Pastor Reginald Walker
SENIOR PASTOR | WORD OF FAITH CHRISTIAN CENTER | VICKSBURG, MS
Welcome to day six of our 30 days of prayer campaign. I am Reginald Walker, Senior Pastor of Word of Faith Christian Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. My assignment for this year is praying for unity and fellowship in the body of Christ.
As the coordinator of our racial harmony picnic here in Vicksburg, this is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. As fellow members of the body of Christ, we have been made family by His blood. There is an old adage that goes, “You can’t choose your friends but you can’t choose your family.” The A portion of Ephesians 2:14 in the Amplified reads, “For He is [Himself] our peace (our bond of unity and harmony).” Christ has made us one.
In His prayer for us to His Father in John 17, Jesus expressed four times that we would be one. For our prayers to be effective, we must pray according to the Father’s will and His will is clearly seen in these two passages. God desires for us to be unified because where there is unity, there is multiplied strength. There is a synergy created by our oneness. The unity that God requires and desires is developed through fellowship.
The aforementioned picnic here in Vicksburg affords us the opportunity to fellowship and to give us a chance to see that even if our brothers and sisters don’t look like us, they laugh like us, they live like us. In John 13:34, Jesus said, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” Then He went on to say, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” By visible love, men will see that we are His disciples. Let’s pray today for unity and fellowship within the body so that the world outside the body might know that we are His.