The Company of Faith

The 6th Stage of Faith

Faith is protons - positive energy (David E. Taylor). The people you hang around with can drain or fill your energy, distract or focus your energy, corrupt or enhance your energy. The company you keep influences your actions, your character, and your productivity. Be around people that are like minded and going where you are going. Be around those that can take you higher and increase your faith.

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The company you keep will influence your actions

Acts 6:7 7And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Prov. 13:20 20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Prov. 22:24 24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: 25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

1 Cor. 5:9 9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

1 Cor. 15:33 33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Ps. 1:1 1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Ps. 26:4 4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. 5I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

The company you keep will increase your faith

Rom. 15:24 24Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.

Prov. 27:17 17Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

The company you keep can be your team

Matt. 4:18 18And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 19And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. 20And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. 21And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 22And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

Gen. 11:6 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.