Unity, please?

For the record, I believe in unity in the Body of Christ.  Like Hebrews 12:14 says, Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.  I believe that where there is no unity there can be no active Spirit of God.  How can Holy Spirit align Himself with a group of people who can't work together?  It's against His nature that when He is not welcome, He will not be force Himself in.

Likewise, I also believe that God is doing something in these last days.  He is raising us up and building us up in this last day to be the Bride that He has foreseen through the ages - a people of Presence (Rom. 8:9; Acts 5:31), a people of power (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8), a people of praise (Acts 16:25-28; Psalm 100), a people of prestige (Gal. 5:22-23; 1 Cor. 10:31), a people of placement (Gen. 12:4; Acts 9:17), a people of prayer (John 14:14; Heb. 4:14-16), a people of peace (Phil. 4:6-8; John 14:27), a people of proclamation (1 Cor. 1:18; Rom. 1:16), a people of peculiarity (1 Pet. 2:9-10; Deut. 32:9), a people of purpose (Jer. 29:11; Rom. 8:28-30), a people of passion (Luke 19:10; Rom. 10:9-10), a people who are called by His name (2 Chr. 7:14).


I just want to share something that God has recently laid on my heart.  It's almost a reoccurring theme, though.  The theme of unity.  Holy Spirit showed me the following along with the sermonette above.

If God be for us, who can be against us? - Romans 8:31
In all things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - Romans 8:37
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. - Revelation 12:11
Lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices. - 2 Corinthians 2:11
On this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  I give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loosed on earth shall be loosed in heaven. - Matthew 16:18-19

Notice some of the key terms.  If God be for US, WE are more than conquerors, THEY overcame, WE are not ignorant.  If you're a believer in Jesus, His life, death, and resurrection, this includes you.  If you're a believer, you're a part of the single, most beautiful thing in existence.  If you're a believer, you and I have more things in common than we don't.  We are the Church - not a denominationally, racially, culturally, economically divided institution.  We, cumulatively, are His bride, the ones He is coming back for soon.  When we separate ourselves from the rest of the Body, there's no power in us nor any potential for the things God has foreseen through the ages about us.  We are in this thing together.  We stand beside each other in battles, we weep when one another weeps, we rejoice when one another rejoices, we encourage one another, we lift up one another in prayer, we are with each other until the end (Side note..  Church people who believe in you and what God's called you to do don't know how to help if you don't tell them what you're dealing with).  We've got to remember that whether we're Baptist, Methodist, Assemblies of God, Presbyterian, we're with each other.  We've got to remember this!

Last few things - 1. the sermonette above, it's a people.  A people is not you nor I by ourselves.  It's more than one.  It's the Body.  2. I'm convinced that the power that came in Acts 2 partially happened because the disciples were gathered in one mind and one accord in Acts 1:14.

We're called!