Unity:
Two agree about what they ask:
18 “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
19 “Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.
Talk about powerful! Again, the idea
isn’t that we happen to decide on binding or loosing something, and then God
goes along with it. The idea is that they have already been bound or loosed in
Heaven. We determine that we should follow suit here on earth. Then God puts it
into effect here as it already is in Heaven.
Being a mathematician, I don’t like
the word anything in verse 19. Suppose I have ten very desirable objects on my
desk and say, “Take anything from my desk”. Some people would only take one
object thinking I meant any one thing. Others might take two or three. And
still others would take all of them. However, if I say take everything from my
desk, there is no mistaking what I meant. That’s the idea here. It’s not just
that the two or three happen to agree on some one thing that they may ask, and
that’s what would be done for them and not the rest that they didn’t agree
on. It means that they are in total
agreement about everything they may ask. That unity brings about the results
desired.
If you could hear God speak, I believe this is what He would
say:
"My
children, you have no idea how much power you have together. You have no idea
how much you could accomplish for My Kingdom if you would work together. You
can do all things through Me provided you work together. There is nothing you
cannot do when you cooperate with Me and with one another. This is not
optional. You must work together for the good of My Kingdom. You cannot
accomplish anything of value apart from Me or apart from one another. I have
planned it that way so that you must cooperate with one another. Together you
can overcome the devil. Apart, you are food for his delight. He will devour you
if you try to operate outside of Me or outside of one another. He cannot
overcome you if you work together in Me. You are a solid rock when you work
together in Me.”
81. I will operate in
unity with my fellow believers. Therefore just two of us agreeing on everything
we ask can be certain that whatever we ask shall be done.
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