Acrostic, 10

 

~ Fellowship ~

 

Introduction To The Series ~ This series is all about memory devices (heavily oriented toward acrostics) which help in remembering word meanings or concepts. Most of these are not my originals and where the originator is known they are named. For the most part they are sequenced alphabetically.

 

Acrostic ~ F.E.L.L.O.W.S.H.I.P.

 

A Lubricant for Life's Tight Spots

 

Foundation. The basis of all Christian fellowship is Christ. It is only because of the common bond you share in Christ that you have Christian fellowship one with another and with God.

For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:11

 

Encouragement. God created man as a social being, requiring support and encouragement. As you exhort one another, you have fellowship around the Word of God and Jesus Christ.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:25

 

Love one another, and the world will take note of your actions. And as you demonstrate your love, you experience true fellowship, and joy results as a certain by-product.

“By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35

 

Light is the basis of all life. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). The more you share and live the truth—light that God has shown you—the more you experience true life and fellowship.

God is light … But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. 1 John 1:5, 7

 

Obedience. It is not enough to share the light that you have been given, you must put into personal practice that which you have learned. This is the path to true happiness and fellowship with God and His children.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. John 13:17

 

Worship God the creator, not only individually, but also together with those of like mind. Praise and worship are the outgrowth of the realization of who God is and who you are because of Christ Jesus.

Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread Acts 20:7

 

Stablizing. As you fellowship with your brothers and sisters in Christ, you establish and strengthen a strong spiritual life; this is always important and will prove especially so during life's trying times.

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another … so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father                                   1 Thessalonians 3:12-13

 

Happiness is a sure result of fellowship with those who share your faith. You possess a bond which unites spirit and soul in a supernatural way, which cannot be understood – it can only be experienced.

And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. Acts 13:52

 

Intercession is an obligation. Fellowship is not just taking in but also giving out. One way to give of yourself is by intercession in prayer for others.

 I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men 1 Timothy 2:1

 

Participation in the functions of your local church and with those who share your faith is required to experience joyous fellowship one with another. Fellowship is impossible without personal interaction.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” … Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.” 1 Corinthians 12:21, 27

 

Fellowship occurs in sharing with others who know and love your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Fellowship is also with each member of the Trinity. Christian fellowship will offset the stresses of daily living and give a perpetual song to your heart.

~ From the book: “GOD’S DESIRE: How to Please God”

 

Note ~ The old preachers definition of fellowship was a bunch of men in a boat!

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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Fellowship With God

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~ The Purpose of Divine Fellowship ~

 

Introduction  ~  The Christian who is “walking worthy of his calling” (1 Thessalonians 1:11-12) is in fellowship with all three members of the Godhead and with other believers.

 

Fellowship With The Father (for will and purpose)  ~  “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.  But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:5-7).

 

Fellowship With The Son (for walk and practice)  ~  “I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.  God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 Corinthians 1:4-9).

 

Fellowship With The Spirit (for witness and power)  ~  “Finally, brethren, farewell.  Become complete.  Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.  Greet one another with a holy kiss.  All the saints greet you.  The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.  Amen” (2 Corinthians 13:11-14).

 

Fellowship With The Saints (for word and perseverance) ~  Clearly, the obedient Christian is in fellowship with all three members of the Trinity as well as in fellowship with other Christians.  “And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, ‘Be saved from this perverse generation.’  Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.  And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship [with their brothers and sisters in Christ], in the breaking of bread, and in prayers” (Acts 2:40-42).

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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7 Ones

 ~ A Seven Linked Chain of Fellowship ~

One Inheritance (fellow heirs)  ~  “The Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel” (Ephesians 3:6).   

One Body (fellow members)  ~  “The Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel” (Ephesians 3:6).  

One Calling (fellow participants)  ~  “The Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel” (Ephesians 3:6).  

One Home (fellow citizens)  ~  “Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).

One Master (fellow workers)  ~  “I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life” (Philippians 4:3).  

One War (fellow soldiers)  ~  “Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and the one who ministered to my need” (Philippians 2:25).   

One Hope (fellow prisoners)  ~  “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me” (Romans 16:7).  “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling” (Ephesians 4:4).

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

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