Month: June 2024

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2 Corinthians 12 Day 5

Here for this third time, I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. ¹⁵ I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

2 Corinthians 12:14-15

Here is the real motivation of real ministry.  Here is the real key to successful mission and ministry that only the Holy Spirit can develop in our hearts when we let Him love us and love through us.

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2 Corinthians 11 Day 4

No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:14

The spirit we live with is attached to the word we live by.  Be careful what you listen to or allow time for in your head.  People were trying to discredit Paul, expressing, I’m sure, that they just wanted what was best for everyone involved.  They wanted to discredit and disqualify Paul for their own means.  The devil always dresses up deception.  It’s never total evil, it’s always perverted good.   Don’t let someone else make your decision about others for you, seek God, and know your true friends.

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2 Corinthians 2 Day 3

For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

2 Corinthians 11:4

Deception lives in words and so do demons.  The spirit we live with will be directly tied to the words we listen to.  Where there is agreement, there is authority, good or evil.  Listen to the words!  This life is lived by revelation, not by rules.

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2 Corinthians 11 Day 2

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3

Remember this, love is simple.  There’s not a lot of questions, just a passion for God.  It’s deception that becomes difficult, entangling us in the drama of the “what ifs”. Keep it simple, love God.

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2 Corinthians 11 Day 1

​I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me. ² For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.

2 Corinthians 11:1-2

Here’s a little key to a big life in Jesus, find someone who has a godly jealousy for you to know Christ.  This person might not be visible immediately, but you’ll know them.  They will want you to know the Jesus they know, and to know the life of Jesus they know.  It won’t be about “who” they are but about “who” He is and what He has done in their life.  Find that person and stay close.  They may not be the best speaker, or storyteller, or wear the best suits, but God loves you through them.  Stay close and appreciative of that person God has put in your life.

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2 Corinthians 10 Day 5

But HE WHO BOASTS IS TO BOAST IN THE LORD. ¹⁸ For it is not he who commends himself that is approved, but he whom the Lord commends

2 Corinthians 10:17-18

We get into trouble when we talk about ourselves and our friends more than our God.  Did you ever notice that it’s easier to talk about the bad things we’ve done than the good things we;ve done. It seems like people accept or tolerate the bad and ugly more than they do the good and beautiful.  But when we talk about Jesus, who He is, and what He’s done, it changes the surroundings for good.

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2 Corinthians 10 Day 4

For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

2 Corinthians 10:12

When our metrics become human, our mind becomes earthly.  When our understanding becomes horizontal, our spirit can’t live in what’s vertical.  Seeking to be wise in the eyes of this world we lose our freedom to the eyes of the underworld.

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2 Corinthians 10 Day 3

For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame, ⁹ for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters 2 Corinthians 10:8-9

When our thoughts are taken captive for God, our words can be used by God.  There is no shame in the words God gives us to know or to share.  Shame isn’t in God’s repertoire and it doesn’t belong in ours either. 

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2 Corinthians 10 Day 2

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, ⁶ and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete

2 Corinthians 10:5-6

You know what we’re doing?  We’re taking ungodly words & thoughts captive; that’s what we’re doing.  Because the root of a thing is a thought.  If we never deal with the thought of a thing, we will never deal with the thing that contaminates and controls us.  When we deal with, and repent of, the thought of a thing, we will know the truth to walk away from what is false and into the life of what is real.

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2 Corinthians 10 Day 1

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. ³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, ⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses

2 Corinthians 10:2-4

Don’t worry about meeting me in the flesh, worry about meeting me in the Spirit.  And don’t worry about meeting people in the flesh but wait till you start meeting people in the Spirit.  The Spirit of God operates with divine power for the destruction of fortresses, hellish ways, where people are hold up in sinful thoughts.  The Spirit of God in us has the sight and the strength to take out our enemy’s ways and works.