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Let Me Proclaim the Power of God!

Posted in 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Psalms-BibleTrekToday - August 3, 2018 - 0 Comment

Scripture reading for August 3rd:  Psalm 69-71, 2nd Corinthians 6

Key Scriptures: Psalm 71:17-19 “O God, from my youth You have taught me, and I still proclaim Your wondrous deeds.  So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim Your might to another generation, Your power to all those to come.  Your righteousness, O God, reaches the highest heavens.  You who have done great things, O God, who is like You?” 

The psalmist was asking His God to give him His presence and strength even in his advanced years.  He had known God from his youth and been taught of God, observing His wonderful acts.  But now in later years of his life, he asked for the power of God’s presence to proclaim God’s amazing might to the next generation.  This is my prayer this year for my own life and for those who love God.

2nd Corinthians 6:1-2 “Working together with Him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.  For He says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.”  Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”

Prayer:  Lord, thank You for Your presence and grace with me by the Holy Spirit.  Continue to empower me to proclaim Jesus Christ to those who do not know and the next generation.  Amen.

 

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Rejoice in the time of God’s favor!

Posted in Pauline epistles--BibleTrekToday - November 29, 2017 - 0 Comment

Scripture reading for November 29th:  2nd Corinthians 5-8

Key Scriptures:  2nd Corinthians 5:21-6:2  “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.  As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.  For He says, “In the time of My favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.”  I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” 

Paul urged the Corinthians to receive the grace of God and hold fast to it.  That grace is summed up in the fact that God made Jesus Christ, His Son, to be sin for us that we might receive the gift of righteousness.  This offer of favor is for now, today!  We do not have a guarantee of tomorrow in this life!  We can receive God’s grace in vain by hearing the gospel but failing to respond!  May it never be!

The blessing of God’s favor:  “This is what the Lord says:  “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!'”  (Isaiah 49:8-9)

 

 

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