Monday, September 14, 2015

Pray for our youth . 9/14/15

Saints, 
Pray that unclean spirits don't harass and visit our youth. Pray the Lord would protect what they hear and see. 
Day 255- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/2Cor.7

2 Corinthians 7

7 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body[a] and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

Paul's Joy

2 Make room in your hearts[b] for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. 3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. 4 I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.

5 For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. 6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, 7 and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. 8 For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.

10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. 12 So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God. 13 Therefore we are comforted.

And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. 14 For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true. 15 And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling. 16 I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you.


Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

The church — not an afterthought September 14th

“To the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known through the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.” EPHESIANS 3:10

In this verse Paul reveals that the manifold wisdom of God is to be made known through the church. Then immediately, so that we will not put the church on a low level or think lightly of it, Paul adds a qualifying phrase, “according to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord” (v. 11). “Made” comes from the Greek verb poieo (poiewv ) and can also be translated “produced.” This shows that the church is not an afterthought of God’s, but rather it is the chief priority of His heart. The church was produced in the sphere of Christ Jesus our Lord according to the eternal purpose. Thus, the church is not an expedience to God, to accommodate some problem in the universe. The church is the good pleasure of His will. It is what He prefers above all else. It is what He has cherished and kept hidden in His heart from ages past.

The administration of the mystery is the church meeting on this earth according to what was conceived in eternity past and produced on the cross — nothing more and nothing less. The church cannot be man’s innovation or man’s creation. The church is the place where God’s manifold wisdom is displayed. Ephesians 3:10 says that God’s manifold wisdom to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places is made known through the church. In other words, thechurchastheekklesia(ekjklhsiva)—thecalledoutones,the assembled, gathered saints — is God’s administrative unit on this earth and in this universe.

It is an awesome thing in the universe that the church is on this earth. Because of this, God’s administration has a way to be worked out. Not only do we enjoy the riches of Christ, but we are gathered as the church where this administration is displayed and opened up.

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