BELOVED LET US LOVE ON ANOTHER…IJohn 4:7
…as we continue to pray & believe for a manifestation of His glory
on the earth
…as we continue to meditate on Math 6, Lord’s prayer..
I was blessed to receive a little book sharing revelation
from believers from the 1500’s on…it made me ponder…
“OUR FATHER”… you could meditate on this revelation for weeks …months, years, lifetime!
~One of life’s greatest mysteries is contained in the first little word, “our”.
IT IS THE MYSTERY OF SOLIDARITY.
Each individual is instructed to call God not just “my Father”,
but “OUR FATHER”.
Each Christian is a cell in the one Body of Christ,
as members of God’s family, a child of the same Father.
“Our” does not express possession, but an entirely new relationship with God.
The Church is the new communion of God and men.
In praying “our” Father, each of the baptized is praying in this communion…
The Communion of Saints. Communion is derived from Latin communio (sharing in common). The corresponding term in Greek is κοινωνία, which is often translated as “fellowship”. In Christianity, the basic meaning of the term communion is an especially close relationship of Christians, as individuals or as a Church, with God and with other Christians…
Denotes “intimate fellowship”…The Communion of Saints exists between us who are made holy by our link with Christ. The word is applied, according to the context, to communion, sharing or fellowship with:
- the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4), God (1 John 1:6), the Trinity (1 John 1:3), Jesus, Son of God (1 Corinthians 1:9), his sufferings (Philippians 3:10; 1 Peter 4:13), his future glory (1 Peter 5:1), the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14; Philippians 2:1)
- the blood and the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 10:16)
- fellow Christians, their sufferings and the faith (Acts 2:42; Ga 2:9; 1 John 1:3, 7; Heb 10:33; Revelation 1:9; Philippians 6, 17)
- a source of spiritual favors (Romans 11:17), the gospel (1 Corinthians 9:23), light and darkness (2 Corinthians 6:14)
- others’ sufferings and consolation (2 Corinthians 1:7; Philippians 4:14), their evangelizing work (Philippians 1:5), their graces or privileges (Romans 15:27; Philippians 1:7), their material needs, to remedy which assistance is given (Romans 12:13, 15:26-27; 2 Corinthians 8:4, 9:13; Galatians 6:6; Philippians 4:15; 1 Timothy 6:18; Hebrews 13:16)
Koinonia, a Greek word (κοινωνία) that means communion by intimate participation. The word is used to describe the relationship within the early Christian church. As a result the word is used within the Christian Church to participate, as Paul says, in the Communion of – in this manner it identifies the idealised state of fellowship and community that should exist – Communion. selah
”May they experience such perfect unity
that the world will know that you sent me
and that you love them as much as you love me.” Jn 17
Because of this mystery of solidarity in this Body,
all prayers echo.
“ the Word that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
Isa 55:11
My prayers will have far reaching effects…
My prayers, ascending like mist today,
will descend like a rain at another time and place,
wherever God directs,
where thirsty soil needs it.
My prayers can strengthen and deliver souls
far removed from me in time and space,
just as truly as my work or my money
can feed the bodies of the poor,
spread the Gospel of Jesus and build the Kingdom of God.
Spiritual transportation systems are as real as physical ones,
for the spiritual universe is as real as the physical universe,
and just as unified; and its gravity is as strong
as physical gravity.
Resounding, ever moving forward …
It is called LOVE. selah
1John4
Knowing God Through Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Seeing God Through Love
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
The Consummation of Love
17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
19 We love Him because He first loved us.
Obedience by Faith
20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
