Friday Fight 69 - Fellowship Famine

Every Friday, when I wake and pray, God places something on my heart to help me fight darkness beginning in our minds. Today is FF69.

How often have we sat in our own hurts or struggles and wondered if anyone would understand the heaviness we feel? Perhaps the course of action leading to this hurt is so crazy that sharing requires a tremendous amount of emotional work, and we are too tired. We want to share our struggles, but for some reason, we choose isolation instead; then what?

Fellowship Famine:

We all walk through painful things and find ourselves fighting to withdraw into physical and mental isolation. But what if we fought against the withdrawal and purposefully gathered with others that are also struggling? I love the unity I find in walking with others. We talk or meet and are encouraged through prayer for the brokenness we all carry. Sundays are my favorite day to come together to celebrate who God is in our lives. Together we share our blessings, joys, and healing along with the struggles and pain of sin. A famine is an extreme scarcity of food. Fellowship is of God, and in Him, we are fed spiritually. So often, seeing the chaos stirring or what is happening is difficult until the life of God's truth breaks and frees our suffering souls.

Darkness works to manipulate situations of feeling hopeless. Being hopeless is believing the way things are now is the way they will always be, which is a lie—hopelessness, birth fear and anxiety, bringing countless other issues.

Take time to help bring God's love and hope in Him to someone feeling broken, empty, or spiritually desperate. The deepest needs of those struggling are the sudden emptiness afflicting a person's soul.

Walking in unity with others is encouraging and becomes an encompassing lifestyle working against a fellowship famine. Pray with others and allow God to be revealed in us and to us. Fellowship matters because doing so dictates how we move forward while walking in the character of Christ. Together it sets us on a path to holiness.

Pastor Shannon

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