The following is from our Beloved Sister in Brazil and is timely for what The Holy Spirit is directing us in:
Beloved Brother,
I was led to start studying the book of Joshua, so I bought the ebook format of the Passion translation of Joshua. Here’s a valuable and confirming word regarding unity (it’s a struggle in my household and I see more and more how crucial this is) on the footnotes about chapter 1 verse 15,
They will take the lead and help their brothers 15 until they take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving them as their homeland.ac Afterward, you will be free to return to your own land and possess the land that Moses, Yahweh’s servant, gave you here on the east side of the Jordan.”ad
ad1:15 Joshua the prophet foresaw the complete victory of possessing the land of their enemies. In vv. 12–15 we learn that the land-takers were required to be united. Neither one individual nor one tribe could take the land; it required all God’s people going in together and fighting as one. Battles are won as God’s people unite. But unity alone isn’t enough; we must be prepared for a battle over our complete inheritance. There must be no rest until everyone has received his or her inheritance. See Eph. 4:11–16.
My reply:
Unity brought on by Agape Love is the key! This is what Servias Ministries is all about and should be the goal of all ministries (Ephesians 4):
12And their calling is to nurture and prepare all the holy believers to do their own works of ministry, and as they do this they will enlarge and build up the body of Christ.
13These grace ministries will function until we all attain oneness into the faith, until we all experience the fullness of what it means to know the Son of God, and finally we become one into a perfect man with the full dimensions of spiritual maturity and fully developed into the abundance of Christ.
14And then our immaturity will end! And we will not be easily shaken by trouble, nor led astray by novel teachings or by the false doctrines of deceivers who teach clever lies.
15But instead we will remain strong and always sincere in our Love as we express the Truth. All our direction and ministries will flow from Christ and lead us deeper into Him, the anointed Head of His body, the church.
16For His “body” has been formed in His image and is closely joined together and constantly connected as one. And every member has been given Divine gifts to contribute to the growth of all; and as these gifts operate effectively throughout the whole body, we are built up and made perfect in Love.