We Need Each Other

We need each other. In Ecclesiastes 4:11-12 NKJV it reads...
"Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm;
But how can one be warm alone?
Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.
And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
There is strength in numbers.
It is important who we are linking ourselves with also. Mathew 18:20 Jesus said.."For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
Now that's power in agreement. Get together in purpose for God and Jesus is there too.
I am so very thankful for the connections in ministry that God has made for me. I am associated with an incredible group of people who work with me in Children's ministry. I NEED each one of them! I could not and would not do what I do alone. No man is an island. We need networking and connection in the body of Christ to function properly. Hands, feet, eyes, nose ,ears, and toes etc. ALL equally important.
1 Corinthians 12:14-31 in the Message Bible says...

14-18I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.

19-24But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but a monster. What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own. Can you imagine Eye telling Hand, "Get lost; I don't need you"? Or, Head telling Foot, "You're fired; your job has been phased out"? As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way—the "lower" the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary. You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach. When it's a part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor just as it is, without comparisons. If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn't you prefer good digestion to full-bodied hair?

25-26The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don't, the parts we see and the parts we don't. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance.

27-31You are Christ's body—that's who you are! You must never forget this.

Well, we need each other!
I am thankful for all of my co-laborers in Christ! I APPRECIATE each of you!
Together we will walk the road ahead that God is leading us on.
We are Living the Adventure, Together!


I am challenging all who read this today...Hook into the Body! God has designed a place for you to be ALL he needs you to be! When you get connected and begin to see the workings of a fully functioning body, the way he intended, then you will experience the greatest satisfaction in knowing you are where you are supposed to be, doing what only you could do, to see his will accomplished!