Ask the Holy Spirit to Bring Unity and Love to Church
January 21, 2010 by pastorstjohn
Filed under Weekly Words
Dear friend,
This week, while preparing for our Tuesday night theology class, I ran across this sentence:
“When the Holy Spirit is working strongly in a church to manifest God’s presence, one evidence will be a beautiful harmony in the church community and overflowing love for one another.”*
I often pray for unity in our church family because it is my heart’s desire to see a “beautiful harmony” in our church. I also pray routinely that we would love one another. But rarely do I think to cry out for the assistance of the third Person of God in bringing these things about! The unity and love which we desire to see in our midst should be flowing from the Sprit of God who is within us. Let’s make it our habit to ask Him to make His presence known through the powerful working of the Holy Spirit!
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law” (Gal. 5:22-23).
Your servant,
Stephen
Rev. Stephen St. John
Pastor/Elder
Work Cited: * p. 647 - Grudem, Wayne. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. Inter-varsity Press. Nottinghan, England, 1994.