Fellowshiping Until Daybreak

[S] Acts 20:11-12 --
 ¹¹When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left. ¹²They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted

[O] Right after the young man, Eutychus, fell from third floor and died Paul went down and declared that he still had life in him (v.10) then he went back up to the upper room and spent the rest of the night fellowship and sharing with the people.  There is something to be said about the people just hanging out to share about how good God is and how powerful He is without a sense of time passing.  Verse 12's mentioning of the boy indeed being alive shows how they had the fullness of life in their midst.  This is a model of Christian fellowship where God's life is displayed in the midst and "stickiness" of wanting to stay together.

[A] I need to figure out how I can replicate this in my own Christian fellowship.  It's been a while since I had these all-night talks about how wonderful God is.

[P] Dear Father, please let me be around those who I can share such a time as Paul with the people in the Upper Room.  I long for this type of a relationship and yet I seem to be alone at the end of the day.  Please send around me the brother/sisters who may share lives closely because Your power and "liveliness" doesn't seem to end.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.