A PRAYER FOR ALL GOD'S BELIEVERS!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

PAUL THE PREACHER TO THE GENTILES, I AM A GENTILE:

I - PAUL BECAME A SERVANT OF THIS GOSPEL BY THE GIFT OF GOD'S GRACE GIVEN ME THROUGH THE WORKINGS OF GOD POWER. ALTHROUGH I AM LESS THAN THE LEAST OF ALL GOD'S PEOPLE, THIS GRACE WAS GIVEN ME: TO PREACH TO THE GENTILES THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST, AND TO MAKE PLAIN TO EVERYONE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS MYSTERY, WHICH FOR AGES PAST WAS KEPT HIDDEN IN GOD, WHO CREATED ALL THINGS. GOD INTENT WAS THAT NOW, THROUGH THE CHURCH, THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD SHOULD BE MADE KNOWN TO THE RULERS AND AUTHORITIES IN THE
HEAVENLY REALMS, ACCORDING TO GOD ETERNAL PURPOSE WHICH GOD ACCOMPLISHED IN CHRIST JESUS
OUR LORD. IN CHRIST AND THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST
WE MAY APPROACH GOD WITH FREEDOM AND CONFIDENCE. I ASK YOU, THEREFORE, NOT TO BE DISCOURAGED BECAUSE OF MY SUFFERINGS FOR YOU, WHICH ARE YOUR GLORY.

A PRAYER FOR ALL GOD'S BELIEVERS:

FOR THIS REASON I KNEEL BEFORE THE FATHER, FROM WHOM GOD'S WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH DERIVES ITS NAME. I PRAY THAT OUT OF GOD'S GLORIOUS RICHES GOD MAY STRENGTHEN YOU WITH POWER THROUGH GOD SPIRIT IN YOUR INNER BEING, SO THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS THROUGH FAITH. AND I PRAY THAT YOU, BEING ROOTED AND ESTABLISHED IN LOVE, MAY HAVE POWER, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE SAINTS, TO GRASP HOW WIDE AND LONG AND HIGH AND DEEP IS THE LOVE OF CHRIST, AND TO KNOW THIS LOVE THAT SURPASSES KNOWLEDGE - THAT YOU MAY BE FILLED TO THE MEASURE OF ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD.

NOW TO GOD WHO IS ABLE TO DO IMMEASURABLY MORE THAN ALL WE ASK OR IMAGINE, ACCORDING TO GOD POWER THAT IS AT WORK WITHIN US, TO GOD BE GLORY IN THE CHURCH AND IN CHRIST JESUS THROUGHOUT ALL
GENERATIONS, FOR EVER AND EVER! AMEN.(Eph.3:7-21)

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY THANK'S BE TO GOD. AMEN!

I AM A GENTILE!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

PAUL THE PREACHER TO THE GENTILES, I AM A GENTILE:
FOR THIS REASON I, PAUL, THE PRISONER OF CHRIST JESUS FOR THE SAKE OF YOU GENTILES - SURELY YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOD'S GRACE THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME FOR YOU, THAT IS, THE MYSTERY MADE KNOWN TO ME BY REVELATION, AS I HAVE ALREADY WRITTEN BREFLY.(Eph.3:1-3)

WISDOM FROM THE SPIRIT OF GOD

WE DO, HOWEVER, SPEAK A MESSAGE OF WISDOM AMONG THE MATURE, BUT NOT THE WISDOM OF THIS AGE OR OF THE RULERS OF THIS AGE, WHO ARE COMING TO NOTHING. NO, WE SPEAK OF GOD'S SECRET WISDOM, A WISDOM THAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN AND THAT GOD DESTINED FOR OUR GLORY BEFORE TIME BEGAN. NONE OF THE RULERS OF THIS AGE UNDERSTOOD IT, FOR IF THEY HAD, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY. HOWEVER, AS IT IS WRITTEN: "NO EYE HAS SEEN, NO EAR HAS HEARD, NO MIND HAS CONCEIVED WHAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GOD" - BUT GOD HAS REVEALED IT TO US BY HIS SPIRIT.
THE SPIRIT SEARCHES ALL THINGS, EVEN THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD. FOR WHO AMONG MEN KNOWS THE THOUGHTS OF A MAN EXCEPT THE MAN'S SPIRIT WITHIN HIM? IN THE SAME WAY NO ONE KNOWS THE THOUGHTS OF GOD EXCEPT THE SPIRIT OF GOD. WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD BUT THE SPIRIT WHO IS FROM GOD, THAT WE MAY UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD HAS FREELY GIVEN US. THIS IS WHAT WE SPEAK, NOT IN WORDS TAUGHT US BY HUMAN WISDOM BUT IN WORDS
TAUGHT BY THE SPIRIT, EXPRESSING SPIRITUAL TRUTHS IN SPIRITUAL WORDS. THE MAN WITHOUT THE SPIRIT DOES NOT ACCEPT THE THINGS THAT COME FROM THE SPIRIT OF GOD, FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS TO HIM, AND HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. THE SPIRITUAL MAN MAKES JUDGMENTS ABOUT ALL THINGS, BUT HE HIMSELF IS NOT SUBJECT TO ANY MAN'S JUDGMENT: "FOR WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF GOD THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT GOD?" BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.(1Cor.2:6-16)

IN READING THIS, THEN, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND MY - (PAUL) INSIGHT INTO THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST, WHICH WAS NOT MADE KNOWN TO MEN IN OTHER GENERATIONS AS IT HAS NOW BEEN REVEALED BY THE SPIRIT TO GOD'S HOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS. THIS MYSTERY IS THAT THROUGH THE GOSPEL THE GENTILES ARE HEIRS TOGETHER WITH ISRAEL, MEMBERS TOGETHER OF ONE BODY, AND SHARERS TOGETHER IN THE PROMISE IN CHRIST JESUS.(Eph.3:4-6) AMEN!

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY THANK'S BE TO GOD. AMEN AGAIN!

WE ARE ALL ONE IN GOD THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST JESUS!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

WE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST, THEREFORE, REMEMBER THAT FORMLY YOU WHO ARE GENTILES BY BIRTH AND CALLED  "UNCIRCUMCISED" BY THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES  "THE CIRCUMCISION" (THAT DONE IN THE BODY BY THE HANDS OF MEN) - REMEMBER THAT AT THAT TIME YOU WERE SEPARATE FROM CHRIST, EXCLUDED FROM CITIZENSHIP IN ISRAEL AND FOREIGNERS TO THE COVENANTS OF THE PROMISE, WITHOUT HOPE AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD. BUT NOW IN CHRIST JESUS YOU WHO ONCE WERE FAR AWAY HAVE BEEN BROUGHT NEAR THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. FOR CHRIST HIMSELF IS OUR PEACE, WHO HAS MADE THE TWO ONE AND HAS DESTROYED THE BARRIER, THE DIVIDING WALL OF HOSTILITY, BY ABOLISHING IN CHRIST FLESH THE LAW WITH ITS COMMANDMENTS AND REGULATIONS. CHRIST PURPOSE WAS TO CREATE IN HIMSELF ONE NEW MAN OUT OF THE TWO, THUS MAKING PEACE, AND IN THIS ONE BODY TO RECONCILE BOTH OF THEM TO GOD THROUGH THE CROSS, BY WHICH CHRIST PUT TO DEATH THEIR HOSTILITY. CHRIST CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR. FOR THROUGH CHRIST WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS TO THE FATHER BY ONE SPIRIT.

CONSEQUENTLY, YOU ARE NO LONGER FOREIGNERS AND ALIENS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH GOD'S PEOPLE AND MEMBERS OF GOD'S HOUSEHOLD, BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, WITH CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF AS THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. IN CHRIST THE WHOLE BUILDING IS JOINED TOGETHER AND RISES TO BECOME A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD. AND IN CHRIST YOU TOO ARE BEING BUILT TOGETHER TO BECOME A DWELLING IN WHICH GOD LIVES BY HIS SPIRIT.(Eph.2:11-22)

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY THANK'S BE TO GOD. AMEN!

GOD MAKES ME ALIVE IN CHRIST!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

GOD MAKES ME ALIVE WITH CHRIST!

"AS FOR YOU, YOU WERE DEAD IN YOUR TRANSGRESSION AND SINS, IN WHICH YOU USED TO LIVE WHEN YOU FOLLOWED THE WAYS OF THIS WORLD AND OF THE RULER. OF THE KINGDOM OF THE AIR, THE SPIRIT WHO IS NOW AT WORK IN THOSE WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT. ALL OF US ALSO LIVED AMONG THEM AT ONE TIME, GRATIFYING THE CRAVINGS OF OUR SINFUL NATURE AND FOLLOWING ITS DESIRES AND THOUGHTS. LIKE THE REST, WE WERE BY NATURE OBJECTS OF WRATH. BUT BECAUSE OF GOD'S GREAT LOVE FOR US, GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, MADE US ALIVE WITH CHRIST EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN TRANSGRESSION - IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED. AND GOD RAISED US UP WITH CHRIST AND SEATED
US WITH GOD IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS IN CHRIST JESUS, IN ORDER THAT IN THE COMING AGES GOD MIGHT SHOW THE INCOMPARABLE RICHES OF GOD'S GRACE, EXPRESSED IN GOD'S KINDNESS TO US IN CHRIST JESUS FOR IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED, THROUGH FAITH - AND THIS NOT FROM YOURSELVES, IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD - NOT BY WORKS, SO THAT NO ONE CAN BOAST.
FOR WE ARE GOD'S WORKMANSHIP; CREATED IN CHRIST
JESUS TO DO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD PREPARED IN ADVANCE FOR US TO DO".(Eph.2:1-10)

"AND WE KNOW THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE GOD, WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED ACCORDING TO GOD'S PURPOSE. FOR THOSE GOD FORENEW GOD ALSO PREDESTINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE LIKENESS OF GOD'S SON, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BROTHERS. AND
THOSE GOD PREDESTINED, GOD ALSO CALLED; THOSE GOD CALLED, GOD ALSO JUSTIFIED; THOSE GOD JUSTIFIED, GOD ALSO GLORIFIED. WHAT, THEN, SHALL WE
SAY IN RESPONSE TO THIS? IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? GOD DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON, BUT GAVE CHRIST UP FOR US ALL - HOW WILL GOD NOT
ALSO, ALONG WITH CHRIST, GRACIOUSLY GIVE US ALL THINGS? WHO WILL BRING ANY CHARGE AGAINST THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN? IT IS GOD WHO JUSTIFIES. WHO IS HE THAT CONDEMS? CHRIST JESUS, WHO DIED - MORE THAN THAT, WHO WAS RAISED TO LIFE - IS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD AND IS ALSO INTERCEDING FOR US".(Rom.8:28-34)

GOD ALONG WITH CHRIST GRACIOUSLY GIVES ME ALL THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE AND GODLINESS!

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY THANKS BE TO GOD. AMEN!

GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST, I AM INCLUDED!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

AND YOU ALSO WERE INCLUDED IN CHRIST WHEN YOU HEARD THE WORD OF TRUTH, THE GOSPEL OF YOUR SALVATION. HAVING BELIEVED, YOU WERE MARKED IN CHRIST WITH A SEAL, THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT, WHO IS
A DEPOSIT GUARANTEEING OUR INHERITANCE UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THOSE WHO ARE GOD'S PASSESSION -TO THE PRAISE OF GOD'S GLORY.

FOR THIS REASON, EVER SINCE I HEARD ABOUT YOUR FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS AND YOUR LOVE FOR ALL THE SAINTS, I HAVE NOT STOPPED GIVING THANKS FOR YOU, REMEMBERING YOU IN MY PRAYERS. I KEEP ASKING THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE GLORIOUS FATHER, MAY GIVE YOU THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION, SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW GOD BETTER. I PRAY ALSO THAT THE EYES OF YOUR HEART MAY BE ENLIGHTENED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY KNOW THE HOPE TO WHICH GOD HAS CALLED YOU,
JESUS CHRIST. THE RICHES OF GOD'S GLORIOUS INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS, AND GOD'S INCOMPARABLY GREAT POWER FOR US WHO BELIEVE GOD WORD IS TRUE.
THAT POWER IS LIKE THE WORKING OF GOD'S MIGHTY STRENGTH, WHICH GOD EXERTED IN CHRIST WHEN GOD RAISED CHRIST FROM THE DEAD AND SEATED CHRIST AT GOD RIGHT HAND IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS, FAR ABOVE ALL RULE AND AUTHORITY, POWER AND DOMINION, AND EVERY TITLE THAT CAN BE GIVEN, NOT ONLY IN THE PRESENT AGE BUT ALSO IN THE AGE TO COME. AND GOD PLACED ALL THINGS UNDER CHRIST FEET AND APPOINTED CHRIST TO BE HEAD OVER EVERTHING FOR THE CHURCH, WHICH IS CHRIST'S BODY, THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST WHO FILLS EVERTHING IN EVERWAY.(Eph.1:13-23)

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY THANKS BE TO GOD! AMEN.

BE FREE DO NOT INDULGE THE SINFUL NATURE, BUT LIVE BY THE SPIRIT!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

YOU, MY BROTHERS, WERE CALLED TO BE FREE. BUT DO NOT USE YOUR FREEDOM TO INDULGE THE SINFUL NATURE; RATHER, SERVE ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE. THE ENTIRE LAW IS SUMMED UP IN A SINGLE COMMAND: "LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." IF YOU KEEP ON BITING AND DEVOURING EACH OTHER, WATCH OUT OR YOU WILL BE DESTROYED BY EACH OTHER. SO I SAY, LIVE BY THE SPIRIT, AND YOU WILL NOT GRATIFY THE DESIRES OF THE SINFUL NATURE. FOR THE SINFUL NATURE DESIRES WHAT IS CONTRARY TO THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT WHAT IS CONTRARY TO THE SINFUL NATURE. THEY ARE IN CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER, SO THAT YOU
DO NOT DO WHAT YOU WANT. BUT IF YOU ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT, YOU ARE NOT UNDER LAW.

THE ACTS OF THE SINFUL NATURE ARE OBVIOUS: SEXUAL IMMORALITY, IMPURITY, AND DEBAUCHERY; IDOLATRY AND WITCHCRAFT; HATRED, DISCORD, JEALOUSY, FITS OF RAGE, SELFISH AMBITION, DISSENSIONS, FACTIONS AND ENVY; DRUNKENNESS, ORGIES, AND THE LIKE. I WARN YOU, AS I DID BEFORE, THAT THOSE WHO LIVE LIKE THIS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS AND INNER - SELF CONTROL. AGAINST SUCH THINGS THERE IS NO LAW. THOSE WHO BELONG TO CHRIST JESUS HAVE CRUCIFIED THE SINFUL NATURE WITH ITS PASSIONS AND DESIRES. SINCE WE LIVE BY THE SPIRIT, LET US NOT BECOME CONCEITED, PROVOKING AND ENVYING EACH OTHER. BROTHERS, IF SOMEONE IS CAUGHT IN A SIN, YOU WHO ARE SPIRITUAL SHOULD RESTORE HIM GENTLY. BUT WATCH YOURSELF, OR YOU ALSO MAY BE TEMPTED. CARRY EACH OTHER'S BURDENS, AND IN THIS WAY YOU WILL FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST. IF ANYONE THINKS HE IS SOMETHING WHEN HE IS NOTHING, HE DECEIVES HIMSELF. EACH ONE SHOULD TEST HIS OWN ACTIONS. THEN HE CAN TAKE PRIDE IN HIMSELF, WITHOUT COMPARING HIMSELF TO SOMEBODY ELSE, FOR EACH ONE SHOULD CARRY HIS OWN LOAD.
ANYONE WHO RECEIVES INSTRUCTION IN THE WORD MUST SHARE ALL GOOD THINGS WITH HIS INSTRUCTOR. DO NOT BE DECEIVED: GOD CANNOT BE MOCKED. A MAN REAPS WHAT HE SOWS. THE ONE WHO SOWS TO PLEASE HIS SINFUL NATURE, FROM THAT NATURE WILL REAP DESTRUCTION; THE ONE WHO SOWS TO PLEASE THE  SPIRIT, FROM THE SPIRIT WILL REAP ETERNAL LIFE. LET US NOT BECOME WEARY IN DOING GOOD, FOR AT THE PROPER TIME WE WILL REAP A HARVEST IF WE DO NOT GIVE UP. THEREFORE, AS WE HAVE OPPORTUNITY, LET US DO GOOD TO ALL PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WHO BELONG TO THE FAMILY OF BELIEVERS.(Gal.5:13-6:10)

BROTHERS, THE HARVEST I REAPED ARE THESE WORDS I SPEAK. ETERNAL LIFE I SEEK FROM THE SPIRIT. GOD, LET ME NOT BECOME WEARY IN DOING YOUR GOOD! AMEN.

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY "THANKS BE TO GOD" AMEN!

I AM A MAN OF GOD!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

I AM A MAN OF GOD!

"THE PROMISES WERE SPOKEN TO ABRAHAM AND TO HIS SEED. THE SCRIPTURE DOES NOT SAY "AND TO SEEDS," MEANING MANY PEOPLE, BUT "AND TO YOUR SEED," MEANING ONE PERSON, WHO IS CHRIST."(Gal.3:16)

"THE SPIRIT HIMSELF TESTIFIES WITH OUR SPIRT THAT WE
ARE GOD'S CHILDREN. NOW IF WE ARE CHILDREN, THEN WE ARE HEIRS - HEIRS OF GOD AND CO-HEIRS WITH CHRIST, IF INDEED WE SHARE IN CHRIST SUFFERINGS IN
ORDER THAT WE MAY ALSO SHARE IN CHRIST GLORY.(Rom.8:16-17)

YOU ARE ALL SONS OF GOD THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS, FOR ALL OF YOU WHO WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE CLOTHED YOURSELVES WITH CHRIST. THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, SLAVE NOR FREE, MALE NOR FEMALE, FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS. IF YOU BELONG TO CHRIST, THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE.
WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT AS LONG AS THE HEIR IS A CHILD, HE IS NO DIFFERENT FROM A SLAVE, ALTHOUGH HE OWNS THE WHOLE ESTATE. HE IS SUBJECT TO GUARDIANS AND TRUSTEES UNTIL THE TIME SET BY HIS FATHER. SO ALSO, WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, WE WERE IN SLAVERY UNDER THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE WORLD. BUT WHEN THE TIME HAD FULLY COME, GOD SENT HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN UNDER LAW, TO REDEEM THOSE UNDER LAW, THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE FULL RIGHTS OF SONS. BECAUSE YOU ARE SONS, GOD SENT THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON INTO OUR HEARTS, THE SPIRIT WHO CALLS OUT "ABBA, FATHER." SO YOU ARE NO LONGER A SLAVE, BUT A SON; AND SINCE YOU ARE A SON, GOD HAS MADE YOU ALSO AN HEIR.(Gal.3:26-4:7)

"WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I TALKED LIKE A CHILD, I THOUGHT LIKE A CHILD, I REASONED LIKE A CHILD. WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT CHILDISH WAYS BEHIND ME."(1Cor.13:11-12)

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY "THANKS BE TO GOD." AMEN

RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD COMES THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST TO ALL WHO BELIEVE. I BELIEVE!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH:

"BUT NOW A RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD, APART FROM LAW, HAS BEEN MADE KNOWN, TO WHICH THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS TESTIFY. THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD COMES THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST TO ALL WHO BELIEVE".(Rom.3:21-22)
"ABRAHAM DID NOT WAVER THROUGH UNBELIEF REGARDING THE PROMISE OF GOD, BUT WAS STRENGTHENED IN HIS FAITH AND GAVE GLORY TO GOD, BEING FULLY PERSUADED THAT GOD HAD POWER TO DO WHAT GOD HAD PROMISED. THIS IS WHY "IT WAS CREDITED TO ABRAHAM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," THE WORDS "IT WAS CREDITED TO ABRAHAM" WERE WRITTEN NOT FOR ABRAHAM ALONE, BUT ALSO FOR US, TO WHOM GOD WILL CREDIT RIGHTEOUSNESS - FOR US WHO BELIEVE IN GOD WHO RAISED JESUS OUR LORD FROM THE DEAD.(Rom.4:20-24)

"YOU, HOWEVER, ARE CONTROLLED NOT BY THE SINFUL NATURE BUT BY THE SPIRIT, IF THE SPIRIT OF GOD LIVES IN YOU. AND IF ANYONE DOES NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE DOES NOT BELONG TO CHRIST. BUT IF CHRIST IS IN YOU, YOUR BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN, YET YOUR SPIRIT IS ALIVE BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.(Rom.8:9-10)

 "BROTHERS, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR THE ISRAELITES IS THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED. FOR I CAN TESTIFY ABOUT THEM THAT THEY ARE ZEALOUS FOR GOD, BUT THEIR ZEAL IS NOT BASED ON KNOWLEDGE.
SINCE THEY DID NOT KNOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT COMES FROM GOD AND SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN, THEY DID NOT SUBMIT TO GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS.
CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW SO THAT THERE MAY BE
RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES.(Rom.10:1-4)

"IT IS BEACUSE OF GOD THAT YOU ARE IN CHRIST JESUS,
WHO HAS BECOME FOR US WISDOM FROM GOD - THAT IS,
OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, HOLINESS AND REDEMPTION.
THEREFORE, AS IT IS WRITTEN: "LET HIM WHO BOASTS BOAST IN THE LORD."(1Cor.1:30-31)

"THAT I MAY GAIN CHRIST AND BE FOUND IN CHRIST, NOT HAVING A RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MY OWN THAT COMES FROM THE LAW, BUT THAT WHICH IS THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST - THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT COMES FROM GOD AND IS BY FAITH."(Phil.3:8c-9)

"MY DEAR BROTHERS, TAKE NOTE OF THIS: EVERYONE
SHOULD BE QUICK TO LISTEN, SLOW TO SPEAK AND SLOW TO BECOME ANGRY, FOR MAN'S ANGER DOES NOT BRING ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUS LIFE THAT GOD DESIRES."(James1:19)

"FOR CHRIST DIED FOR SINS ONCE FOR ALL, THE RIGHTEOUS FOR THE UNRIGHTEOUS, TO BRING YOU TO GOD. CHRIST WAS PUT TO DEATH IN THE BODY BUT MADE ALIVE BY THE SPIRIT."(1Peter3:18)

THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION:
IF WE ARE OUT OF OUR MIND, IT IS FOR THE SAKE OF GOD; IF WE ARE IN OUR RIGHT MIND IT IS FOR YOU. FOR CHRIST'S LOVE COMPELS US, BECAUSE WE ARE CONVINCED THAT ONE DIED FOR ALL, AND THEREFORE ALL DIED. AND CHRIST DIED FOR ALL, THAT THOSE WHO LIVE SHOULD NO LONGER LIVE FOR THEMSELVES BUT FOR CHRIST WHO DIED FOR THEM AND WAS RAISED AGAIN.
SO FROM NOW ON WE REGARD NO ONE FROM A WORLDLY POINT OF VIEW. THOUGH WE ONCE REGARDED CHRIST IN THIS WAY, WE DO SO NO LONGER. THEREFORE, IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION; THE OLD HAS GONE, THE NEW HAS COME! ALL THIS IS FROM GOD, WHO RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF THROUGH CHRIST AND GAVE US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION: THAT GOD WAS RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF IN CHRIST, NOT COUNTING MEN'S SINS AGAINST THEM. AND GOD HAS COMMITTED TO US THE MESSAGE OF RECONCILIATION. WE ARE THEREFORE CHRIST'S AMBASSADORS, AS THOUGH GOD WERE MAKING HIS APPEAL THROUGH US. WE IMPLORE YOU ON CHRIST'S BEHALF: BE RECONCILED TO GOD. GOD MADE CHRIST WHO HAD NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, SO THAT IN CHRIST WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
AS GOD'S FELLOW WORKERS WE URGE YOU NOT TO RECEIVE GOD'S GRACE IN VAIN. FOR GOD 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.(2Cor.5:13-6:2)

"THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT IS RIGHT AND JUST AND FAIR-EVERY GOOD PATH."(Prov.2:9)

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY "THANKS BE TO GOD." AMEN!

GOD MAKES HIS COVENANT KNOWN TO ME,GOD INSTRUCT ME IN THE WAY CHOSEN FOR ME.

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST,GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

"ALL THE WAYS OF GOD ARE LOVING AND FAITHFUL FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THE DEMANDS OF GOD'S COVENANT".

"GOD CONFIDES IN THOSE WHO FEAR HIM; GOD MAKES HIS COVENANT KNOWN TO THEM".

"GOD WILL INSTRUCT HIM IN THE WAY CHOSEN FOR HIM"

THE GLORY OF THE NEW COVENANT:

NOW IF THE MINISTRY THAT BROUGHT DEATH, WHICH WAS ENGRAVED IN LETTERS ON STONE, CAME WITH GLORY, SO
THAT THE ISRAELITES COULD NOT LOOK STEADILY AT THE FACE OF MOSES BECAUSE OF ITS GLORY, FADING THOUGH
IT WAS, WILL NOT THE MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT BE EVEN MORE GLORIOUS? IF THE MINISTRY THAT CONDEMNS MEN
IS GLORIOUS, HOW MUCH MORE GLORIOUS IS THE MINISTRY THAT BRINGS RIGHTEOUSNESS! FOR WHAT WAS GLORIOUS HAS NO GLORY NOW IN COMPARISON WITH THE SURPASSING GLORY. AND IF WHAT WAS FADING AWAY CAME WITH GLORY, HOW MUCH MORE GREATER IS THE GLORY OF THAT WHICH LAST!
THEREFORE, SINCE WE HAVE SUCH A HOPE, WE ARE VERY BOLD. WE ARE NOT LIKE MOSES, WHO PUT A VEIL OVER HIS FACE TO KEEP THE ISRAELITES FROM GAZING AT IT WHILE THE RADIANCE WAS FADING AWAY. BUT THERE MINDS WERE MADE DULL, FOR TO THIS DAY THE SAME VEIL REMAINS WHEN THE OLD COVENANT IS READ. IT HAS NOT BEEN REMOVED, BECAUSE ONLY IN CHRIST IS IT TAKEN AWAY. EVEN TO THIS DAY WHEN MOSES IS READ, A VEIL COVERS THEIR HEARTS. BUT WHENEVER ANYONE TURNS TO THE LORD, THE VEIL IS TAKEN AWAY. NOW JESUS IS THE SPIRIT, AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF JESUS IS, THERE IS FREEDOM. AND WE, WHO WITH UNVEILED FACES ALL REFLECT JESUS GLORY, ARE BEING TRANSFORMED INTO
JESUS LIKENESS WITH EVER-INCREASING GLORY, WHICH COMES FROM JESUS WHO IS THE SPIRIT.(2Cor.3:7-18)

THE GOD OF THIS AGE HAS BLINDED THE MINDS OF UNBELIEVERS, SO THAT THEY CANNOT SEE THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL OF THE GLORY OF CHRIST, WHO IS THE IMAGE OF GOD.(2Cor.4:4)

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY THANK'S BE TO GOD. AMEN!

WE ARE MINISTERS OF NEW COVENANT: FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST!

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REAVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST.

BUT AS SURELY AS GOD IS FAITHFUL, OUR MESSAGE TO YOU IS NOT "YES" AND "NO." FOR THE SON OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST, WHO WAS PREACHED AMONG YOU BY PAUL AND SILAS AND TIMOTHY, WAS NOT "YES" AND "NO", BUT IN CHRIST IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN "YES." FOR NO MATTER HOW MANY PROMISES GOD HAS MADE, THEY ARE "YES" IN CHRIST. AND SO THROUGH CHRIST THE "AMEN" IS SPOKEN BY US TO THE GLORY OF GOD. NOW IT IS GOD WHO MAKES BOTH US AND YOU STAND FIRM IN CHRIST. GOD ANOINTED US, SET HIS SEAL OF OWNERSHIP ON US, AND PUT HIS SPIRIT IN OUR HEARTS AS A DEPOSIT, GUARANTEEING WHAT IS TO COME.(2Cor.2:18-22)

WE ARE MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT:

BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WHO ALWAYS LEADS US IN TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION IN CHRIST AND THROUGH US SPREADS EVERYWHERE THE FRAGRANCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST. FOR WE ARE TO GOD THE AROMA OF CHRIST AMONG THOSE WHO ARE BEING SAVED AND THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. TO THE ONE WE ARE THE SMELL OF DEATH; TO THE OTHER, THE FRAGRANCE OF LIFE, AND WHO IS EQUAL TO SUCH A TASK? UNLIKE SO MANY, WE DO NOT PEDDLE THE WORD OF GOD FOR PROFIT. ON THE CONTRARY, IN CHRIST WE SPEAK BEFORE GOD WITH SINCERITY, LIKE MEN SENT FROM GOD.
ARE WE BEGINNING TO COMMEND OURSELVES AGAIN? OR DO WE NEED, LIKE SOME PEOPLE, LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION TO YOU OR FROM YOU? YOU YOURSELVES ARE OUR LETTER, WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS, KNOWN AND READ BY EVERYBODY. YOU SHOW THAT YOU ARE A LETTER FROM CHRIST, THE RESULT OF OUR MINISTRY, WRITTEN NOT WITH INK, BUT WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD, NOT ON TABLETS OF STONE, BUT ON TABLETS OF HUMAN HEARTS.
SUCH CONFIDENCE AS THIS IS OURS THROUGH CHRIST BEFORE GOD. NOT THAT WE ARE COMPETENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING FOR OURSELVES, BUT OUR COMPENTENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENENT-NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE.(2Cor.2:14-3:6)

CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY THANKS BE TO GOD. AMEN!