READ II Corinthians 8 COMMENTARY: : 4      Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. (2842 “fellowship” [koinonia] means communion, distribution, association, community, joint participation, intimacy, the act of having, giving, or receiving a shore of something, or especially within a group or partnership.) DEVOTION:  Here we find that Paul is still talking about the collection of money for the believers in Jerusalem because of the famine. They had promised to provide money for Paul and some other men to deliver to help with the needs in the Jerusalem church. It was something that needed to happen to encourage all believers that when trouble came there would be other believers around to help them with whatever assistance they needed. He tells of the deep poverty in…