Unity

With the absence of unity there is war, struggles, jealousy, hatred and discomfort. So the fact is this; we need unity in our lives. We need peace, comfort, love and compassion. We need to be united. As a Christian it is important to have unity, in your relationships and between you and God.

The reason it is so important to have unity is simply this; it creates better Communication.

When your in a relationship it is very important for you to have unity with that person. I know in Pastor Kayla and I’s relationship when we allow things to take up our time and distract us from each other. We will start failing to communicate.

And in our lives when there is a wall in between us and God, our communication becomes harder. The reason we have a hard time hearing from God and it seems like he doesn’t answer our prayers is because we haven’t truly tore down those things between us.
And unity is simply this; When more than one thing combines into one.

I don’t know about you but I don’t want to do this thing called life by myself. I want to be one with God. I want to come into unity with Jesus. I want to have full communication with him.

Without communication any relationship will fail. Because you have to communicate to succeed.

 The bible says that iron sharpens iron and that we can help each other! In Ecclesiastes it says; Ecclesiastes 4:12 ¹² By yourself you're unprotected. With a friend you can face the worst. Can you find a third friend? A three-stranded rope isn’t easily snapped.

If you have a problem with someone in your life or you don’t like someone that comes to youth group, you need to get over it! Your friends, your family and even the people that are in your lives that you don’t like. You need to find a way to get into unity with them. You wanna know why we need to? Because the bible says so, because God says this;

1^st Corinthians 1:10

¹⁰I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends, using the authority of Jesus, our Master. I'll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common.

As I talk about this I’m  dreaming a dream with you. Of what we want to see in this youth group. And that is young people who are passionate for God and want nothing else and will settle for nothing but a move of God, in their lives, in their families and in their friend's lives.

Today I hope that we can start something amazing. Today I dream that we can start having the unity that we need. Today I wanna challenge you to step out of the NORM.

We need to grab a hold of that unity and ask God to come down in our lives.

Read Matthew 18: 20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

Pastor Phil