Relationships Case

God desires to empower you through the Holy Spirit to live a Christ-directed life. As you continue to breathe spiritually (confess your sin and claim the fullness of the Spirit), you will experience a deepening fellowship with God enabling you to grow in Christian maturity. Relationship first begins with God.

1 peter 2:2,3 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

2 Peter 1: 5-8 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, LOVE. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

These verses are some of the basic foundation for having a relationship with our Lord Jesus.

You may be asking yourselves what does this have to do with building up each other as women. It has a lot to do it; we a cannot minister half full or cannot give what we did not receive. In this relationship with our Lord, we receive, grace, peace, love and all the other fruits. Fruits is something that we share. For instance if you have a garden or fruit trees at harvest time you alone cannot contain all that it produces.

You have probably met and known many different people in your life. Most of them may simply be acquaintances, while others you might consider friends. Of these, there may be only a few that you would consider close friends.

Then, perhaps, there is that one person who is as close to you as a brother or sister or perhaps, as the Bible says, “is a friend that