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The ironic thing is "it can be lonely" but it is not supposed to be lonely! Jesus said in His prayer to the Father, "I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me" (John 17:22-23 NIV).

What Jesus had in mind was for His disciples to be united in purpose, spirit, vision, and not only that, but for them to be walking embassies for God. As a born again believer, we are supposed to be a one-stop shop for God if you excuse the expression - anyone should be able to come to you at any given point in time, and experience God through you. That's why Jesus talked about the power of agreement in Matthew 18:19. The recurrent theme in the New Testament for believers is love, unity, peace, joy, thanksgiving, and fellowship towards one another because we need one another!

We're "alone" sometimes, but being alone is not what God intended! I know some of the more religious people out there will suggest that God likes it when we're alone, that somehow we learn more when we're alone, and all that other stuff that's been incorrectly preached for decades, but the truth is God has never changed His Holy Mind when He said "it is not good for the man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18 NIV). This is what God intended:

1. When you pray in faith and in the presence of other brothers and sisters, they AGREE and say 'Amen' without questioning your righteousness, without casting aspersions on your faith, without sabotaging you and adding qualifications to your request.

2. When God speaks to you, grants you powerful insight as to a specific purpose or mission and you share His Word with your brothers and sisters, they AGREE and say 'Amen' ... not "Hmmm, I don't know about that" or "Well, you know, maybe that was the flesh" or "Well, why don't you pray some more about this."

3. When a brother or sister is hurt, you put your arms around them, cry with them, love them, and cherish them.

4. When a brother or sister rejoices, you rejoice with them.

5. When a brother or sister is hungry, you feed them.

6. If a brother or sister is lonely, spend time with them!

7. If a brother or sister asks you to fight beside him/her and conquer the strongholds of darkness by faith, YOU FIGHT WITH THEM!

Those seven points pretty much sum up what we are supposed to do: pray together, eat together, believe together, fight aside one another, even die for one another ... but what disappoints me is that most people don't even give a rip about their brothers and sisters and would be more willing to hand them over to be culled by the anti-Christ than even the most wicked sinner.

WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ALONE, BUT WE MAKE EACH OTHER ALONE BECAUSE WE'RE SO STUPID!

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I am really upset and really hurt by the direction that fellowship, faith, and all around loyalty has gone in this world.

See, some of you are creating a catch-22 here: you claim that "Oh, well, God causes people to forsake us so that we'll seek Him, so if I forsake you, its because God has something better for you." Really? If that was true, then why did Jesus select 12 apostles and insist on them collaborating together? Why is it when Jesus sent people to minister, He sent them two by two, not one by one? If that was true, why is it every book of the New Testament hammers us on fellowship, sharing, and praying together for one another?

The thing is, yes, being alone "can" and "does" enable you to learn from God, but you're missing the point: God created emissaries - US ... you and me - to be the teachers. So yes, if God wants to teach you about His Nature, you're gonna learn it one way or the other, but God would prefer that you learn it through unity with the body and not separation, disunity, factionalism and strife.

I honestly believe that some of you are going to be surprised when we appear before the Throne of God and Jesus' Word is proven correct when He asks people, "Why is it you abandoned me on such and such a date and left me to die?" and people are going to say, "What, Lord? When did I abandon you?" and he's going to refer to the times that you ditched Sally, or the time you sold out John, or the time that you cut off Billy all because you were so prideful and arrogant that you couldn't be in agreement and faith with a fellow brother.

It DISGUSTS me the way that we as believers treat our own spiritual flesh and blood.

Look at Joseph: the people who harrangued him were mostly HIS BROTHERS! Joseph has a dream from God, and the very people who should be helping him with his vision sell him into slavery. Sound familiar?

What disgusts me is that the minute you get the Word of God in you, brothers and sisters betray you, mothers and fathers abandon you, and you become dispossessed to those who should yoke with you, but who ends up becoming your friends are strangers, aliens, and people who have nothing in common with you.

You know what's really, really, really messed up? It will sometimes get to the point where you will get rejected by the righteous yet accepted by the wicked! I find that really alarming and really disgusting when it comes to that: no one "in house" wants to obey, so God is forced to "outsource" to meet your needs.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is offensive.


Martin Luther King had it right:

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

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