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You have needs in your life and no one to meet them. You have hurt to share and no one to listen to you. You have love to give and no one to receive it.
Find Your People.
Genesis 1:18 To govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:22-23 (TLB) And made the rib into a woman, and brought her to the man. “This is it!” Adam exclaimed. “She is part of my own bone and flesh! Her name is ‘woman’ because she was taken out of a man.”
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
God didn’t create us because He was lonely. God created us because He is love.
Acts 2:46-47 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
The first-century believers desperately needed each other and they knew it. Believers today desperately need each other and they have forgotten it.
People are intentionally pursuing a life that destroys their mental health and robs them of real joy and lasting fulfillment.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.
The church isn’t a building you go to but a family you belong to.
Matthew 5:46-47 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
Serve one another.
Show hospitality to one another. Care for one another.
Encourage one another.
Go one another your bro before you sit in a row. Give your faith some friends.
A Gathering of Grace A Gathering of Healing
James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
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