25042012

2 Corinthians 6

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

6 We are workers together with God. So we beg you: Don’t let the grace that you received from God be for nothing. 2 God says,

“I heard you at the right time,

and I gave you help on the day of salvation.”

I tell you that the “right time” is now. The “day of salvation” is now.

3 We don’t want people to find anything wrong with our work. So we do nothing that will be a problem to others. 4 But in every way we show that we are servants of God. We never give up, even though we face troubles, difficulties, and problems of every kind. 5 We are beaten and thrown into prison. People get upset at us and fight against us. We work hard, and sometimes we get no sleep or food. 6 We show that we are God’s servants by our pure lives, by our understanding, by our patience, and by our kindness. We show it by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love, 7 by speaking the truth, and by depending on God’s power. This right way of living has prepared us to defend ourselves against every kind of attack.

8 Some people honor us, but others shame us. Some people say good things about us, but others say bad things. Some people say we are liars, but we speak the truth. 9 To some people we are not known, but we are well known. We seem to be dying, but look! We continue to live. We are punished, but we are not killed. 10 We have much sadness, but we are always rejoicing. We are poor, but we are making many people rich in faith. We have nothing, but really we have everything.

11 We have spoken freely to you people in Corinth. We have opened our hearts to you. 12 Our feelings of love for you have not stopped. It is you who have stopped your feelings of love for us. 13 I speak to you as if you were my children. Do the same as we have done—open your hearts also.

We Are God’s Temple

14 You are not the same as those who don’t believe. So don’t join yourselves to them. Good and evil don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot share the same room. 15 How can there be any unity between Christ and the devil [a]? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 God’s temple [b] cannot have anything to do with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said,

“I will live with them

and walk with them;

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.”

17 “So come away from those people

and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord.

Don’t touch anything that is not clean,

and I will accept you.”

18 “I will be your father,

and you will be my sons and daughters,

says the Lord All-Powerful.”

Paul said that we must have a limit with our relationship with those unbeliever but yet not to stop the relationship with them. By the limit we will not lose our passion, love in Christ and get involve with the thing and action that not please God. We have to get relationship to others believer so that we could share to those unbeliever how great is our God and share God's love. God said, Away from those sin and get a distance from that and it mean to have a close relationship with God and passion for him.

Actually yesterday my body Tiredness level reached 5 stars... I nearly fall asleep while prayer meeting, but I tell myself I need to pray. I need to ask... Ask God's spirit with us and get his strength.

God really answer my prayer, while pastor pray for some others about Spiritual keys... After that he said the he wanna pray for those who ask for the healing spiritual gift from God. I say no... I think I'm not the one... No.... I ask recently, but I din ask in prayer meeting what... but, my heart start having palpitation, until I decide to stand infront and get the pray by the pastor. When pastor pray for me...I felt like electric shock... Is like shivering...keep shaking...I can't relax... God spirit works on me as I know...

Lord, Thank you. Thanks you still chose me as a servant to serve you with what you gave. I know sometimes I'm not following what you say and make you sad, but yet Holy spirit in me and get me back in your embrace. Lord, I will serve you will all I have.

Good news is that, after prayer meeting, chester told me that he wanna start on a prayer chain in all committee. Although it look unbeliever but tomorrow onwards that's exactly 30days before camp. I'm willing to do the schedule for him as that's also what I hope to do so before I start the youth prayer schedule for youth. ^^

Just like what Bro Alan share in prayer meeting, he saw many youth stand to serve God and evangelism happen in youth...Amen. Prasie Lord.