Month: April 2024

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2 Corinthians 5 Day 2

For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. ⁵ Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

2 Corinthians 5:4-5

We have the very real hope of an eternal body/building from God to enjoy for eternity.  Jesus had a new body for us to see and know that we too will have a new body.  If a spirit needs a body to express itself, imagine having to spend eternity without the ability to express your thoughts, wants, and emotions.  God has prepared us for this eternity and has given us His Spirit to bring heaven and eternity into our lives now so that we will always be ready for then.  Maybe the deep fear is our spirit, concerning death, is the thought, in our spirit, of spending eternity without a body to love, praise, and live with God.  Let God prepare you now for then.

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2 Corinthians 5 Day 1

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:1

Don’t be discouraged by the aches and pains of this life, we have a destiny beyond this life.  We have hope because we have God’s word.  That’s why we live by faith, not by sight.  This old body that Adam left us with will end but there’s a new body Jesus leaves for those who believe Him.  And the presence of His Spirit is evidence of His promise for our spirit.  We will never be found naked nor needy in Jesus.  Be the Light!

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2 Corinthians 4 Day 5

¹⁶ Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 4:16

This is a most excellent picture of the Spirit’s influence on our spirit., renewing us every single day.  Without the Holy Spirit’s influence, we are restricted to living life on a human plain but with His influence, we can live on a heavenly plain.  We don’t lose heart because we see things from heaven, not here.

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2 Corinthians 4 Day 3

For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus’ sake.

2 Corinthians 4:5

Here’s an incredible step out of darkness and into the light; talk about Jesus, not yourself. 

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2 Corinthians 4 Day 2

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, ⁴ in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

It’s an amazing thing what we can’t see when we can’t hear and it’s maybe even more amazing what we can see when we can hear God.

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2 Corinthians 4 Day 1

​Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, ² but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4:1-2

Mercy creates ministry.  It happens in our lives as we receive the mercy God has for us.  Those who have truly received His mercy ministry can’t help but serve in His ministry of mercy.   His mercy is so marvelous that we will walk away from the misery and manipulation of sin.  Mercy releases us to live in the truth and speak the truth.  No man can take it away, it comes from God and is so powerful that it purifies even our conscience, the awareness of our spirit.  Believe and Receive. 

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2 Corinthians 3 Day 5

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

The Spirit, not sin, sets us free to be all that God has created us to be.  The Psalmist says, “in His right hand are pleasures forevermore.”  (Ps 16:11)  It’s glorious what God can and will bring into our lives if we learn to hear and honor Him with our lives.  The problem is that so many don’t know what real pleasure is, but the Holy Spirit hasn’t forgotten.  What He has is glorious, beautiful, and fulfilling and He has more for us than we could ever even imagine. 

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2 Corinthians 3 Day 4

 Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, ¹³ and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

2 Corinthians 3:12-13

You know when you’re in the presence of hope, you can hear it.  Where hope is real there is a boldness to share.  Love creates hope that inspires faith.  God’s love for us to live in His glory inspires hope that others will hear about because we truly believe in His love for us.

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2 Corinthians 3 Day 3

For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. 2 Corinthians 3:9

The ministry of the Holy Spirit is glorious.  This life in Jesus is lived, not by outside rules, but by an inside relationship.  It’s lived by the love, light, and life of the person of the Holy Spirit who now lives in us, and that life is glorious.  Believe it or not, many prefer the law of God to the life of God.  Even though the law is a life of condemnation, it still leaves us in control.  Receiving the glorious life of the Holy Spirit requires loss of control and surrendering to Him who lives in us.  It’s beautiful.

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2 Corinthians 3 Day 2

Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. ⁵ Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, ⁶ who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:4-6

Don’t give in and don’t give up; we can because He can and He lives in us who believe in Him.  He makes us adequate (able) because He is able and He lives in us.  We can walk in this new life because of what Jesus has done for us and to us.  Learn to live listening to the voice of His Spirit living in our hearts making us adequate for the day.