Park Place Community Church

Despair, look it up in the dictionary, it means the complete loss or absence of hope. That's when you get to the end of yourselves and you say, man, not even God can handle this. And you just go down this spiral into despair, complete loss or absence of hope. Here's some signs that you've headed in that direction. Isolation, you isolate yourself. When you're in despair, you tend to kind of pull back. You don't want to be around people. You isolate yourself. Another one is you have conflict with people that you love. That all of a sudden people that you've always loved, all of a sudden little things become big things. And you start having conflicts with people that you love. And then you have diminished or non-existent fellowship of God. When you're in despair, you isolate yourself not only from people, but from God. You have this lack of fellowship with God.