1 Samuel 22: 1-2
22 Then David left and fled to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's house knew it, they came to him there.
23 And all the afflicted, and all who were in debt, and all who were in bitterness of spirit, came together with him, and were made chief of them; and he had about four hundred men with him.
Many times we only see the church of the Lord as a hospital of souls, where we will only heal our wounds, receive comfort and encouragement. That is not the only purpose of the church of Christ, many congregate just for that reason and do not finish understanding that beyond the healings that God gives us both physical and soul we are part of an army, we are part of the spiritual force of the kingdom of God.
As part of that force we are called to preach the word of God and continue to recruit disciples willing to follow the steps of the Master and thus continue to spread the Kingdom here on earth. Certainly when we arrive at the church we are a pile of wounds and we get hit by the world just as these men came with David to the cave of Adulam, just as David did The Lord Jesus receives us in his church welcomes us, cleanses us and it restores us, however this is only part of the functions. Let's illustrate it, imagine the church as a large building where the first floor we reach is the part of the hospital where after helping us, cleaning us and restoring us, we MUST NOT stay there, as we must continue to advance in the house of God. For something the Lord gave authority to the church that our Lord Jesus conquered on the cross to destroy the works of the enemy.
Once we are reconnected with the Kingdom of God, that we are healthy, clean and we are already standing, begin our training and our progression to maturity and strengthening our relationship with our Heavenly Father that we all should have since only then we can develop the fatherhood of God that generates IDENTITY, PURPOSE AND DESTINY powerful weapons to understand the legal Spiritual battle that exists and that many ignore and that is causing great defeats and losses in areas where we do not know what is happening for this we must understand the power of the prayer as SON of GOD that we must develop.
The fatherhood of God is a foundation that God has chosen to build the structure of his church because without understanding what it is to BE a child of God, without that foundation God himself can not reveal us more and we lose authority, Jesus in his journey on earth He lived in this way totally convinced of his identity in God, of knowing, understanding and applying his right here on earth as a child of God, and this is the way God longs for us to live totally convinced of being his children and as such behaving ourselves.
YOU ARE A WARRIOR OF GOD