Fellowship With Our Brothers And Sisters In Christ

 Fellowship in the life of a believer should be both vertical and horizontal. The importance of taking time to commune in private with our Heavenly Father cannot be sufficiently emphasized, but also our horizontal Fellowship With Our Brothers And Sisters In Christ is also of vital importance, and should not be ignored or dismissed.
 We are in the world but we are not of the world. However, we are surrounded on every side by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life,. Christians that choose to forsake joining together with other believers in Christian fellowship (as the Body of Christ), isolate themselves from the encouragement, exhortation, correction, and reproof of their brothers and sisters in Christ.
 This verse is encouragement for all believers to be faithful in attending their local church assembly, in order to participate in brotherly encouragement, strength, support, edification, spiritual nourishment, biblical teaching, and the joy of sharing fellowship with like-minded believers.
 Sadly, this verse is often used in some denominations and Christian communities to insist that church attendance is legally binding on their members, which places their whole congregation in bondage to man-made legalism. But Christ Himself promised that when two or three were gathered together in His name, He would be there in their midst.
 Let us do all we can to ensure that we do not forsake our assembling together as the Body of Christ, as is the habit of some believers, but rather let us take every opportunity to meet together with like-minded brothers and sisters in Christ for mutual strength, support, edification, and encouragement so that we can give and receive spiritual nourishment and sound biblical teaching together with like-minded believers.
 This is all the more important, as we see the day of Christ's return drawing ever nearer.
not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You that we are part of the Body of Christ. May we understand the importance of meeting regularly with our brothers and sisters in Christ, especially in these days in which we live before Your return . We pray that we may actively seek out opportunities to meet together with other Christians so that together we may give mutual encouragement and motivate one another toward godly love and good works. As the world becomes increasingly dark, we pray that none of us would fall into the trap of becoming isolated in our Christian walk, but we would grow in grace and wisdom and in a knowledge of You, enjoying godly fellowship and sound teaching. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.