GOD NEVER GIVES UP ON US
I Corinthians 1:9 "God Himself is right alongside to keep you steady and on track until things are all wrapped up by Jesus. He will never give up on you." Amazing to know that God Himself will never be angry with us again. HE is committed to us and our well being, whatever that may look like. Loved with a Love we can never lose. We do know it looks like this--- He is leading us to collect a following for Him.
Col. 1:17 says: "God didn't send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done." And it's not about finding the right words to do it either or the message would be trivialized into words.
DEMONSTRATION OF THE POWER OF GOD
I Cor 2:4 Your life of faith is a response to God's power. Paul didn't think that he came with wise words but in fear and trembling. A demonstration of a life dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit so that our faith rests not on people and what they bring to us but on the power of God. And we have seen and heard it because God by His Spirit has brought it all out into the open before each of us. Never imagined anything quite like it. I Cor 6:9.
PRESENT IN THE MOMENT
I Cor 3:16 - "You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God Himself is present in you?"
He is always present. But the real question is do I live a life where I am always present in the moment. Or am I living in the past wishing for days gone by. Am I living in the future hoping that things will be different? Do I stay with my family and my friends in the present moment? Or am I too busy trying to manage my life to make it work better?
WHO REALLY KNOWS YOUR HEART
I Cor 4:7 "For who do you know that really knows you, knows your heart? And even if they did, is there anything they would discover in you that you could take credit for? Isn't everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? So what's the point of all this comparing and competing? "God's Way is not a matter of mere talk; it's an empowered life." I Cor 4:20
After reading your Word, I am convinced: "You've not promised to protect me in this life from things that scare the daylights out of me or to provide me with what I think I need to trust You. But what You have promised is to change me, to make me enough like Your Son that I'll be able to love You and love others no matter what goes on in me or in my life, no matter what struggle with or how many bad things happen to me." 66 LL. Please change me today! Help me to be present in the moment where I am.
1 Cor 1:1-2 – Paul was called, sent. Believers at Corinth were cleaned up and set apart. Jesus did it and does it for us—it’s not anything we can be prideful for, or take credit.
ReplyDelete1 Cor 2:10 - “No one's ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—What God has arranged for those who love him. But you've seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.”
1 Cor 3:16-17 – “You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple.”
I Cor 4:7-8 - “You already have all you need. You already have more access to God than you can handle.”