a wise little paper on Unity, by Matt Barker

Jesus not only sees how a person is,but who he is going to be in response to the love poured and recieved into his/ her life. This is the mind of Christ, to love despite Judgement of shortcomings. To be wise in the pouring of Love with awareness to surrounding situations and circumstances of individuals. To be an offering with no agenda but to meet a child of God where He/she truly needs to be met. This, I urge you to adhere to, takes much prayer and a true desire to know what troubles a child of God. So often we want to look for the immediate solution and I do believe that the Lord gives "words of knowledge" but I also strongly believe the Lord desires to call us into relationship. This means that many of the struggles "we" minister to people in are not going to just be resolved, they must be walked through in relationship. WE must truly learn how to be ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We must search beyond our comfort zone, we must truly love a person. In this many times the saying may be true, "out of sight, out of mind." Living Life in Unity
If combined a word of knowledge and true fellowship will be tools in freeing a person from bondage and bringing them closer to Christ in a way that is written in their heart. A seed planted, watered and Grown. at times we must do all three. Rarely only one consistantly.

PLanting seeds- single serving conversations about the Lord. Powerful words of knowledge and prayer.

Watering- If you don't give a plant water consistantly it will wither. Pouring out love through wisdom on a consistant basis.

Growing- The Lord ultimately works all three, through ways I belive at times only He can truly understand. I believe the growth process is the stage of Decipleship. When we begin to grow in the LOrd. In ways we begin to recieve the first two stages over again, replanting and watering.

My point is that we must be willing to operate in all three stages of the Harvest.