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Father I thank you http://youtu.be/FaUbFpZ8tnU Father I thank You For all that You've done You gave Your Son freely for me And I praise You for calling me Drawing me near Out of blindness You caused me to see Spirit of life You are God's holy fire You've kindled my heart with Your blaze And I know You're refining me Changing my life And by faith You're revealing Your ways Jesus I need You As Lord of my life I give all I have unto You Lord I want to come Under Your heavenly hand And to praise You in all that I do ~ Steve Stewart

I believe I have. Recently a few weeks ago while I was trying to sleep. And yeah, don't know how to describe it but some moving/hovering in my heart

Hats off to you Shiloh357. This is the first time that I've heard of a person that thought and acted like that through his 20s up till your age. It is really God giving you the grace so far. Praise God

You are incorrect in your evaluation of my post. I never said I didn't know loneliness, I said I don't know what it is like to not to have a wife. A person can be in the middle of a million people and still feel loneliness. Having a relationship does not equate to not being lonely. My sister has a husband and kids but she told me not long ago that she is lonely. She asked me if I was. I told her that I wasn't lonely any more - yet I am single and have no kids. There are indeed some that are single that aren't lonely, but majority of people that are single and looking for a mate or have given up looking for one are lonely. I will copy my reply to onelight below: Yes, I misread your post. Forgive me. Its true that a person can be lonely even in a relationship. But it does help a great deal having a significant other. Having no one is so much worse off (now I'm not talking about a case where the significant other is a terrible bully/abuser) Sorry for the 'mini hijack of the thread' kronborg. Thank you ncn (Nigel) for your beautiful testimony

You are incorrect in your evaluation of my post. I never said I didn't know loneliness, I said I don't know what it is like to not to have a wife. A person can be in the middle of a million people and still feel loneliness. Having a relationship does not equate to not being lonely. Yes, I misread your post. Forgive me. Its true that a person can be lonely even in a relationship. But it does help a great deal having a significant other. Having no one is so much worse off (now I'm not talking about a case where the significant other is a terrible bully/abuser)

I have had only time to glance through the thread (read the short replies only) and will read it in more detail later but just wanted to address this post. Onelight, You said that you are on the opposite side--well, that's likely because you have never felt how bad loneliness can be. The feeling of loneliness can be so overwhelming and actually kills more people than smoking does. I know because that was 1 of my spiritual warfare where the devil would heighten my loneliness so bad that I could almost not take it if not for God sustaining me. It was a fight and still a fight. Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD.

One thing about satan's lies is that satan will CONDEMN you while the Holy Spirit CONVICTS you and gives you HOPE. So that's 1 way of differentiating between satan and the Holy Spirit. Satan can instill all types of lies from anxiety to depression to anger to fear to loneliness. The list is a long one. The bible tells us to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5)

praying that this will stop.