Isaiah 53:2-3
He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men
Last week I went to meet an elderly prophetess who is in her late eighties, living an extremely humble life. Once, a prophetically genuine friend of mine dreamt when this exact elderly prophetess owned a huge garden the size of the globe. In that dream she was seen allocating bits of her garden, the size of nations, to ministers of the gospel. These ministers would then rise to spiritual prominence in the countries that this humble and little known lady had in the spirit partitioned to them. If you did not have prior knowledge of the greatness of this meek woman, you would not give her a second look.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1 Corinthians 12:26
Every one of us Christians need to start thinking of ourselves collectively as a body because that is what we are in Christ who is our Head, Colossians 1:18. What happens to one part of a physical body which is symbolic of us the church, also affects the other parts. For this reason we need to actively promote the wellbeing of our sisters and brothers. If you are a pastor, then you must do what is in your power to see that other churches flourish for “we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another,” Romans 12:5.