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Fellowship with God
What is fellowship?
When we hear the word fellowship, what do we think of?
We think of food right?
Yes food and spending time with someone having a meal together.
That’s why i always say you can see if the people in the Church are growing in fellowship by looking at their size.
The cuter the members are, the more you know that they are fellowshipping together.
I can see that our Church is growing in our fellowship this season.
All of us look very blessed.
So usually, when we think about fellowship, we think about spending time with our fellow brothers and sisters.
This is important and the Bible talks about not forgetting to meet up together in Hebrews 10:25
So usually, when we think about fellowship, we think about spending time with our fellow brothers and sisters.
This is important and the Bible talks about not forgetting to meet up together in Hebrews 10:25
I will talk about this next week.
So this is something very important for Christian .
But there is another type of fellowship that I want to talk about today and that is our fellowship with God.
We don’t really talk about fellowship with God.
I think we need to talk about our fellowship with God first before we can talk about fellowship with our fellow brothers and sisters.
Because if we do not know how to fellowship with God, we will not be able to truly fellowship with our brothers and sisters.
When God made Adam, Adam was the first human who had direct fellowship with God and Adam walked with God and spoke with god.
But when Adam and Eve sinned against God and decided to live life outside of God’s plan, the relationship was broken and Adam and Eve hid from the presence of God.
But God Called out to man and asked him where is he.
After Adam confessed to God about what he had done, God already had a plan for the salvation of man to come back to having a relationship with God.
He began to speak about Jesus from the beginning.
God loves us so much that from the very time when man began to sin God planned to bring us back into fellowship with him.
God sent Jesus to die for our sins so that we can return to fellowship with God.
When Adam was in fellowship with God. he trusted in God and he did not have to worry about what he will eat or his provision.
Why?
Because he is in fellowship with God and God is with him always leading him guiding him and providing for him.
Before Adam sinned against God, God put Adam to work in the garden of Eden and God blessed him in his work.
Everything that he grew and took care of grew well and bore fruit.
But when sin entered into the garden and into Adam and Eve’s heart, their work became hard.
Because they chose their way and their strength, the work of their hands did not bear fruit because God did not bless it.
From then on work was hard work and even giving birth was painful from then on.
Without God in the picture life gets harder as we look at the life of Adam and Eve and even when we look at our lives.
We need to know God and grow in our fellowship with God for us to grow in our spiritual life.
We need to have an encounter with God.
It is possible to say the sinners prayer and begin to come to Church and do all the things that Christians do and in the end do not know God at all.
We might know about God but do not know him relationally.
Fellowship with God makes us grow
If we look at the lives of the all the people who God called.
People like Moses, Joshua, David, Paul.
What is one thing in common for them.
Their lives changed when they encountered God in their lives.
The people in the old testament changed when they encountered God.
We who are in the new testament times are changed when we encounter Jesus Christ.
So how do we encounter God in our lives?
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First we need to be able to read the word of God.
If we do not have time to read the word of God or we don’t have a good version of the Bible that is easy to read and for us to understand, then we will not be able to receive from the word of God.
If we cannot read, we need to find a way for us to listen to the scriptures of God.
If you need help with any of these, please let our brothers and sisters and the leaders know so that we can help you to have a way of knowing God through the scriptures.
We need to set aside time to read and understand the scriptures and ask the Holy spirit to reveal the scriptures to us.
This is so that we will know what God has done for us when Jesus died for us on the cross.
I encourage all of us to make this a priority.
If we are not reading and learning about God, we will not encounter God in our lives.
When we want to know someone well, what do we do?
we spend time with the person to talk and to hear from the person.
So in the same way, in order to know God and allow him to lead us, we need to spend time talking to God and hearing from him.
And how do we do this?
We do this by spending time praying to God.
I sometimes hear people asking why can’t i hear from God.
The first thing I will ask them is if they have started to try.
Many of them said I tried 3 times but I did not hear anything.
So I stopped.
It is the same as someone who wants to learn to ride a bicycle.
He tries 3 times and does not succeed.
Then he says that he cannot ride a bicycle.
What should the person who wants to ride a bicycle do?
He should continue to persevere and try.
And also ask his friends who can do it to help him.
Is this correct?
Do we respond the same way in our Christian walk?
Do we try to hear from God 3 times and then decide that God is not speaking to us and then we stop trying.
Just like learning to ride a bike, it takes time and perseverance to learn a new skill.
Learning to hear from God and knowing God is a lifelong journey.
We will get to know God and hear from God and have fellowship with God if we make it a daily practice to read and pray and allow God’s word to affect our actions and thoughts.
This is why reading the word of God and praying are so important.
It connects us to God in fellowship.
If we have not been doing so, we cannot expect to grow in God or for our faith to grow or for our lives to improve.
2. We need to allow the love of God to touch our lives and move our hearts.
It says here in this verse that the word of God is living and active.
is the word of God living and active to you?
Or is it just another dead book that does nothing to us?
The word of God reveals the truth about our lives to us.
It reveals to us if we are living lives that are leading to destruction or life.
It says here in that the thief wants to steal, kill and destroy you.
But Jesus came to give us abundant life.
The ways of the world will steal kill and destroy us.
But if we follow and allow Jesus to come into our lives and lead us.
We will have abundant life when we allow Jesus to come and change our lives from the inside out.
In every sermon that I preach I will preach about the love of Jesus and what Jesus has done for us.
And how it should change our hearts and how we live.
It is possible to listen to the good news and not be changed by it or moved by it.
Do you believe?
When will this happen?
This will happen when we have decided in our lives that we are not looking to change in our lives.
I think that attitude is very important.
It is the open or closed door to our lives.
If we have decided that we will not allow the word of God to change us today, do you think you will receive anything from God today?
Probably not.
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