For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. —II Corinthians 9:7             Jesus owns it all.  He created it all and it all belongs to Him.  Yet, He left the glories of heaven to come to this teeny, tiny planet in abject poverty.  Why did Jesus willingly become poor?  It was for our sake that we “through his poverty might become rich.”  He Who is eternal entered the temporal so that He could give all who call on His Name the riches of eternal life and an…

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. —II Corinthians 5:10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it.   But each one should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it…

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. —II Corinthians 3:5 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. —II Corinthians 3:17 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. —II Corinthians 4:5 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. —II Corinthians 4:7 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not…

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings,…

            Yes, let us praise the Lord.  He is to be praised from every realm and from every living creature!  Praise the Lord— Yes, today and forever, let us praise the Lord! Yes, Dear Father, may this be so by the power of Your Holy Spirit and in the authority of Your Son Jesus.   All for your glory! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0yL3N6CAAs&list=RDW0yL3N6CAAs&start_radio=1

Love… keeps no record of wrongs. —I Corinthians 13:5             Do you keep a log in your mind of everything wrong someone has done against you?  I find it interesting that Jesus tells us to “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you” and to “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).  So, if this is the case, love will not keep a record of wrongs and will even do good and pray for those who hate us.  Wow, if this is how we are to respond to those who hate us, what is our response to those who have just wrong us…

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.  Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good…  —I Corinthians 12:4-7  But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. —I Corinthians 12:18-20 Now you are the body of Christ,…

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly… —I Corinthians 9:24-26 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our…

Keeping God’s commands is what counts. —I Corinthians 7:19 Doing what God says is paramount!  Loving obedience indicates our attitude toward God and what He says— “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them…  Jesus replied, ‘Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching.’” —John 14:21, 23-24             Do I really love Him?  Am I…

Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? —I Corinthians 5:5 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people. —I Corinthians 5:11 Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified,…