In times past our failure to realize this has hindered our walk of faith. We stumbled around more than we should have because we fragmented the Body of Christ. We divided ourselves up until we forgot that when we’re talking about believers, we’re talking about Jesus; and when we’re talking about Him, we’re talking about the whole Church. He’s the Head and we’re the body.
You can’t separate a head from a body and expect it to keep functioning. For life to keep flowing, the two have to be united. That’s why no one ever says when I walk into a room, “Here comes Kenneth and his body.” They just say, “There’s Kenneth,” because my head and my body are one.
The same is true spiritually with the Body of Christ. As Jesus said in John 17:23, we’re one with Jesus and with each other just as Jesus and the Father are one. Jesus is in us, God is in Him, and we’re in God “made perfect in one.”
It’s time we renewed our minds to this and stopped separating ourselves from each other. We need one another! We have to have one another to walk “in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God” (Ephesians 4:13).
There’s too much at stake here for us to let petty doctrinal differences and offenses drive us apart. Believing God for the fullness of the manifestation of God’s power among us is too important! It’s worth more than anything else in the world, and the only way we’re going to have it is by working together in unity—by clinging to each other in love (faith works by love), praying for each other and releasing our faith on each other’s behalf.
Do you know what happens when we come together like that? We become more than just individual Christians wandering around on the field of life trying to do something for God. We become a faith team! We become a spiritual version of that wild bunch of winners I played football with in high school.
That’s the kind of team God is putting together in these last days before Jesus returns. It’s a team of believers who absolutely love God, love each other and love living by faith in God’s WORD. It’s a team of believers who are in this for keeps and who are 100 percent committed to running roughshod over the devil.
It’s a God-squad of people like you and me who were born again to walk in the footsteps of Abraham’s faith! V
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