The Church has to come together on its knees. The people of God must repent and seek God’s will because the battle is a spiritual battle.
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Preface any statement this way and I can guarantee you a sure-fire way to build walls, cause defensive responses and inhibit any heart-to-heart dialogue with those who might happen to disagree with you.
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, “it is written” on which to hang his doctrine.
Here’s what a good church looks like… everybody looks different, but they all look like Jesus. How does that come about? Because when an infinite person expresses Himself finitely, it always comes out different.
Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours, it is mine, and if it is mine, it is yours. We must do it together – or be cast aside together, and God in his absolute freedom goes on by other means to use His Church in hastening His Kingdom.
When a church is full of humble hearts who desire to outdo each other in love, honour and sacrifice, that church experiences unity.
In the essentials we need unity, in the non-essentials we need freedom; but in all things we need love.
If the Lord were to pour out revival upon the Body in the condition that we are in now, our current lack of unity would hinder us from being an adequate ‘vessel’ to hold and maintain the revival that He would pour out…I have changed my priority in prayer to pray for unity first, then revival. Unity in the Body is a direct answer to Jesus’ prayer in John 17, and a unified Body provides a proper ‘vessel” into which revival can be poured out.