...Community...

As I was praying and meditating the other day, the Lord showed me something. Community sounds like Come Unity. We need to continue to pray for unity to come if we truly want to be a community. In Merriam Websters Dictionary, community is defined as: a. a unified body of individuals; b. the people with common interests living in a particular area; c. an interacting population of various kinds of individuals in a common location; d. a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society. Take time to think about the definition of community. Then let us go to work on the next part of what God taught me.

What is that? That Satan has strongholds here in our area that need broken down so that we can truly be a community. I thought about how walls were built in Bible times to create strongholds. I also thought about how armies came against those strongholds. (Reading through Ezekiel, you can understand this by looking at Babylon and what they did to Israel.) They built siege works around the walls and controlled what came in and out of a place. Which usually meant nothing was going into that place and therefore people would begin to starve. They would then work on tearing down the walls.

I believe that we need to lay siege to the walls Satan has built around our area. We need to begin to starve these strongholds until Satan is defeated and the walls have been torn down. There is a song we used to sing that went like this: The walls will come down with the shout of praise; The walls will come down with the shout of joy; The walls will come down with a shout of triumph; To the Lord God Almighty! Take these words to heart and let us continue to seek the Lord so that we can lay siege to the enemies strongholds and destroy what he has built up in this area. Satan is defeated! May we truly be able to call our selves a community. Come Unity, Come!