FAITH CAPSULE Agreement or disagreement is a clear identity of Christian body.
Acts 12:1-19
Agreement is an act of agreeing; it is a state of being in accord. Agreement is accord, compromise, compatible, consistency, complying, and reconciliation. Agreement is not disagreement, dissent, disharmony, discord, disunity, dissimilarity, dissention, divorce. Are you in fellowship of two, three, four or many fellowship with identity of agreement or disagreement? The roots of disagreement are lying, deception and manipulation. Agreement or disagreement is always identity of Christian body.
As an acclaimed believer, where do you stand?
Is your fellowship rooted on God’s direction or building a tower of Babel?
When the people began to build the tower of Babel their agreement was not rooted on God. The people were agreeing outside of God; they wanted to build for self not God. Building outside of your Creator is uncompromising, a disagreement with the only Creator. The people stated, “…Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4) The people arrived to build babel without agreement with their Creator. God responded to their construction stating, “…Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.” (Genesis 11:6)
Are you in agreement to make name for self or for God, your only Creator?
God cannot be counted outside of our engagement.
Take note that there is power in agreement when God is the center of our engagement. Jesus testified the power of agreement, “…if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:19-20) The power of agreement is coming together for the glory of God not for self-glorification. In the name of Jesus, coming together in agreement is power to manifestation. Once, Peter was facing death like that of James, the brother of John that was killed by King Herod. There was no way out for Peter to escape the hand of Herod. It is written, “And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.”(Acts 12:6) Peter’s deliverance came through when, “…prayer was offered to God for him by the church.” (Acts 12:5) The church’s coming together constantly in agreement delivered Peter. Man shut the door on Peter, but prayer of agreement before God opened the door and Peter escaped sudden death by the hand of God through the power of coming together in agreement.
Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from religion and place you into Christ reality.