THE FRUITFULNESS OF FRIENDSHIP

“I have called you friends.” — John 15:15

We do not truly understand the joy of giving ourselves to God until we completely surrender to Him.

Many times, our surrender sounds like:

“I will do it if…”
“Well, I suppose I have to give my life to God.”

There is no real joy in surrender when we are still holding back.

But when we truly surrender ourselves to Jesus, the Holy Spirit begins to show us the joy that Jesus had in doing the Father's will.

Jesus is our example. He said:

> “I delight to do Thy will, O my God.” — Psalm 40:8



Jesus did not obey God with constant complaints. He willingly gave Himself because He loved the Father.

Is Jesus truly first in my life?

Self-sacrifice has no real value if Jesus is not at the centre of it.

We may sacrifice our time, money, comfort, or relationships, but the most important question is:

Am I doing it because I love Jesus?

When our eyes are fixed on Jesus, surrender becomes an expression of love rather than a burden.

Love like Jesus

We must also be careful not to allow our personal preferences to control who we love.

Sometimes we naturally feel closer to certain people because we have similar interests, personalities, or backgrounds. But as Christians, Jesus should be our greatest connection.

Christian love is not simply about loving people we naturally like.

It means learning to love people the way God loves them.

Jesus said:

> “I have called you friends.”



This friendship with Jesus is based on the new life He gives us, not our old nature.


True friendship with Jesus produces a life of surrender, love, and obedience.

When we truly love Jesus:
We willingly surrender to Him.
We find joy in doing His will.
We stop living only for ourselves.
We learn to love people beyond our natural preferences.
Our lives become more like His.

The more we love Jesus, the more we will desire to give our lives to Him.

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The things the Lord have against us.
Revelation 2 Kullie Mawolo
[vs: 14] But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
These verse reveals to us that though the Lord is always glad of some good things we have done there may some areas in our life which he is not happy with, we should not be content in the areas we are doing well but should strive to be sound in all areas of our spiritual life.
"What are the areas that Christ is not happy with the pergamos church?
1,torerance of false prophets and teachers.
2, permission of false doctrines . 
3, accepting practices that became stumbbling blocks among them 
4, eating things sacrificed to idols 
5, prevailing acts of fornication.
From all these we understand that when any church or individual begins to allow false prophets and teachers and their teachings the results will be backsliding and sins
there is a strong connection between false doctrines and a lifestyle of sin.
*Any doctrine that downplays sin, make sin less serious than it is, excuses sin, make people to fear  not God's judgement against sin, teaches that grace covers our sinful lifestyle is a false doctrine.
False teachers being religious secret sinners can only lead the people that hears them to error,  sin and damnation. 
Application:
We should not hear , believes or follow those that teaches any doctrine that contradicts the biblical truths .


23 August 2026

One failing of the American church today - there are surely others as well, but I'm going to focus on this one - is the lack of connection. The book of Acts tells us that the church met daily. House to house. Breaking bread. Of course with fellowship, and that would mean mutual support.

Now that does not mean we have to meet together every day. Nor does it mean that we must go from house to house. Our modern culture and society is different. And that's ok. We don't have to copy, to the detail, the methods of that time.

But the spirit of the idea should remain the same. But when the normal for us is to show up three minuets before the beginning of the Sunday morning service, and be in our cars driving away three minutes after the final benediction, we're never going to have connection with our fellow believers. You can't offer a quick handshake and a "how are you doing?" and a "good to see you," as we pass on down the aisle toward our own seat, and call that "being friendly."

You could do that every Sunday morning for years and never actually know the other person. Some of us remember when after Sunday morning church, we'd either invite someone to come have dinner at our house, or have someone invite us to theirs. It is over a meal that you get to know the person. What is that person, or that family going through right now? What might be the struggles they're dealing with?

But we seem to live in a time when nobody wants to know anything about our neighbor. That person, or that family who sits in the pew in front of us, or behind us. And we don't want anyone else to know about us either. Certainly not know our business. But that's not the accurate definition of a "body of Believers."

So what are we going to do to change that? Or would we rather keep it as it is. It's more tidy that way, we believe, and that's the way we seem to like it. But that is not the way of the church.

DO STEP-PARENTS MATTER?
SYNOPSIS: (NOTE: before you pre-judge and fire off a comment, please READ THE FULL ARTICLE at the "Them Before Us" link.) The children come first! Nick Spencer, founder of Them Before Us (TBU), explains that children have a fundamental right to their biological mother and father, stating that every child is conceived by one man and one woman. The group distinguishes between adoption and remarriage, which they view as adults stepping in to provide stability for children after a pre-existing tragedy; compared to surrogacy or donor conception, which they define as adults intentionally, to satisfy their own desires, causing via IVF a child’s loss of biological connection. READ MORE: https://agape-restoration-society.org/ARC-News/a-n_2026-08-15.htm#article_4

The devil can't take our salvation but there are 10 things he is trying to steal from us: Our identity, values, worship, convictions, prayer life, integrity, influence, courage , future & destiny. This message is drawing the connection with Daniel living in Babylon & us as believers in today's world around us, which has all the hallmarks of the Babylonian System. Hence the title: "10 things Babylon is trying to steal from us."
https://youtu.be/GEzFapNkj_w
Slides & reel available also on:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1532395245594742&set=pcb.1532425478925052

We concluded our last Discipleship training week of the year
Thanks to everyone for the prayer and financial support Alpha Worship Connection is humbled for trust.
To our connectors that we continue to train every week and they were able also to teach in this conference thanks. Betty and Amuge Angela
Now our eyes get to focus on the #worshipleadersgathering!
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