24042012

2 Corinthians 5

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

5 We know that our body—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a home for us to live in. It will not be the kind of home people build here. It will be a home in heaven that will continue forever. 2 But now we are tired of this body. We want God to give us our heavenly home. 3 It will clothe us and we will not be naked. 4 While we live in this tent, we have burdens and so we complain. I don’t mean that we want to remove this tent, but we want to be clothed with our heavenly home. Then this body that dies will be covered with life. 5 This is what God himself made us for. And he has given us the Spirit as the first payment to guarantee the life to come.

6 So we always have confidence. We know that while we live in this body, we are away from the Lord. 7 We live by what we believe will happen, not by what we can see. 8 So I say that we have confidence. And we really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord. 9 Our only goal is to always please the Lord, whether we are living here in this body or there with him. 10 We must all stand before Christ to be judged. Everyone will get what they should. They will be paid for whatever they did—good or bad—when they lived in this earthly body.

God, what I should do is please You and whether we are living here in this body or there with him. I should serve you and love you will all my heart and soul. Amen

Helping People Become God’s Friends

11 We know what it means to fear the Lord, so we try to help people accept the truth. God knows what we really are, and I hope that in your hearts you know us too. 12 We are not trying to prove ourselves to you again. But we are telling you about ourselves. We are giving you reasons to be proud of us. Then you will have an answer for those who are proud about what can be seen. They don’t care about what is in a person’s heart. 13 If we are crazy, it is for God. If we have our right mind, it is for you. 14 The love of Christ controls us, because we know that one person died for everyone. So all have died. 15 He died for all so that those who live would not continue to live for themselves. He died for them and was raised from death so that they would live for him.

16 From this time on we don’t think of anyone as the world thinks of people. It is true that in the past we thought of Christ as the world thinks. But we don’t think that way now. 17 When anyone is in Christ, it is a whole new world. [a] The old things are gone; suddenly, everything is new! 18 All this is from God. Through Christ, God made peace between himself and us. And God gave us the work of bringing people into peace with him. 19 I mean that God was in Christ, making peace between the world and himself. In Christ, God did not hold people guilty for their sins. And he gave us this message of peace to tell people. 20 So we have been sent to speak for Christ. It is like God is calling to people through us. We speak for Christ when we beg you to be at peace with God. 21 Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin [b] so that in Christ we could be right with God.

Christ is sinless but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could be right with God. Amen. Salvation is free.........for all of us, when you believe it.

Night we go attend a service at Penang church. A pastor have spiritual gift of prophet, he share about how God choose him and anoint him. He start on asking the anointing since he is 19years. He get a sickness at his back. When he go a church at UK, he ask for the healing from pastor John, but the pastor didn't pray for him and a brother of that church did it, and he heal by the prayer of the brother. He go the church another time to seek the brother that prayed for him last time, but that brother is not around again. Another brother pray for him again. He get healed again. He realize that, each of the member of that church have a spiritual gift. That's powerful, then he trust that if that's the pastor, should be more powerful then the brothers in church. He start attend the anointing classes in that church. The pastor pray for those who have a the prophet gift from God. When the pastor pray for him, he start fill with the holy spirit and he speak in tongue. Days by days, he practice at home with speak in tongue and he tell us. " Although salvation is free, But ANOINTING is NOT. " You have to ask for it. He personally ask for the healing gift from God. He got a sickness, When he pray, God head him, but his faith is not strong. The sickness back again, then he ask God what would it happen again. He proclaim with the words of God everyday and sing the song everyday. God heal him again in 2 weeks time. Praise Lord. In God nothing is impossible.

Tonight the pastor ask those who is sick and pray for those sickness but din pray for all people. Honestly I got slightly disappointed but got a voice tell me that, why are you feel disappointed. You need my healing??? If you sick, you need a doctor, but if you are well done, why you need healing. I'm always with you, and you are in me. Don't you think that you need to get sick just you can came to me??? I tears again... I know he is with me all the time, so I free from sickness. God, thanks you love me ^^