Gathering

Hebrews 10:25 “Not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” NIV

Coming together and fellowshipping with family, friends, and other believers is essential to our growth. God made us to need each other. When we come together on one accord we can strengthen one another in our struggles, we can encourage each other in our downfalls, we can help lift up each other’s heads when we are overwhelmed, and we can hold each other up when we are broken. Not only is this good for encouraging each other when we may get down, but it can also stir us to excellence in our walk with Christ. Others can provoke you to do good works in the name of Jesus. We need each other. Proverbs 27:17 “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” NIV

Have you ever heard that a three-strand cord is not easily broken? God said in Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” NIV When you have this equation, this is a force to be reckoned with!

It is so important to come together in fellowship with one another as often as we can. This is especially true in the world we live in today, where people are more anti-social than any other time in history due to social media and other distractions that have reinvented our time together. I am not saying that technology is bad because it has given us some great opportunities to advance in knowledge and lots of other things, but it can’t take the place of the importance of physical fellowship, gathering, or coming together.

We must protect the sanctity of gathering during this season because I believe that coming together is going to catapult God’s people into a revival like never before. It is going to bring us back to the basics of God’s Kingdom influence in the earth.

I feel led to challenge myself to be more purposeful in creating an atmosphere to invite others to come together in fellowship and to seek what God wants us to do. I want to be open to God to use me for His glory in ministering to not only His people, but the world. We know that people are hurting and suffering and some will not be comfortable coming to the church building, but we as believers are the church, so let them come to us. And as we walk in our place as God’s people, we can bring with us the spirit of the living God that can heal, deliver, and set free those that are looking for a savior.

I challenge each of you to reach out to others in your circle of influence and come together in an effort to hear from God and see how God moves in the midst of your gathering!

Blessings, L