
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:27 (KJV)

7. Loneliness is a common fact
Loss of Perspective (The Story of Elijah)
17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. James 5:17 (KJV)

8. Loneliness is a common fact
Loss of Perspective (The Story of Elijah)
18Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
1 Kings 19:18 (KJV)

9. Loneliness has a crippling force
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. Psalm 102:6-7 (KJV)

10. Loneliness has a certain friend
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. Psalm 102:6-7 (KJV)

11. Loneliness has a certain friend
Jesus cares 7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7 (KJV)

12. Loneliness has a certain friend
Jesus comforts
15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 4:15 (KJV)

13. Loneliness has a certain friend
Jesus is coming back for us
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:3 (KJV)

14. Conclusion
5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)