Fellowship – Koinonia
2 Corinthians 13:14 NLT – “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”
The Greek word for “fellowship” is koinonia. The best definition of koinonia comes from Moulton and Milligan in the Vocabulary of the Greek Testament. Fellowship, koinonia, has the following meanings: to be in joint-participation, belonging in common, as in a partnership, association, and sharing in an intimate relationship.
So we have a fellowship with the Holy Spirit, which involves a common interest and a mutual, active participation in that interest and in each other.
We are to co-operate with God in a joint-participation with the Holy Spirit in a common endeavor of training our brain. The common endeavor is to have the truth be our brain’s operating system. We do not allow our brain to run us, but rather, we are responsible for running our brain, aligning our thought-life with truth that comes from God’s Word.
1 John 1:6 NLT – “So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.”
Participate, practice doing the truth! Say inside right now, “I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS GARBAGE IN MY BRAIN; THIS IS MY BRAIN TO RUN! IN JESUS’ NAME, I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE!!! Say it loudly (internally), be ferociously determined! It is your brain, use it the way God intended!
Today, decide to practice the truth ten times a day. Train your brain!
Training Your Brain Exercise – Become a Warrior
Become a warrior and join with the Holy Spirit. Open your eyes and unplug your ears to the sight and sound of war. The war comes in the form of lies we ingest. We have been consuming these lies since we were very little boys. Become God’s man and have fellowship with Him.
- Write down (journal) any lies that the Holy Spirit brings into your awareness that you currently are entertaining.
- For each lie, write down (journal) the truth that God wants you to believe.
- Say inside (not out loud) a point blank “NO” to the lie and practice the truth instead.
- Practice this truth 10 times today.
- Practice doing the truth and it will become you!
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