Father God,

Today, I pray for a welling up of real fellowship among Your children. We live in a world where the simple ability to communicate with one another is being lost to the point that relationships are formed and lost repeatedly like passing winds blowing one way and then the next. I pray that deep wells of nourishing water would be dug by brothers and sisters in Christ instead of trying to pass from one narrow spring to the next.

I pray that we would each one allow Your Spirit to work in us to deepen our wells until they are filled with water that can quench the thirst of a multitude for community. I pray we would then each learn to reach deep into each other’s wells of fellowship to drink deeply from each other’s lives. I pray that together, we would live and walk drinking deeply from the bonds of mutual Christian loving one another.

Teach us that true bonds of fellowship go beyond a monthly fellowship meal, beyond 5 minutes of small talk after a service, beyond a casual but empty promise to pray for one another that is at best kept by a fleeting “God, please help them”. Teach us how to walk together, mourn together, to rejoice together, to pray together, to comfort one another, to edify one another, to even rebuke one another in love.

Forgive us for having lost the call to love one another in the body of Christ.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.