December 16, 2023… Genuine Fellowship …

December 16, 2023… Genuine Fellowship  …    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Christen Ball and Galen Crew singing  … Fellowship Uninterrupted …  Poignantly singing of how we Christians should desire to live in uninterrupted fellowship.  

Genuine fellowship in Christ's love ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Acts 2:42 [NLT] … 

42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper[, and to prayer. 

… Luke documents the coming together of new believers in fellowship  to form the early Church.

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Acts 2:38-47  … USE THIS LINK …  

… The new believers, at Pentecost and onward, came together in community to meet each other’s needs and to fellowship in Christ’s name and for His glory.                       

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Reference Passage: …Psalms 133:1 (NLT] …  

1 How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony! 

… King David sings of how wonderful it is for God to see His faithful believers coming together into harmonious fellowship.   

Reference Passage: …Romans 12:10 (NLT] …  

10 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.  

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians show Christlike love and affection for one another.              

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 12:12 (NLT] …  

12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ..  

… Paul teaches fellow Christians that God’s church is like the parts of a body, working together in the unity of Christ’s Church.        

Reference Passage: …Hebrews 10:24-25 (NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …

… God’s call, thru the Author of Hebrews, for God’s faithful remnant to come TOGETHER to encourage and edify one another in Christ’s Church.   

Reference Passage: …1John 1:7 (NLT] …  

7 But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.  

… God, thru John, teaches His faithful followers to live TOGETHER in HIs light and in His fellowship, which cleanses Christians from all of our sins.        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author , Anne Cetas -  AT THIS LINK -   Shows how all the Christians on Ragged Island, in the Bahamas, representing three separate Christian denominations, come TOGETHER to worship God and fellowship as ONE the body of Christ, which my readers can read about AT THIS LINK  .  

I pray we ALL, no matter how separate and unique we are, can come TOGETHER in the unity of our belief and faith in Christ’s cleansing love, … as do the believers on Ragged Island.  In the Scriptures above, we read of God’s call to His church to come TOGETHER, in the unity and fellowship of Christ’s cleansing blood, to worship our Lord with true Christians fellowship.   Can we?  …  Will we?    

   

My THANKFULNESS:.. Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me into Your fellowship of believers.              

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, …to seek Your fellowship, Lord, and come TOGETHER, as one CHURCH, to worship you with our lives.    … Amen  

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