New Beginnings

From Isolation to Community

For many years I walked a path of isolation — stripped of the familiar, separated from the world’s rhythm, and held in God’s refining fire. It was a long hidden season where He undid what was false and taught me to live by His voice alone.

But isolation was never the end of the story. It was preparation. There comes a moment when you must choose where you stand. The landlords of the world — with their demands and boundaries — pressed in. Yet that door was never meant to remain open.

Closing the gate was more than a practical choice; it was a declaration. A line drawn between the world’s claims and God’s Kingdom. A refusal to live under instability, control, or compromise.

“Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors,that the King of glory may come in.” (Psalm 24:7)

In that act, isolation was no longer emptiness — it became consecration. The space within the gate was marked holy, set apart, belonging only to Him.

And from this place of holiness, the seed of community begins to grow. What God did in solitude becomes the foundation for gathering. The very place where I was emptied is the place where His vision of fullness takes root: a people gathered, not scattered; living in holiness, not striving in the world; building together what no one could build alone.

“I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them back to their fold; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.” (Jeremiah 23:3)

Closing the gate to the world was not an ending. It was the beginning of Kingdom ground — and the threshold into holy community.