Loneliness Can't Control Your Singleness!

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D A U T R Daughter. Welcome back to another episode of Daughter. If you're new here, hi, I'm your host. My name is Cecily. I'm so glad that you've joined us. This is really just a space to let people know how much they're loved and they're chosen and they're worthy. And for so long in my walk with Christ, like I just did not know what it meant to be a daughter of the king. And the Lord, in the last like two years of my life, has really established what that means. And I really believe He's coming back for a generation of women who know their identity and know their authority as being a daughter. And that's really what the space is is just creating conversation and whatever the Lord wants to do. And today we're talking about something kind of like really exciting, but also a little scary. Because I was like, God, are you sure I'm ready to talk about this? And we're talking about loneliness and we're talking about singleness and how those two things kind of coincide. And if you're watching today, uh yeah, the crib is more set up. If you're not watching, you're probably like, girl, what are you talking about? I moved about like a month and a half ago. And if you've watched any of the daughter videos, you know that my setup has been different pretty much every time because when I started this, it was a very hectic time in life, and I was like moving, and I was in a sublet, and then I was all over the place. Um, but now my apartment is finally coming together. Yay! She looks so much cuter. I'm so happy to be here. I love it. Today I'm actually filming on my phone because my camera was causing me issues, it was causing me mad issues. I cannot figure out why it's not working. So if you're like, girl, where are you looking all the time? I'm like not used to looking at like a phone. Like, usually I look at the monitor, anyways. That's kind of besides the point. Um, we're gonna pray and then I'm gonna start with the story of a time I went to London, and the Lord just used that to unveil quite a few things, which is really crazy, and this was not that long ago. So let's pray and get into it. Um, dear Lord, I thank you so much for the space, God. I thank you for your daughters, Lord. I thank you that when the world tells us that we're one thing, that you tell us something completely opposite, Lord, that we're worthy, that we're chosen, that we're love, God. I pray for every single person that is just seeking idols and seeking things of this world instead of coming to you with their heart, Lord. I just pray that today you will expose any idols, God. You will expose any places that you are trying to come into your daughter's hearts, God. That, yeah, just any areas that are they're like filling up their time, filling up their resources, filling up anything that is not of you, God, that you will break it off in the mighty name of Jesus to know that only you can fill our hearts, Lord, completely. It is only ever going to be your love that will fill every single thing, Lord. And I pray over every single person that is feeling lonely, every single person that is struggling in their singleness, God, that they will just redirect their eyes back to you, Jesus, because you tell us that everything we have is in your presence. You tell us that there is nothing that you leave and nothing that we lack, God. If we have you, we have everything. We don't lack anything, God. So I just break off any lie of the enemy that is telling someone that, yeah, just like they're lonely or they're depressed or they need something else, God. Fullness is with you, God. Like there is nothing else, Lord. I just even pray against contentment too, God, of just um, and coveting as well, Lord, of just like seeing other people on social media and seeing what another Christian has or whatever it may be, God, like that we'll just lay down everything today, God, and let you completely fill our hearts, wherever that means for our season, whatever that means um for the phase of life we're walking in, God, that you will completely show us your full joy. Lord, you tell us in Paul tells us that we have the ability to have full peace and full contentment in every situation, God, that we can we're able to have joy, Lord. So I just pray that there will be a fresh joy in whatever season um yeah, your daughters are just walking through, Lord. So I pray this all in the name of Jesus. And I also just pray that like you will open up every heart and ear, Lord, if there's any resistance in this message, God, that um, yeah, I just plead the blood of Jesus over it, God. Please the blood of Jesus over every any resistance, Lord. Um, and also that you will get to the root, Lord, of whatever it is that someone is struggling with, God, that it won't be just like a superficial fix, Lord, but you will truly minister to the root, God, and you will take out um, yeah, whatever needs to be taken out, Lord, and that we'll be people who stick with you through the process, that it might not always be easy, God, but you're gonna walk us through, Lord, that that is a promise that you are with us when we walk through the waters, God, that you order our steps, Lord. Um, yeah, that you walk hand in hand with us, Lord, through the darkest valleys, Lord. So I just pray that there will be a fresh peace and joy that is birthed through this episode. And I pray this all in the name of Jesus. Amen. Yeah, so we're talking about singleness and loneliness, and these are two things that I have definitely struggled with. And when the Lord originally brought up loneliness to me, I just wasn't sure in what context he wanted me to speak on. But I really believe it is coming from a context of being single. And I think it's also really important, like hearing this message also from someone who's single. I'm also single, I've been single now for probably like five years. And if you would have told me three years ago when I like really dedicated my life to the Lord that I would still been single now, I would have been like, God, what the heck are we talking about? But throughout these last three years, like he has really shown me just so many areas of my heart, and now I'm so thankful for my singleness. But I think a lot of the times, especially in the context of the church, we hear so many women that are married or that are in relationships, they're like, Oh, my time came and my time came, you just have to wait it out. And as much as that is like super beneficial, and I'm very grateful for the women who have gone before me and who encouraged me in the same season that I'm walking through. I think it's also important of like hearing it from someone who's also single, who's walking through the exact same thing. And kind of starting back a couple of months ago, or really almost a year ago now, back in May of last year, like I went through such a difficult season of loneliness. And mind you, this had not been the only time that I was lonely in my life. Like, loneliness had followed me so many times in my life, and I was always one of those people of like I felt this deep, deep inner loneliness. It didn't matter how many people I was around, I always felt lonely, and I always felt like I was missing something, and I tried to cover it up with relationship after relationship, with alcohol, with smoking, like whatever it was. I tried to cover it up and it just never worked. And even when I was in relationships, like I still felt this deep inner loneliness. And when I gave my life to Christ, like two and a half years ago, I had not felt that loneliness really since the May, May that like of last year, when it really came back with the vengeance, and I was like, God, what is going on? Like, I really haven't felt lonely. I felt like you've been with me in all of these things, and I just got hit with this crazy loneliness that I wasn't prepared for. That I was like, God, what the heck are we doing? And this inner loneliness, I felt like it followed me every single day. Like, I just woke up crying every single day. Mind you, I also lived alone, so it was really, really difficult for me to also be alone because I just felt empty. I felt like I was empty inside. And in the midst of feeling so empty, I was chasing after so many things. And mind you, at this point in my life, like I really wasn't chasing after boys all that much, like at all, really. Like the Lord had just kind of shut the dating door in my life. He asked me to give up guys like about a year prior, and I was like, okay, cool, no problem, I'll do that. And I just gave pretty much all guys up. But at this point, I was trying to fill my schedule packed to the brim. Like the Lord was telling me to rest, and I was like, no, I will not rest. I will not sit in silence, I have to go out, I have to do this. I was like filling my schedule up to the point of like, girl, you need to sit down. And it didn't matter what it was, like, I was just gonna fill my schedule with it because I was trying to cover up the band-aid. And mind you, uh a couple months go by, and then the Lord decides to bring someone into my life. I hadn't talked to someone in probably three years, it'd been a really long time since I talked to somebody, and this talking phase was very short, but the Lord very much brought him in to deal with some things that needed to be dealt with in me. And this was still at the point where I'm trying to fill my schedule, fill my schedule, fill my schedule. And for me personally, like I never really wanted a relationship all that bad unless I really felt lonely. Like the only times I'd ever been in relationships was when I was like at my loneliness, um, at my lowest point in loneliness. And I was really kind of at that point um when God brought someone in. And so we brought someone in for a little bit and it didn't fix it. And I was like, wow, like God, this is crazy. Because I know I knew when I was living in the world, like I was trying to cover it up, but I didn't realize even with walking, walking with you now, like I still don't realize how much I actually was trying to cover up this wound of feeling loneliness with somebody else. And when the Lord removed that person from my life, he was like, Are you finally ready to deal with this loneliness? And I was like, Okay, God, I'm ready. And it's time to deal with this loneliness. And so what God did for me was just like fill my heart, and he just kept filling my heart and filling my heart, and it was just like, I need you to, I need to have your full attention. I need you to let me consume every single part of your heart, and this loneliness will go away. But like, until you believe that I'm with you, until you believe that I'm with you in every single moment, in every single situation, like you're not gonna that loneliness is not gonna go anywhere. And the Lord kind of just kept ministering to me, to my heart, and it took a couple of months, and he kept ministering and ministering and ministering, and finally I got to this point of like, okay, God, I trust you, and I believe that you're always with me, but I still felt lonely. And this is kind of now about the time where God called me to London, and it was very confusing because I was traveling a lot. That was also something I was doing to cover up the loneliness feeling. I thought that catching flights was gonna fix it, it didn't, and God told me to stop traveling, so he did, and finally he called me to London, and I was like, God, I thought you told me to stop traveling. Like, what are we doing here? And I was like, What am I even going to London for? I have no idea. Like, I have no reason to be in London, nothing. And he's like, You need to go to London. And I just kind of stepped out in faith and I walked in faith, and there was like many confirmations along the way that I had to go to London. So I ended up booking a flight. The day I booked my flight, also, mind you, when God tells you to go somewhere, go, it does not matter what it may look like. You just go and step out in faith because He'll provide everything that you need. At this time in my life, he had cut my finances in half. I did not have the money to book a $1,400 flight to London. But the day I was like, okay, God, I'm gonna go, I stepped out in faith. He literally gave me a check that was like the exact amount of money to be able to go. And my I had just work was so slow. I was like, God, this is actually insane. So if God is calling you to do something, go because He will provide every single thing that you need. Um, but yeah, so I I ended up going to London. I was like, hey, God, I'm just gonna, whatever you want to do on this trip, like I'm gonna trust you and we're gonna go. And London, I'd been there once before, like three years before. And when I went to London the first time, that was I was so lonely. And this is before I found Jesus. And this was like a point in my life where I was crying every single day. I was so depressed. I had no hope. I had no faith. I was putting all of my um like everything I wanted was like of the world, and I was drowning in eating disorders and all of these things. And God took me to London, and the second I stepped into London, the loneliness left me. And it was like I didn't feel lonely at all. And I was like, what is going on? And I didn't even really notice, to be honest with you, until the trip was over. And the Lord was just with me. I felt like even though I was on the other side of the world, like he was showing me how healed I really was, and he was like, Sass, I freed you from loneliness, I freed you from the eating disorders. He showed me how much he had truly freed me of. And when I got back on the plane to go to New York, like it was well, that was really such a special trip. I feel like I'm not explaining that all that well. That was such a special trip. God showed me, like, literally how healed I was, y'all. Like, when I tell you, he took me to like multiple restaurants, he took me to multiple corners that I had gone to the first time and was just like, look at where you were three years ago. When he brought me back to very vivid images, even I remember going to a restaurant and I refused to get the pancakes because I was drowning in an eating disorder, and I was like, I can't put that in my body, and I have to model and I have to look at like amazing for fashion week, and I refused to do it. And I went there and I didn't think twice about ordering it. And the second the food came out, and God was like, You wouldn't even order that a couple years ago, and look now, like you're not even thinking about it. And it was such a special moment of healing, and it was just such a beautiful trip. So when I stepped back onto the plane going back to New York, I got hit with that loneliness again. And I'm like, God, what the heck is going on? Like for the last week, I didn't feel lonely at all, and I was literally by myself. Now I'm back in New York and I'm just hit with this loneliness. I'm like, what is going on? And you know what the Lord taught me in that moment? He was like, You're not fighting your own loneliness, you're actually fighting the principality of New York. And if you did not know, there is principalities based on the land that you are in that you can fight against. So, like, if you live in a certain place and like whatever's going on in that place, like that might affect you. And God had shown me, and he was just like, Ses, like, you're actually not as lonely as you thought you were. Like, I healed you, I healed you of this loneliness actually a really long time ago. But you were choosing to believe the lies of the enemy, and you were choosing to believe that I am not as powerful as you think as the enemy. Yeah, I'm not as powerful as the enemy. And he was really showing me, like, because God had told me like I was healed from this loneliness, but I just like didn't believe it because I still felt lonely. And he was just really taught me the importance of like says you need to cling to scripture. It doesn't matter how you're feeling, it matters what the word says. And when I tell you that I freed you from loneliness, I freed you from loneliness, and he did just that, and he literally had to take me across the world, bring me back to a place where I really was drowning in lonely loneliness to then bring me back to New York to show me that I wasn't lonely at all. I was just believing the lies of the enemy. And I wasted, y'all, I wasted so much time drowning in my loneliness and not walking forward in the plan that the Lord had for me because I was just wasting time in this loneliness, trying to avoid whatever the whatever, so many things. Like I'm trying to avoid everything, and I'm trying to avoid spending time with God. I'm trying to avoid stepping into my true calling because I'm just trying to fill this void that I feel. And I think the enemy does this so much to us, and we don't even realize, like, the Lord may set you free for some from something, but you don't believe it in your own mind. And it takes time to break off these strongholds and break off these lies that you believed about yourself your entire life. But the power of God is so much greater. He gives you everything you need to overcome the lies and the strongholds. If you truly believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, if you believe that He is the one that conquered everything on the cross, then you get to walk forward in that. You don't have to believe the lies of the enemy. But so many of us get stuck in this moment and in our feelings. And it's like, well, how do we feel? Okay, but that doesn't align with the word of God, so then you have to throw it out. And it's not saying that your feelings aren't valid. The Lord created our feelings and they're so special and they're so beautiful. But at the same time, if they do not align with the word of God, then what's the disconnect? What are you gonna believe? Your feelings, you're gonna believe the truth of God. And yeah, like now I gotta want to tie this into the scriptures that the Lord gave me, but I just wanted to paint that picture of like, man, how many of us are truly wasting time in our singleness because we are so consumed with what we are feeling, we're so consumed with what we can't see, we're so consumed with so many other things when God's trying to call you into something else, but we're just so distracted and we're so focused on other things. And the first verse that the Lord led me to when it came to singleness is Psalms uh 103, 15 through 21. As for a man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field. When the wind passes over it, it vanishes, and its place is no longer known. But from eternity to eternity, the Lord's faithful love is towards those who fear him, and righteousness towards the grandchildren of those who keep his covenant, and remember to observe his presence, his precepts. The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and all his kingdom rules over the earth. Bless the Lord and all his angels of his strength who do his word, obey his commands. Bless the Lord, all his armies, his servants who will do his will. Bless the Lord all his works, and in all places where he rules, my soul bless the Lord. And the part that really stuck out to me was um verse 15, which says, As for a man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower over the field. When the wind passes over it, it vanishes, and it no longer, and its place is no longer known. And that paint's just such a beautiful picture of like how life short this life really is. We get so consumed by the things that we are dealing with, that the things that we're walking through right at this very moment that we forget that eternity is so much greater. Like, eternity is so much longer, y'all. We just get so consumed on what we don't have, and I think especially when it comes to your single season, it's so much shorter than you think it is. You could meet your man's tomorrow. Like, I have no idea. The Lord only He knows, but we spend so much time wasting it, and you only have so much time in your single season that you have two options is you can use all of that time to truly devote yourself to the Lord and do what he wants you to do, or you can spend time wasting it and you can spend time distracting it, you can spend time just like I did, wasting months trying to fill my schedule and fill my schedule until finally I came to the point of breaking five months down the line where the Lord was like, Are you finally ready to deal with this? And I finally said yes, and in such a short amount of time, he did such a rapid transformation to show me such beautiful lessons and things and to show me I wasn't actually lonely. But in that moment, I wanted to waste all of that time. And I just really challenge us to remember like eternity is so much longer, and the goal is not to be satisfied on this earth, and yes, we get full fulfillment in Jesus, and we get so many beautiful things in this life. But the end goal is to be with him in heaven, and you already got that through your salvation, but now every single day you get to work towards that and you get to partner with him, and it's such a beautiful thing. And I just really encourage you to like stop wasting time in your singleness. What is it that the Lord is calling you to cut off in this moment of singleness? For everyone, it can look different. Like for some people, get off the dating apps, for some people, it's stop talking to guys. For some people, it may be not throwing yourself into every single social situation. Like, there are so many ways that we like to distract ourselves. And I really challenge you to just rem really like sit with the Lord and ask him, God, where am I distracting myself? Where am I trying to fill this void? And what is truly going on underneath? Because there's always something deeper. And the beautiful thing about the God that we have is he doesn't just want to like kill the weed, he wants to get to the root. He always wants to get to the root, and that requires time, that requires staying in your word, that requires sticking through when things get hard. Because I'm gonna tell you right now, taking out the root is never easy because you have to reform everything that you've learned over your entire life. But the beauty of God is that he's gonna walk you through it and he's not gonna leave you in the depths, he's not gonna leave you when things get hard, he's gonna keep pushing you forward in such a loving, kind way, and yeah, we just serve such a good God, y'all. And like this is such a beautiful time in your life as well as someone who is single, like you get to undo and you gotta unwork so many parts of your heart that are not Christ-like. Because listen, the goal of marriage is not just to fulfill yourself. We have a very corrupted view of marriage and dating from our society, and it's just like all self-pleasure, and it's all these things when marriage is really dying to yourself and it's coming into agreement with the covenant that we have as being the bride, and Jesus is the bridegroom. Like that, what that's what marriage represents. Everything that the Lord has ever created is to represent a part of our relationship with Him. We're not just married, so we can oh yeah, we're not lonely and all of these things. No, marriage is sacrifice. You have to learn how to lay yourself down and be in covenantal love because that's the love that Jesus did for us on the cross. Everything is always has to be directed back to the cross. I think too, like once you realize how short this life really is, Ephesians 3, verse 8 starts to become a lot more real to you. And kind of context on this is Paul is writing to the Church of Ephesus, and he is telling them kind of like about his call and how beautiful it is, and he presented in such a way of humility. It's not that God needed him to do anything, it's that God called him to do this, and he was willing to step into it. And verse eight says, This sorry, it's loud out here. Verse 8 says, This is the grace that was given to me. Bruh. So y'all, I love in New York and it's crazy over here. Sirens all the time. Verse 8, this is the grace that was given to me, the least of all the saints, to proclaim to the Gentiles the incalculable incalculable riches of Christ, and to shed light for all about the administration of the mysteries hidden for the angels in God who created all things. This is so that God's multifaceted wisdom may be known throughout the church and the rulers and the authorities in heaven. This is according to the eternal purpose accomplished in Christ Jesus in our Lord. In him we have boldness and confidence, access through faith in him. So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are for glory. And I think that this scripture really struck me and it was so beautiful because it's a representation of someone that is able to walk in the calling that God has given them, and he's not wasting time. Paul, when he gave his life to the Lord, was like, okay, God, what do you want me to do? And he did it right away. He did not waste time on things that just do not matter. And there's people right now that I believe that the Lord is calling you to do something, but you've been delaying on doing it. Whether it's you're distracted by something else, whether it's you've been seeking after something that God does not want for you in your life right now, or you're covering up a band aid or whatever it may be, like God is calling you to do something. There's People out here that need to write books. There's people out here that need to lead community groups. There's people out here that need to start evangelizing and going in the streets and telling people about Jesus. Some of you have that call in your life, but you have not been doing it because you have been worried about the things that do not matter. We are created for him. We're created to serve him. We're created to glorify him. Everything is for his purpose. And we just get so caught up in the things that we want. But there's such a beauty in our God because he knows the perfect timing on everything, and you have to trust his perfect timing. Okay, and the final scripture that the Lord led me to was Genesis 2, starting at verse 18. Then the Lord God said, It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him. The Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird in the sky and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called it, a living creature, that was his name. The man gives all the names to the livestock, to the birds and to the sky, and to every wild animal, but for the man no helper was found corresponding to him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to cut to come over the man and he slept. God took out one of his ribs and closed at the flesh. Then the Lord God made the rib that he was taken out from the man and made into woman and brought her to the man. And the man said, This outlast is the bone of my bone and the flesh of my flesh, and this will be called woman. She was taken from man. This is a this is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Both the man and the wife were naked, yet felt no shame. And this is where we get to be filled with hope. There is a reason that you want a relationship. There's a reason that you have this desire is because this is what we are created for. God knows that we're not meant to be alone for too long. And if you have been desiring a relationship, that desire is from him, and it's not a bad thing. And it's such a beautiful thing. But when you're in your season of singleness, is it something that you are worshiping and that you are making an idol? Or is it something that you are laying down every single day and being like, okay, God, this is something that I want and I trust you and I believe that it's gonna come. And in this moment that I can't see it yet, I'm gonna walk fully in the purpose and the calling that you have called for me, that you have set in front of me, because there is something so much greater and there's something that you're going to use and try and teach and minister to my heart in these reasons. And you don't know what the Lord is gonna do in your season of singleness, whether it's ministering to childhood trauma, whether it's ministering to emotional maturity, whether it's touching your family, getting you into ministry. Like there are so many things that the Lord is going to do in this beautiful season that you have, but he needs you and he needs your full attention, and he can't have your attention on someone else right now. And it's all to prepare you to be such a beautiful, strong woman of God and have his design of marriage be unfolding in your life. And it's such a beautiful thing because I believe wholeheartedly that the enemy has tried to take relationships away, especially from this generation. We see it all over the place right now, where it's like people are single for way later in life than it ever used to be. And I believe that God is coming back for a bride where people are in covenant and in relationship with one another, but it takes work and it takes time. And we have to trust and believe that his timing is perfect, that he has that perfect plan for you. And that loneliness, if that relationship that you wanted to come today, it was never gonna fill it for you. It's not gonna fill your loneliness, it's not gonna fill the thing that you're dealing with. That person can't fix it. It is only the love of God. It is being in covenant with Jesus. That is what is going to fix it. It's looking at the cross and seeing what you need to lay down. It's looking at the cross and seeing what areas of your heart you have not let the cross infiltrate because that's what's gonna fix it. You can't bandage up your life with someone else. You can't bandage up your life with distractions, you can't bandage up your life with all of these remedies that we try and make, it's never going to fulfill it. God wants all he's ever wanted from us is our heart. He wants our total heart surrendered to him. And he can do so much with a surrendered heart. There's things he's calling you to do now. And you know what the crazy part is? God will keep waiting. If you just keep delaying, if you keep avoiding the things he's gonna try and fix in your heart, like you're only delaying your own blessing. The purpose isn't to get the blessing, but the purpose is like the Lord's gonna fill your heart in so many beautiful ways. And at the end of however long that's gonna take for you, then he brings someone in beside you, and you guys get to walk together. And it really is such a blessing for the Lord to bring them in at whatever time it's gonna be because you get to be more healed, you get to deal with the trauma, you get to deal with the past, you get to start the ministry, you get to do all of these things, and then God is gonna bring someone beside you. And I also want to be vulnerable with this and say, it's not easy. I'm not gonna act like it's easy. It's really hard to be in the church sometimes when you're the only one single, or it might be the opposite for you. Like I live in New York and I've never experienced anything like this in my life where everybody is single, and I'm talking people who are like 35, 40, everyone is single, and coming into that environment, I lost all hope because I was like, God, where are all their husbands? Why is everybody in here single? What makes me different? Am I gonna have to wait 20 more years? Like, I don't want to wait that long. And it was really hard to let down that desire. It was really, I was really frustrated. I was really hopeless, but it showed me a really big part of my heart that I just did not let the Lord touch it, which was I did not have full fulfillment in him. I didn't have full fulfillment in him being the husband that he is to me. Like he had to really work through that, and he put me in such an interesting environment to show me that my heart was just not in the right place. And I guess I always want to close in prayer for anyone who is, yeah, just like feeling that loneliness, who's feeling hopeless, who is trying to cover up things with bandages, because I really believe that the Lord just wants to minister to you today, and that He just wants to love on you and show you that bridegroom love and show you that like there's a reason that something has not come, whether it's you're not ready, whether it's he's not ready, whether God just wants more time with just you. Like, there's so many things that it could be, but yeah, I just want to want to close in prayer. I think this is a pretty short episode. Um, but yeah, I think it was just a message that needed to be heard by somebody. That's right. Um dear Lord, I thank you just for your presence, God. I thank you that your presence is here right now, Lord. And I thank you for every single person that is listening to this today, God, that whatever needs to stick with them, whatever revelation that you want to give them, Jesus, will just come upon them, God. I pray that your daughters will know that marriage with you is enough, God, and that these desires that you have given us are so beautiful and they're so special. And it's also not something that they have to seek, God. I just believe that we've been seekers for far too long, Lord, and you're asking us to seek after you today. God, I believe that you're asking us to seek after you wholeheartedly, Jesus, that it's always been about a full surrender to you, God. And yeah, I just pray over a generation that has been bound by lies. I pray over a generation that has seen so many false images of what it means to be loved, God, and what it means to be in covenantal love, Lord, that it's meant for ourselves, that it's meant for filling us up, God. It's not, it's meant to show more of the love of Jesus. Lord, I pray that you would just break up every single lie of what marriage is supposed to be. And yeah, God, I even just pray over, I don't know, I'm seeing like an image of someone in their bed, Lord, just like sobbing, and I'm seeing your arms wrap around them, God. I pray that your daughter will know that even in the moments that she's alone, you are with her. God, you passed through the waters and you are with us. You never leave us, Lord. You formed us in our mother's wombs. God, there is never a moment that we have to feel lonely because you are there. You've always been there. The moments where we can't see it, the moments where we don't believe it, the moments where we're scared, excited, happy, like Lord, you're there with every single thing that we do, God. You walk before us, you walk behind us, you walk beside us, Jesus. So Lord, I pray today that every altar is smashed, and we'll walk forward knowing that you are with us. Walk forward knowing that we get to live in the fullness of the gospel. That you won, that everything was won on the cross, Jesus. Lord, I pray that you will magnify the cross in our lives today, God. Magnify your love in our lives today, God. Lord, I just plead the blood of Jesus over every single person that listened today, God. Touch their hearts, minister to their hearts today, God. And yeah, Lord, just every person that is even like implanted with a desire, Jesus. I pray that they will walk forward and stop wasting time, God. This life is so short, it's nothing but a vapor. But we get eternity with you. We get eternity to walk with you, Jesus. We are working for the riches of heaven. Lord, let that always be the goal. Is to please you, is to serve you, is to worship you, is to honor you with every single thing that we do. So pray this all in the name of Jesus. Amen. Love you guys. Bye.