Jim Bakker Show - Loneliness - Pastor Jim Bakker
Aired: 2017-12-04
Duration: 05:16


=== Pain Of Loneliness In Prison (05:04) ===

[00:00:00]  But you know, I told you that story earlier, Sue, when you were singing of how this old people's choir came to the prison one Christmas, and they sang, I'll be home for Christmas.
[00:00:18]  I saw inmates crying because they would never be home.
[00:00:24]  They were lifers.
[00:00:26]  The pain of prison has never left me.
[00:00:30]  I don't think it's going to leave me till heaven.
[00:00:33]  It's so etched in my heart.
[00:00:38]  But the good thing is just like your house.
[00:00:44]  You can feel for that person who's out of their house, who's lost their home.
[00:00:50]  People just say, well, the storm's gone.
[00:00:53]  The flood's gone.
[00:00:55]  But in Houston, nobody's hardly back in their houses yet.
[00:01:00]  And you're working fast.
[00:01:02]  You've got friends helping now.
[00:01:04]  You, Mary Ann Markarian, the Lord.
[00:01:07]  A daughter, yes.
[00:01:09]  So the pain, the loneliness of pain.
[00:01:19]  Give me that book right there.
[00:01:21]  There's ten books that came to me in prison.
[00:01:25]  This is one of them.
[00:01:26]  You see, it's a mass now.
[00:01:28]  Through the wilderness of loneliness.
[00:01:32]  Don't try to buy it.
[00:01:34]  It's out of print.
[00:01:36]  You know what's the saddest story about this book?
[00:01:38]  I'm going to tell it.
[00:01:41]  This man, he fell off a mountain.
[00:01:43]  He was a guide, a guide in the mountains, a wilderness guide.
[00:01:48]  He fell and broke his spine somehow, and the pain never left him.
[00:01:54]  And his wife divorced him because she couldn't live with this pain in him.
[00:02:02]  So the publishers, when they found out that he had gotten a divorce, it was a Christian publisher, so they couldn't have a divorced author.
[00:02:15]  So they pulled every one of these books off the store shelves.
[00:02:21]  I want to read just a little bit.
[00:02:23]  The pain of loneliness is one way in which God gets our attention.
[00:02:27]  So see what God wants to teach you through it.
[00:02:32]  When I reached page 23 in my prison cell, the times I was saying, God, where are you?
[00:02:41]  Have you left me?
[00:02:46]  It's like everybody walked away.
[00:02:50]  When I was on top, everybody came in.
[00:02:55]  He says in here, a friend comes in when the world goes out.
[00:03:02]  I didn't lose any friends when I went to prison.
[00:03:05]  I found out who they were, though.
[00:03:08]  I want you to listen to something.
[00:03:10]  Tim Hansel wrote this book.
[00:03:15]  One of the top 10 books in my life.
[00:03:20]  He kept journal because he fell off a mountain.
[00:03:22]  He was living in constant pain.
[00:03:27]  And this is from his journal.
[00:03:30]  You know, they say misery loves company.
[00:03:34]  Loneliness.
[00:03:35]  Do you know the solution to loneliness?
[00:03:38]  Find another lonely person and get together and start talking.
[00:03:44]  A real friend sticks closer than a brother.
[00:03:49]  God says a friend loves at all times, but a brother is born For adversity, or, as I say, trouble, warfare, or loneliness.
[00:04:04]  That's the kind of friends I want.
[00:04:06]  I want friends that come in when the world goes out.
[00:04:10]  Listen to this from Tim Hansel's journal.
[00:04:16]  I'm reading this in my prison cell, Mondo.
[00:04:18]  Think of that.
[00:04:20]  The loneliness was so bad tonight that it sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
[00:04:28]  It was so intense it felt like it could peel the paint off the wall.
[00:04:35]  Have you ever been that lonely?
[00:04:39]  I have.
[00:04:42]  Five years locked up.
[00:04:46]  Don't feel sorry for me.
[00:04:48]  I got to know Christ in the intimacy of the wilderness.

=== God's Bond (00:26) ===

[00:04:54]  And God said, I brought you here, Jim, not to punish you.
[00:04:58]  I did that on the cross.
[00:05:00]  I got even on the cross.
[00:05:02]  I brought you here to get to know me.
[00:05:06]  And I created and I felt and he gave me a bond with him that has never left me.
[00:05:14]  He did not walk away.