Fellowship, Fellowship, and Fellowship

Serving the Lord with a vision of the Body is full of fellowship. Our service in the Body is not individualistic anymore. Therefore, it involves a lot of fellowship with fellow members in the Body, and nothing can be done without fellowship as everything must be done in fellowship only. This lesson has been a great blessing in my service. 

Often my service has been just occupied by fellowship after fellowship after fellowship. And while fellowshipping I enjoyed the Lord's speaking in the Body and through the Body. On the one hand, fellowship is very enjoyable and serves as a covering and coordination, Yet on the other hand, fellowship is "difficult" as it cuts through personal opinions, and feelings, and gives no room for the self.  This way of serving the Lord is amazing and wonderful. I am full of praise and thanks to the Lord for leading me to such a vision and service.

Two days ago, though I had my office schedule for work, I had to attend a fellowship with two brothers to fellowship on the matter of support for the servings one in the coming financial year. The fellowship started off with a negative note, but as we fellowshipped and listened to one another, the Lord cleared up many misunderstandings and brought us into oneness in deciding how much support certain serving ones should get.  In the process, we brothers also were able to understand each other better and be blended more.

Then I had to pick up a brother and fellowship concerning his personal matter over lunch. Initially, this brother was a total "stranger" to me as I never knew him personally nor what he has been going through. Yet, as he opened up about his situation, almost with tears concerning his "bad" relationship with some leading brothers in the local church he was, we could sense where he has gone wrong. At that point, we were almost inclined towards him and even sympathized with him. Yet in fellowship, as I also looked to the Lord inwardly on how to shepherd this brother, the Lord gave me the liberty to share from my own experiences how the Lord led me in my marriage life and how I had been dealt with in the matter of discerning the Lord's will and obeying it. In fellowship, the Lord showed all of us the danger of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the blessing of eating from the tree of life. 

Sometimes, some young brothers were "obsessed" with what they wanted in life concerning their marriage or job, or place of stay. Only supplying the divine life in fellowship can rescue such ones from the deadness to life. That's what we experienced as we fellowshipped with this brother. After the hours of fellowship, it became very clear that our young brother has been misled by himself in his obsession about a certain sister she likes and loves and desires to marry, but that happened to be his own personal feeling, one-sided from his own viewpoint. But in fellowship we did our best to shepherd our dear brother and encouraged him to fellowship with certain brothers to clear up all the offenses whatsoever, and also to immediately resume his personal enjoyment of Christ through his daily exercise of prayer, reading the word of God, and participating in the practical church life.

Then in the evening, I had a time of family fellowship with some relatives who came to stay with us for a couple of days for their health check-ups. To them, I shared the goodness of the Lord in how He led me from my young age to serve Him and how He blessed me with all heavenly and spiritual blessings in addition to the many physical blessings as well. They also testified that they have learned a lot from the life testimony and heard the living testimony of how the Lord must be experienced in a living way.

The Lord does speak clear messages through fellowship in the Body. All the saints I have had fellowship with definitely testified of how they were blessed by the fellowship. In fact, through such a small beginning- a simple fellowship, the Lord can gain all the saints for the fulfillment of His heart's desire.

Lord, preserve me in Your Body in fellowship all the days of my life.