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Blessings of Giving Cheerfully

May 1, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

Remember this—

a farmer who plants only a few seeds

will get a small crop.

But the one who plants generously

will get a generous crop.

You must each decide in your heart

how much to give.

and don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure.

“For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.”

2 Corinthians 9:6-7

Blessings of God’s Encouragement

April 30, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

We faced conflict from every direction,

with battles on the outside

and fear on the inside.

But God,

who encourages those who are discouraged,

encouraged us…

2 Corinthians 7:5

Blessings of the Living God

April 29, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

How can a believer be a partner

with an unbeliever?

…For we are the temple of the living God.

As God said:

“I will live in them

and walk among them.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people…

2 Corinthians 6:15,16

Blessings of Embracing the Right Time

April 28, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

God says,

“At just the right time, I heard you.

On the day of salvation, I helped you.”

Indeed,

the “right time” is now.

Today is the day of salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:2

Blessings Of Being Made Right With God Through Christ

April 27, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

…we are Christ’s ambassadors;

God is making his appeal through us.

We speak for Christ when we plead,

“Come back to God!”

For God made Christ,

who never sinned,

to be the offering for our sin,

so that we could be made right with God

through Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21

Blessings of Knowing Jesus Differently

April 26, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

…At one time we thought of Christ

merely from a human point of view.

How differently we know him now!

2 Corinthians 5:16

Blessings of Living by Believing

April 25, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

…we live by believing

and not by seeing.

…our goal is to please him.

For we must all stand before Christ to be judged…

2 Corinthians 5:7,9,10

Blessings of a Perfect Eternal Body

April 24, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

…we know that when this earthly tent we live in

is taken down

(that is, when we die and leave this earthly body),

we will have a house in heaven,

an eternal body made for us by God himself

and not by human hands.

2 Corinthians 5:1

Blessings of Fixing Our Gaze

April 23, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

…don’t look at the troubles we can see now;

rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen.

For the things we see now will soon be gone,

but the things we cannot see will last forever.

2 Corinthians 4:18

Blessings of Perceiving Truth

April 22, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance

rising up to God.

But this fragrance is perceived differently

by those who are being saved

and by those who are perishing.

To those who are perishing,

we are a dreadful smell of death and doom.

But to those who are being saved,

we are a life-giving perfume.

2 Corinthians 2:15-16

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