Dear Saints,

After going through some scriptures about unity, I think we should join in prayer about receiving the spirit of unity for this body of believers.

"to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does the work."

Ephesians 4:12-16

Meditate on that scripture, it is really coming alive to me. The whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, that is you and me. Growing and building in love, as each part does the work.

Murray

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Murray Beninger

Praise God Murray. Only God could do this. In our fumbled attempts, we often get angry trying to do the very thing we're getting angry at and spoil the whole thing and fumble the ball completely.

Yes, I will join you in this prayer and all others. The outpouring came when they were "all together in one accord" ... and Benjamin's thread showed us we needn't give up discernment or doctrinal purity to have this Unity. Lord Bless you both.
Thank you for pointing the us to the real solution.

Amen Brother
Prayer is a powerful thing
Let us not post out of our idea our words
But in much prayer before posting
prayerful in asking Gods wisdom power
what a wonderful thing
Let be doers of the word
Brother I will pray long with you on this

In his love
charlene

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charlene

Amen brother Murray. But don't be discoureged if the spirit of unity for this body of believers does not come. The lord Jesus prayed this prayer once in jhon 17:21-22. Look what has happend. Is ther any unison? Are they all in one accord? Do they all preach the same thing? Let's pray that God would operate a revival and ronvict sects of the grave sin of deviding God's Holly Church, his bride.

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Samuel

let us pray for each other,,,, if we disagree
let us pray for each more and more
let us be in much prayer

in his love
charlene

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charlene

Yes, I will join this and expand my prayers for this to the worldwide Church.

Thank you Lord for your grace and mercy that I so need. I pray for your Holy Spirit to take charge of the body of believers and their everything and bring the Love and Unity that we all so desperately need. Amen

Will continue to pray...

There was a participant in these forums, brother [url=https://www.sermonindex.net/userinfo.php?uid=573]Lars[/url] from Sweden, who had a signature which I often couldn't understood. I think I am trying to understand a bit now what was said there:

Church - a definition:
[b]Enough brokenness gathered in one place[/b] for Life to find an entry for ministry.

Brother Kire, this is so like GOD.

I just came off of reading worm's post and I felt so broken inside I didn't know which way to turn. I was broken because he was broken. So I just hit the SI Sign on top of the page as usual to return to the Homepage and their was T. A. Sparks looking at me on the homepage photos.
Most times when my attention is "drawn" there, it's someone who would speak to my heart at that very moment.

I don't take 'ANYTHING' as coincidence, because GOD is so Omniscient and all that I don't think HE wastes a mila-second in anything that happens around HIS children, most especially. But I also feel that is the case for all of His creation and when they meet Him, they'll know it either in a marvelous way or a dreadful way, that HE was "always" constantly speaking.

Anyhow, I found SI looking for Sparks and then you mention brother Lars, so I went to his profile to see where he went and found this thread ... and all of this happening within seconds.

https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=3767&forum=34&start=0&viewmode=flat&order=0


GOD works in less than mila-seconds because of His omnipotence and all, but HE slows things down a tad for us to catch on, if we're even listening or trying to see HIM in everything.

Well, we're "following the Lamb" and that was a great song I heard but I never heard it again.
Someday I'll go digging for it. John 10.

He's working all of this out. He's bringing His elect out of their 6 senses to look upon Him in this dark and evil world. To exist and work here to rescue those in darkness, yet still have our feet seated in Heavenly places, beyond time and space.

Our temptation is to just shut ourselves in with HIM alone, like protestant Monks, because the nitty gritty of humans who are suppose to carry His likeness but can't fully yet, don't get along ... so they want to go hide in some monestary type state ... but we're not called to do that .... we're called to make every effort to be ONE BODY and not seperatists and to love in action-wise.

We're suppose to deal patiently with those who are weak and hurting in The Body, even if their weaknesses are repulsive to us. Snatching them out of the fire as Jude said.

I'm broken for the lost, but my biggest burden are for the ones in the Body that are injured, even if the injury is from their own doings.

I'm human too as are the rest of us, that goes without saying, so we can't do this "Walk" without His Agape Love being infused into us by our "searching Him out". There's no other way to be "divine" so to speak.

We're all growing together ... but we can't grow unless we see HIS Hand in everything around us --- and it's all to grow us into His Image ... [b]everything[/b].
Even a bird that flys past our window as we're looking out at our car ... everything is in His control and speaking constantly. The bird is just to get our attention so we'll ask, "What Lord ?"

I don't think one of us are here except by divine appointment ... and just to bring us into HIS Image. Period. The workings out of The Body is to that aim.

LORD Bless All of us to see Him in every single thing we see & hear and every single person we meet. Only by Love will we be transformed.


Alleluia to our LAMB. The Great Shepherd of His Sheep.

Already been praying for unity here... and now I can join in with you all!

Krispy