Together We Are Stronger, Part 4 — A ‘Time With God’ Audio Devotion

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Good morning everybody.

As you get going in this day, start it off the best way possible, and that is by taking some time with God. And that’s what we do each weekday morning at this time. We open up the Bible with an attitude of prayer, that is with a heart that says God – I know this is your word to me, and you’re talking into situations that happened a couple of 1000 years ago, and yet when I read it, I hear your Holy Spirit speaking to me about my life. And so I’m listening. What do you have to say to me today?

That’s the kind of attitude you need to bring to God when you spend time with Him. Open your Bible. Invite Him to speak to you, and then you respond to what He’s saying to you. Make it a relationship. Not just a one way thing.

We’re talking this week on this beautiful theme that ‘Together we are Stronger‘, and you know, from the very beginning when God made mankind in the Garden of Eden, He looked at Adam and he said it is not good for the man to be alone. And so he made a helper for him, a partner in life, and they began the first family, and God made marriage because together we are stronger, and He made families because together we are stronger.

And of course, sin came into the world and has greatly damaged and destroyed relationships in general and families, especially.

And so you may not have come from a together we are stronger kind of family and the marriage that was in the home you grew up in may not have been like that, but God wants to do that in your life. He wants to bring you together with people who will strengthen you in life, and God is in the business of redeeming us and taking what has been fallen and damaged by sin and rebuilding it, making it what He intended it to be in the very beginning, and He wants to rebuild and restore your relationships, and so you need to focus on relationships in your life. Don’t just focus on accomplishing things for God. No, focus first on relationships.

And then see what God accomplishes through you and those relationships.

Think about what there is in your life, who there is that you can partner with, what different groups of people you can become a part of that will expand the scope of the impact of your life.

Partnering with groups of people.

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When the church was first formed in the Book of Acts, it says in Acts 2:43 in the Bible.

Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe, and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles, and all those who had believed were together. And had all things in common. They began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all as one might have need, and day by day continuing with one mind in the temple and breaking bread from house to house. They were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, praising God and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding to their number day by day.

Those who were being saved, you see, it was in their togetherness that God was being revealed. It was in how they were sharing with one another, and taking care of one another, even when it cost them, even when they had to sell something in order to help someone else out, the gladness and sincerity of their hearts when they were together that gave them favour with all the people. Everyone saw there’s something different about this group of people.

If you’re praying for someone in your life that you really want to introduce to Jesus, the Jesus that has made such a difference to you. Get them together with your other friends who love the Lord as well. Let them see what God is doing in your lives together. Together we are stronger. Together we make a bigger impact. How can you put togetherness with the other people who love the Lord more into your life?

I’m John North.

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