MY COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD, GOD HAS MADE ME COMPETENT AS A MINISTER OF THE NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE!

 TODAY WE ARE SO DIVIDED BECAUSE MY ENEMY THE DEVIL HAS  BLINDED US FROM THE TRUTH THAT THE DEVIL IS THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL. SO WHEN EVIL HAPPENS IN THE WORLD REMEMBER NOT TO BLAME EACH OTHER FOR WHAT DEVIL IS DOING. JESUS SAID: "NOW" IS THE TIME FOR JUDGEMENT ON THIS WORLD; "NOW" THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD WILL BE DRIVEN OUT."  (John 12:31)

THE WORD OF GOD HAS POWER OVER THE DEVIL. WHEN JESUS WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL; JESUS ANSWERED "IT IS WRITTEN". THE WRITTEN WORD HAS THE POWER TO DEFEAT THE DEVIL AND ALL HIS EVIL FORCES. I INVOKE THE WORD OF GOD IN THE WORLD TODAY BY SPEAKING THE WORD OUT OF MY MOUTH INTO MY HEART, BACK IN MY MOUTH INTO MY HEART. THIS IS A DIVINE CYCLE THAT POWERS GOD'S WORD. 

CAN I GET AN AMEN FROM ALL WHO CALL ON GOD. AMEN!

I AM A MINISTER OF THE 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 COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD. GOD HAS MADE US COMPETENT AS MINISTERS OF A NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; FOR THE LETTER KILLS, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE." (1Corinthians 2:14-3:6)

MY COMPETENCE COMES FROM GOD, GOD HAS MADE ME COMPETENT AS A MINISTER OF THE NEW COVENANT - NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE.

"THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE; THE FLESH COUNTS FOR NOTHING. THE WORDS I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE LIFE." (John 6:63)

"I BEG YOU THAT WHEN I COME I MAY NOT HAVE TO BE AS BOLD AS I EXPECT TO BE TOWARD SOME PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT WE LIVE BY THE SRANDARDS OF THIS WORLD. FOR THOUGH WE LIVE IN THE WORLD, WE DO NOT WAGE WAR AS THE WORLD DOES. THE WEPONS WE FIGHT WITH ARE NOT WEAPONS OF THE WORLD. ON THE CONTRARY, THEY HAVE DIVINE POWER TO DEMOLISH STRONGHOLDS. WE DEMOLISH ARGUMENTS AND EVERY PRETENSION THAT SETS ITSELF UP AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, AND WE TAKE CAPTIVE EVERY THOUGHT TO MAKE IT OBEDIENT CHRIST. AND WE WILL BE READY TO PUNISH EVERY ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE, ONCE YOUR OBEDIENCE IS COMPLETE." (2 Corinthians 10:2-6)

BECAUSE I OBEY THE COVENANT GOD HAS GIVEN ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, THIS IS MY CONFESSION: "I AM BELIEVING CONTINUALLY IN JESUS' WORDS, AND I BIND THE POWER OF THE DEVIL AND LOOSE THE POWER OF GOD IN THE EARTH. GOD IS WORKING IN ME AND THROUGH ME EVERY DAY!

"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 JUDGEMENTS ABOUT ALL THINGS, BUT HE HIMSELF IS NOT SUBJECT TO ANY MAN'S JUDGEMENT: "FOR WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT HIM?" BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST." (1 Corinthians 2:13-16)

'FOR IN GOD WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING.' AS SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, 'WE ARE GOD'S OFFSPRING.' "THEREFORE SINCE WE ARE GOD'S OFFSPRING, WE SHOULD NOT THINK THAT THE DIVINE BEING IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE - AN IMAGE MADE BY MAN'S DESIGN AND SKILL. IN THE PAST GOD OVERLOOKED SICH IGNORANCE, BUT NOW GOD COMMANDS ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO REPENT.

FOR GOD HAS SET A DAY WHEN GOD WILL JUDGE THE WORLD WITH JUSTICE BY THE MAN GOD HAS APPOINTED. GOD HAS GIVEN PROOF OF THIS TO ALL MEN BY RAISING CHRIST FROM THE DEAD." (Acts 17:28-31)

THE REASON THE DEVIL IS SO BUSY IS HE KNOWS HIS TIME IS SHORT. MY MOM ALWAYS SAID THE DEVIL IS MOVING SO FAST HE IS ON ROLLOR SKATES!

I SWEAR THIS IS THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP ME GOD!

"YET A TIME IS COMING AND HAS "NOW" COME WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPERS WILL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH, FOR THEY ARE THE KIND OF WORSHIPERS THE FATHER SEEKS. GOD IS SPIRIT AND GOD'S WORSHIPERS MUST WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH." (John 4:23-24)

TODAY THE WORLD HAS FALLEN FOR A LIE, AND IT IS MY ENEMY THE DEVIL WHO HAS DECIEVED THEM, BECAUSE THE DEVIL IS THE FATHER OF ALL LIES. GOD'S WORD OF TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN THE DEVIL'S LIES.