FELLOWSHIP

FELLOWSHIP

INTRODUCTION

There is so much God kept for us in other people. Nevertheless, it is the way we are that determines what God will give us. Fellowship is omnipotent; it has the power of life and death. God prefers fellowship to prayers. After all, prayer is a small aspect of fellowship. Our relationship with God should be established on fellowship and not on prayers. There was no prayer in the beginning and there will be no prayer in the end. Nobody remains the same after every tangible fellowship. Fellowship is established on exchange of values. It is what we give to God that determines what we receive from Him. There is no enduring fellowship between God and valueless men. It was the value and usefulness of Adam that attracted God continuously to the edenic garden. It is the harvested values of men that introduce them to God and to themselves. Fellowship becomes negative when it is unequal. Those who don’t have anything that should connect them to us must not be part of us. The easiest way to destroy the value of things is to allow people who are not worthy of them to access them. Any imbalanced relationship where one person is contributing almost everything will never thrive. When God wanted to establish a spiritual kingdom, He lost His only begotten Son for it. Nothing goes for nothing. At the altar of fellowship, Jesus laid down His life to buy the Church. The presence of the New Testament Church is sustained on earth by the price that was paid to purchase it. We can only attract God’s presence through the value we harvest from ourselves. God will never give men what they don’t have value to take. Trifling with our values is disowning ourselves. When a man has the value to introduce God to men, he becomes one with God. No matter how close people are to us, we must make sure that there are important aspects of us they must not access.

God protects Himself by denying unworthy people access into His eternal presence. God does not reveal Himself to people who can’t see themselves. Those who desire to take what is important from God must lose something important to Him. God fellowships with the values of men. It is the values of men that attract God to them. The presence of God is sustained around us by what He gets from us. When we pray to God, He reveals to us the price we must pay for His presence to be sustained around us. It is wrong to believe that God can give us whatever we ask. God needs our efforts to bless us. So many believers are frustrated because they think that God will always answer their prayers. God takes the nature of a man to fellowship with men but it is not everybody that can get His attention. It is the particular form God takes that determines who meets Him.

However, there is so much that can be achieved through fellowship. Every kind of destiny we have must connect us to the people that we need and the people that need us. Neglecting important team members is ignoring God. Most of the times, a man appears as a channel of blessing when God answers our prayers. Sharing fellowship with wrong people is opening our lives to the spells of the devil. Great men are known in their contacts.

Fellowship has both preservative and destructive influences on people. The value of people should determine how we relate with them. The oneness of a man with his wife is the deepest form of fellowship. The kind of attention and intimacy ascribed to your life partner must not be duplicated for any reason. Separating fellowships is part of preserving our lives and destinies. Sharing is a very important aspect of fellowship. Whatever we desire to preserve should be shared. Fellowship preserves the lives of men. Jesus preserved His life in sharing some of His personal secrets with some of His chosen disciples. Some of the peculiar encounters of Jesus were documented because His disciples were present.

We can’t hide everything from everybody. It is a blessing to have people who are worthy of intimate fellowships. Worthiness should control fellowships, not love. Those who don’t have anything that should connect them to us must not be part of us. God is mocked each time we expose things that have rich values to people who are not worthy of them. A lot of marriages have killed couples because of inequalities. A relationship that causes oneness should be established on worthiness and not on love. There is birth each time fellowship accomplishes oneness. What God achieves in our lives is far more important to Him than what He accomplishes through us. This is why fellowshipping with God is more important to Him than working for Him. The teachers of men wait for them on recognized platforms. There are things we can’t share with people except we meet them on certain platforms. Not being selective and discreet in our fellowship is an obvious sign that we are not sure of what the future holds for us.

If there is nothing to hide, then there is nothing to live for. The essence of this enlightening book is for us to depend on its principle to establish this precarious millennium.

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