BREAKFAST WITH JESUS

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS

A daily devotional
Pastor Stanley
5th MAY 2025

WE BELONG TO EACH OTHER

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body —whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free —and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. (NIV)

Everyone of us in the body of Christ belongs to each other. You belong to me, I belong to you just as much as your legs as well as your hands belong to you. Just as you can't say your legs are not yours because you don't use them to think even so you can't say the next Christian around you don't belong to you. 

Understanding the spirituality of the church is very important. The church is literally, vitally and inseparably the body of Christ, as such it is a living organism. Everyone who is born again is alive unto the body of Christ as an integral part of it. We all are the church, though many we are one body of Him. The first thing to recognize is your spirit; it is your spirit that is part of Christ and His body. Your physical body is your domicile, given you to express Christ.

It is by one Spirit we all were baptized (immersed) completely into the body of Christ; you are me, I am you. We belong to each other. In the spirit we are indispensable to each other and we are dependent on each other. Realizing this in the physical and walking in it is paramount to fulfilling not only our individual responsibility to the church but also collectively as a church. 

God's intention is that we have equal concern for each other. We suffer together, persecuted together, honoured together and rejoices together.
1 Corinthians 12:25-27 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

When we say wrong things about other people in the church we are actually saying wrong things about ourselves, whatever befall them is also our plight.
Galatians 5:15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

The instruction is clear, don't bite and devour each other, if you do you will be destroyed by each other. That tells us something; if you see a church that is weak or destroyed it is not the devil who is responsible but the members of that church. They bit and devoured themselves until they eventually destroyed the church. 
Let's have equal concern and love for each other, for we belong to each other, we are the one mighty, glorious and victorious Body of Christ. Hallelujah!

PRAYER

Lord Jesus I thank You for making us your body. Today I come against every spirit of division, malice and disdain in the church. I proclaim and prophesy that love shall spread throughout the church bringing unity, concern, love and one mind. Dear Lord I ask that our eyes be enlightened to see and live in the reality of our oneness in Christ. Amen!
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