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2 Corinthians 3

Servants of God’s New Agreement

1 Why are we beginning again to tell you all these good things about ourselves? Do we need letters of introduction to you or from you, like some other people? 2 No, you yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts. It is known and read by all people. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ that he sent through us. This letter is not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. It is not written on stone [a] tablets but on human hearts.

Paul said that any of the preacher can't be proud to what they have done as they lead a person to Christ, there's the work of the holy spirit not themselves. We become Christian not because of the skill or technique of the preacher, but with the holy spirit in us that make us believe in him and live for him.

4 We can say this, because through Christ we feel sure before God. 5 I don’t mean that we are able to do anything good ourselves. It is God who makes us able to do all that we do. 6 He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. It is not an agreement of written laws, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

no one of us can be proud of what they done. All glory must to God and we must be humble. None of us can work alone without help of the holy spirit, we are limited. As a believer, we need God's special gift and strength in us.

An Agreement With Greater Glory

7 The old agreement [b] that brought death, written with words on stone, came with God’s glory. In fact, the face of Moses was so bright with glory (a glory that was ending) that the people of Israel could not continue looking at his face. 8 So surely the new agreement that comes from the life-giving Spirit has even more glory. 9 This is what I mean: That old agreement judged people guilty of sin, but it had glory. So surely the new agreement that makes people right with God has much greater glory. 10 That old agreement had glory. But it really loses its glory when it is compared to the much greater glory of the new agreement. 11 If the agreement that was brought to an end came with glory, then the agreement that never ends has much greater glory.

12 We are so sure of this hope that we can speak very openly. 13 We are not like Moses, who put a covering over his face. He covered his face so that the people of Israel would not see it. The glory was disappearing, and Moses did not want them to see it end. 14 But their minds were closed. And even today, when those people read the writings of the old agreement, [c] that same covering hides the meaning. That covering has not been removed for them. It is taken away only through Christ. 15 Yes, even today, when they read the Law of Moses, there is a covering over their minds. 16 But when someone changes and follows the Lord, that covering is taken away. 17 The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And our faces are not covered. We all show the Lord’s glory, and we are being changed to be like him. This change in us brings more and more glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

What we can do is pray and baptized in his spirit and we show the Lord's glory and we being changed to be like Christ and this change brings us more glory, which comes from Lord. Amen.

Thanks God. Praise the Lord. All of us have a breakthrough today. I love the prayer meeting today. I'm excited to join the prayer meeting as that's my very 1st time to join the youth to pray together.

When I reach church, I'm the 2nd person who reach and after that Stephanie lead us to start on prayer. We learn to speak in tongue and pray out loud. Few of us gather and pray. There is Stephanie, Angeline, Jun Jun, David, Olivia, Yong Qi, Rachel, Philip and others. That's break my personal record that I pray in tongue in an hour. When I pray, I feel God's spirit in me,likes fire burning...like wind... and in my mind I know that he is with me. He loves what we had done. He will do great thing through us. When I saw Philips raise his hand and pray for me, I feel touch and I can sure that what I get the vision from God is achieving. Youth started to pray for youth and we start the prayer group and will get stronger by prayer. God... you really talk to me... That's the strong feeling I get.

I never get tired in praying, just slightly thristy after shout out loud in tongue. My spiritually need was fulfiled with God's spirit. That's a good recharge for all of us. I sure that God want us to start the prayer group. I talk to few of them (Stephanie,Jun Jun, Philip, Wendy and Angeline) about the prayer group detail and ask them to try to pray for specific person start on tomorrow.

God, Thanks for giving me such a good prayer team as I request. As I know we need to be continue it until Christ came again...Amen. Praise Lord.