The Importance of Unity

           Over the past week God has been etching in my heart the importance of Unity in the life of a believer and its essential role in the life of a church. Where there is Unity, there is life, where there id life there is the Spirit of God. And the reverse of that is true as well. Where there is division, there is death, where there is death, there is our foe Satan. God is not the author of division and he will not operate where there is not harmony or singleness of heart.  God gives this unity in a two ways, Personal and Corporately. A believer must move on in Personal unity before he can ever move into a corporate experience of Unity.

Individual Unity

What does it mean to have personal unity? Satan loves nothing more that to get us distracted, tainted or off focused. He does this to us individually by creating division in our heart. Look deeply at the words of God in almost every instance of God instructing us on how to seek him he uses words like “with all your heart” Trust in the Lord with…”all your heart.” Love the Lord your God…”with all your heart.” Seek ma and you will find me when you seek for me…”with all your heart. Do you realize the only way Satan has power in the life of a believer is when we give him that power? All of our struggles come in this life when we allow him to divide our heart.

We allow our heart to be divided by opposing “loves.”

            No person in their right mind would want their so-called “Love” to only love them with a part of their heart. Whether it is another person, a hobby or even a carrier no one wants to not be loved with all of his or her heart. What marriage would last if the Husband only loved his wife 364 days of the year but ran to the arms of another 1 day in that year? NO marriage would!

            God is no different and is perfectly just in asking for it. When we allow our heart to be divided by the love for “other things” it creates turmoil in our soul and feeds or temptation to sin. When know that this or that will not please God, yet in our soul we burn with desire. Why? Because we have allowed our heart to be divided in its love.

The Psalmist wrote in Psalm 86:11

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

May we go to God and ask God for this undivided heart. It is the only way to blessing, it is the only way power, it is the only way to intimacy and fruitfulness with God.

Corporate Unity

When we allow God to give us this new undivided heart, it rids us of the pride that creates division corporately. Why did Pentecost come? It was because they obeyed and waited, just as they were told to do. It is interesting how they waited. Notice how the Holy Spirit reveals to us this truth:

Acts 1, 13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. 

They waited in one accord, in Unity! The great blessing of power would have been withheld if unity had not been in the midst. Think of the 3,000 souls that would have not been rescued from the pit of hell that day. Think of the wonderful melody that was heard all through out the world in that day because the church was in one accord.

            What a great blessing to the soul to hear some one masterful play a piano. All the different notes and keys being masterful orchestrated in such way as produce melody. But also think of agony to hear a instrument that is not in harmony or a note that is not in accord with the rest of the piece. It is the same way here. How people in our day have not heard the masterful melody of the Spirit because we as a church were out of harmony with God and one another? Maybe we would see God moving again in a great move of revival, if we would allow God to remove any other “love” in our heart. So He could masterfully play his melody of grace across the strings of his harmonic church!

            Let us pray that God would work this in us tonight!