36. FELLOWSHIP   --page 291--

         Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: & so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them (Heb.10:25; Mt.18:20).

         1. What is this life, so full of care,
         If we have no time to stop & share?
         2. Don't ever get so God-damned busy you haven't got time for the sheep! If you are that busy, you're too damned busy! Anybody who hasn't got time to fellowship with his wife or her husband or helpers or cook or maid or babysitter, or even the gardener or the postman, is too busy!
         3. He drew a circle that shut me out, but love & I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in.
         4. When you live together for awhile, then you really know what fellowship is: A bunch of fellows in the same ship!
         5. We can meet right here at Jesus' feet! Jesus is here & He's teaching us through His Word!
         6. The Lord is for scattering to preach the Gospel in all the World, but He's also for coming together as a body for fellowship.
         7. We've got to watch out that we don't--like the churches--fellowship so much that we neglect our job & our work--which is witnessing, litnessing, winning souls.
         8. Lack of desire to fellowship is a very dangerous sign.
         9. Videos are the fire that fueled the flame of the Fellowships!
         10. Every time we meet together, we meet at Jesus' feet!
         11. More fellowship & better communication often act as solutions in themselves.
         12. If you don't meet & pray, you'll become the Devil's meat & prey.
         13. Children's contributions to a Family meeting are just as important as anybody's, & maybe sometimes more important!
         14. We need each other as well as the Lord, & He likes it when we gather together!--He's always there.
         15. What business is more important to take care of than listening to what the Lord has to say?
         16. When a meeting is called for fellowship, that is the Lord's most important business at that time.
         17. When we are gathered together for a time of fellowship, it's like everybody bringing their candle to the table, their candle of the Spirit, their candle of inspiration, their additional little part of spirit & power. And when there are this many candles at the table burning together, that's a lot of light, that's a lot of spirit, that's a lot of power.
         18. Gathering together in fellowship is one of the secrets of the upper room, the experience of the Day of Pentecost. They were all together in body & in unity, one mind & one spirit. They were united with the Lord & His Spirit in one place at one time like one body, one mind, one spirit, all together in obedience to what the Lord had commanded them.
         19. Even the Lord needed fellowship with His disciples. When He went into the Garden of Gethsemane that night He took His three top most intimate disciples, Peter, James & John with Him away from the rest of them to pray with Him because He was facing the most severe hour in His whole life.
         20. When the Family is gathered together for a fellowship meeting there is nothing more important for you to do than to be at that meeting.
         21. In a united Family meeting, whether it be of your little Home or your Area Fellowship, one of the most important factors is that you also join in in spirit & contribute your share of the spirit to the meeting.
         22. The Spirit is a very definite, real, almost tangible, thing. You can feel the Spirit in united meetings, more than perhaps in a tiny group of two or three gathered together.
         23. It seems like the more of us there are in a meeting, the more power we feel.
         24. Family dinner is important Family fellowship & that's when the most important announcements of the day are made & when the most important conversation goes on.
         25. Dinnertime is too important to just snatch & grab your food & run, it's not some kind of a buffet lunch or smorgasbord, but it's a time when you really sit down together & eat together & enjoy each other's fellowship together & get a little inspiration together.
         26. If you only meet & fellowship once a week, you're getting to be like the churches. I think you should fellowship every night at dinnertime.
         27. Lord help us to realise the importance of fellowship, the unity of spirit & mind & heart & body & presence. Your disciples were all together in one place, of one mind, of one heart & obedience, & there You were in the midst of them & You poured out Your Spirit upon them.
         28. We should value our fellowship time together & appreciate it & cherish it & honour it & count it a privilege.

         (See also No.249, 546, 617, 632, 752, 950, 1001, 1034, 1205, 1209, 1384, 1511, 1550.)

         29. PSA.119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts.
         30. MAL.3:16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His Name.
         31. MAT.18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them.
         32. ACT.2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
         33. ACT.2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
         34. ACT.14:27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
         35. HEB.10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
         36. 1JO.1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
         37. 1JO.1:6,7 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.

         (See also ACT.2:1,42-47.)

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