Sept. 18, 2025
Isolation
What happens to our hearts when we start pulling away from others? In today’s episode, hosts Richelle Alessi invite us to reflect on the theme of isolation, drawing inspiration from Proverbs 18:1. Together, we’ll explore why it’s so easy to distance ourselves—whether out of busyness, hurt, or the desire to go our own way—and what we might be missing when we choose solitude over community. We’ll see how God designed us for meaningful relationships, the importance of sound judgment from trusted voices, and how healthy friendships and Christian fellowship can keep us anchored in love and truth.
Let’s join together as a community in prayer and devotion, seeking the courage to step out of isolation and into the supportive embrace of genuine connection.
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You're listening to My Morning Devotional podcast, episode 1359. Today's TiVo is called Isolation. Hey there. We're the Alessies, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida. And if you're like us, when days get busy and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time.
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That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My Morning Devotional Podcast. Good morning everybody and happy Thursday.
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My name is Rachelle Alessi and I've been with you this week. And we have two more days together. And I really hope that this week has blessed you. Yesterday I mentioned to please share how this entire month has spoken to you so far. So please do. We want to read your comments. We want to know which proverb has challenged you the most. And we just, we want to know we're doing this together. And so I also encourage you to go back and read the entire chapter. We're taking one to two verses of an entire chapter that could have 31 verses. So imagine how much more gold there is in all of these chapters.
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So after you listen to this, if you haven't yet go back and even if it's listening to it, you don't have to read it. Maybe put it in your car or. Yes, open up your Bible and read the entire chapter. You'll see how much the Lord can speak to you through these proverbs. Today I'm
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1. And it says, whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire.
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He breaks out against all sound judgment. This proverb is so important. And then again, this is how the proverb
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1. These proverbs don't play. They literally go straight to what's so important. And I, I love this because we all have had times in our lives where we're a little prone to isolating.
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And there could be many reasons why we try to isolate. We try to isolate because we want to hide something, because we don't feel good about something, because we're too busy. And we feel like we don't have the time for things. And so naturally that also creates isolation. Or we just, we don't want people to have an opinion on what we're doing. We just want to go act, do what we want. We don't want accountability. And then we isolate. But it says that when we isolate, we break out against all sound judgment. The Lord is telling us here how important it is for Us to be in community every single day because we cannot do life alone.
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When we isolate, we seek our own desire. When we isolate and we have no sound judgment, there's nobody around to honestly tell us, hey, that's not good. We let ourselves become our own direction. We put ourself in a place where we're seeking just what we want because we're not being held accountable to what we're doing. And that might be good for a season, but honestly, later on, what that will create in your heart is loneliness. Sometimes isolation starts from a place I want to isolate because I don't want people involved in this area. But later on, when you're done with that, it has created loneliness. What it also creates, it breaks relationships. Then you haven't had the time to put in into a relationship and you wonder why everybody has great relationships or they have moved on from things and you still haven't.
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Because isolating ourselves when we do that, there's no way you can still build relationships with people that way. You're not giving people your 100, you're not being honest with what's going on.
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And guys, isolation is the place where the enemy wants us all to be. Because that is the place where we will be the most miserable. But that's also the place when he can lie to us the most. Because we don't have, like this verse says sound judgment to tell us, hey, that is not from God. And you start to believe so many lies. And later you realize, I've been living in isolation and not a correct world for the last couple of months.
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I have not let the right voices in my life speak to me, build me up, challenge me, or even me pour into the right relationships, build the right friendships with people. And this even goes for some of us who are married or not. We can still create isolation in our hearts if we are not in constant communication with the people we love the most. If we're not being fully open and sharing what we're truly going through, not because we just want to share and say all of our business, but because we truly need wisdom. We truly need people. God created us and put us on this earth to do life with each other.
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So do not let the enemy tell you or do not believe the lie that you don't need anybody or that you don't need counsel, that you will figure out on your own that God will speak to me. And yes, God will speak to you.
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God wants to speak to you. But even in that moment, sometimes we need other people to confirm that God did Speak to us as we're learning this and we're doing this life with God. There are going to be moments where we are say, was that God was not, Was that not God? And the right person can come and help you discern, yes, that was God's voice, or no, that was not God's voice. And let me show you why. They have years in this walk that maybe we don't.
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And they can help us and say, learn this, this is how God works. And now next time, you know, if you heard of God properly, we need people in our lives, but we need the right people in our lives. And I will also say, if there are people in your lives that are pushing you to isolation, just consider that relationship. You don't want people in your life that are trying to isolate you from the right things, from the right people. That's not a good thing either.
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You need community, you need church, you need Christian friends, healthy friends, healthy people around you that can challenge you and be the sound judgment that you need. Because there's safety in that.
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There are the people that will tell you, hey, what you're doing is not right.
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Let me help you get it right. Not let me shame you, Let me help you get this right. Let's get on a Bible command.
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Let's tackle this. So find the right community, find a healthy friendships and do not isolate. Because I promise you that's not what the Lord wants from you. The Lord wants you to be healthy and whole and that comes through also relationships. Maybe there are people that the Lord is waiting to use in your life for them to bless you, you and help you. So you just need to step out and say, I'm not going to let myself be isolated anymore or let others isolate me from the right things. So let's pray. Father, I thank you once again for a beautiful day. And I pray right now that if there is an area of our life that we're isolating, I pray that you will bring it to the front and show us what that is. And I pray that we will just confess that we will go to the right, right people, Lord, and that we would not let isolation rule our lives. That we will be strong and know that there is somebody out there that can help us, that you can bring blessings through other people and that there are people that are waiting to love us and to help us. Not to shame us, but provide godly counsel. And that through that relationship we can be safe, we can be stronger and we can be better.
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In Jesus name we pray. Amen. So there you have it. Your 5 minute daily dose of Heaven. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We pray these devotionals empower you to take on your day. If you found value in this devotional, share it with a friend, leave a comment or review for us on the app you're using right now.
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Until tomorrow. We pray that your latte is strong, but your love for Jesus is stronger.
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You're listening to My Morning Devotional podcast, episode 1359. Today's TiVo is called Isolation. Hey there. We're the Alessies, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida. And if you're like us, when days get busy and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time.
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That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My Morning Devotional Podcast. Good morning everybody and happy Thursday.
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My name is Rachelle Alessi and I've been with you this week. And we have two more days together. And I really hope that this week has blessed you. Yesterday I mentioned to please share how this entire month has spoken to you so far. So please do. We want to read your comments. We want to know which proverb has challenged you the most. And we just, we want to know we're doing this together. And so I also encourage you to go back and read the entire chapter. We're taking one to two verses of an entire chapter that could have 31 verses. So imagine how much more gold there is in all of these chapters.
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So after you listen to this, if you haven't yet go back and even if it's listening to it, you don't have to read it. Maybe put it in your car or. Yes, open up your Bible and read the entire chapter. You'll see how much the Lord can speak to you through these proverbs. Today I'm
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