Title: Are You Building Fences or Bridges?
Text:
Acts 2:44 (HCSB)
44 Now all the believers were together and held all things in common.
Acts 2:46-47 (HCSB)
46 Every day they devoted themselves [to meeting] together in the temple complex, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with a joyful and humble attitude,
47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (HCSB)
9 Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts.
10 For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.
Observation:
I like divine appointments; that is the case with the verses list above. They fit so neatly with the area in which God has been leading me in this New Year. The keyword for me for this New Year is relationships. When I set this goal in December the scripture that supports my goal is the passage from Ecclesiastes.
For over 40 years I have been a member of a Christian business and professional men's association. We closed our meetings in a circle of fellowship, and sang the fellowship hymn listed below. I experienced some of the sweetest relationships this side of heaven praying, fellowshipping, and sharing the word of God around the world with these men.
I recall being with just one brother at breakfast; we were on our knees praying before eating breakfast at a local restaurant. I was praying this prayer, "Lord, add to our number one by one men of Your own choosing". As I was praying those words Gordon walked in, and joined George and me on our knees. O how sweet to walk together with brothers united in prayer, purpose and passion. My goal is bridge building in 2014.
"Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again."
Source: http://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn.php/h/860#ixzz2qCgBGvmG
Prayer:
Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I am so blessed and grateful for the tie that binds our heart to Your heart, and to one another. In the name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Proverbs 17:17 (HCSB)
17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time.
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Psalm 119:105 (HCSB)
105 Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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