When I came to you brothers, I did not come to you with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ & Him crucified. I came to you in weakness & fear & with much trembling. My message & my preaching were not with wise & persuasive words but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. (1 Corinthians 2:1-5). Paul shared a simple message of Jesus Christ by allowing the Holy Spirit to guide his words. In sharing the Gospel with others, we should follow Paul's example & keep our message simple & basic. The Holy Spirit will give power to our words & use them to bring glory to God. Thank you Jesus. Good morning Holy Spirit. Prayer: Father, after we have converted to Christ, fill us with the Holy Spirit of truth. Give us the grace to avail ourselves willingly to Him so that He will lead us. In times of challenges, do a demonstration of the Spirit's power like you did in the case of Elijah & the 450 prophets of Baal. Guide our words & fill our hands with power. Command fire to come down from Heaven, & let it destroy all satanic plans against all your children. Send your angels to minister to our needs & to guard us. Protect & secure us by the blood of Jesus & the fire of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus mighty name we pray & believe, Amen. God bless you all.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds & write them on their hearts. I will be their God, & they will be My people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10-11). If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant & difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live the Christian way. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wanting to obey God. With new hearts, hearts of flesh & not hearts of stone, we will find that serving God is our greatest joy. Under God's new covenant, God's law is inside us & not outside, ie, on a tablet of stone. No, it's written in our hearts. It is no longer an external set of rules & principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our ...
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