Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Unity of His Spirit. 9/1/15

Day 242- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/1Cor.12


1 Corinthians 12

 Concerning Spiritual Gifts
12 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.

 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

 Unity and Diversity in the Body
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

 15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues[d]? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

A life of withdrawing September 1st

 “You also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.” 2 CORINTHIANS 1:11
We must realize that all of the pressures we face in our environments are continuous calls to us to spend more time with the Lord. Even our fleshly disposition with its negative reactions, lusts, and moods is another call and a sign that we need to withdraw and pray. The apostle Paul also faced many difficult situations, such as the one he describes in 2 Corinthians 1:8: “For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.” Here, not only did Paul face a desperate environment, but he also had to handle his reactions of despair to the environment. Yet in verse 11 he could testify that God would deliver him by means of prayer. We must see that the practice of withdrawing to pray and spend time with the Lord should increasingly become a normal part of our Christian life. The Greek word translated withdraw (hupochoreo) in Luke 5:16 is a compound word made up of two prepositions, one meaning under and the other meaning apart. The combination of these two words indicates that He withdrew into privacy. He separated Himself “apart” in privacy to be with the Father. If we desire to cultivate our love-life with the Lord, we will surely discover the Lord Himself moving in us, prodding us to withdraw from all the empty talk and looseness in our living in order to spend more time with Him. To practice withdrawing we need a vision, and this simply means having before us a vision of the kind of life the Lord Jesus lived on this earth spending time with the Father. He was continuously withdrawing to cultivate and nourish His life with the Father. This is how He expressed God. And this is the life that is now within us. It is a life of withdrawing.

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