OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON UNITY AND SHARING RESOURCES

Cooperative economics is a business practice that can also develop our neighborhoods and communities and create jobs.  But, first, we must unite to govern ourselves and work together to build our own businesses, own our homes, create our own schools and hospitals and stop letting other people come into our area and take our money out.  We have the financial power: between our mega Churches, Athletes, movie stars, and entertainers to meet our shared economic, social, and cultural needs.  We can create and control our own enterprises if we work together and think about others as much as we do ourselves.

Ephesians 4:1-6 I, therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Father, help us realize that our survival depends on working together and sharing resources.  Lord, teach us how to work together to grow our own food, open and patronize our own businesses, and become a mutual aid society through our Churches and fraternal institutions to empower ourselves through cooperative economics.  Lord, our ancestors did things that we feel cannot be done today; when we are more intelligent and have more freedom and resources, why not.  Father, we have been programmed by segregation to be divided, so, Lord, reprogram us through the Spirit and bring unity and love back into our lives.   Teach us how to share our wisdom and knowledge with all people to help lift each other up and stop tearing each other down.  Jesus, the world can be a hateful and cruel place; we ask that You guide our actions as believers; give us an eagerness to be humble and kind to each other, and help us have a heart of patience and forbearance.  Lord, thank You for the hope we have in You, let that hope unify our thoughts and decisions, and invoke peace through the Spirit, in Jesus' name Amen.

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