Category Archives: Blessings

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

Blessings of Relying on the One Who Raises the Dead

April 21, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

…about the trouble we went through…

…We were crushed and overwhelmed

beyond our ability endure,

and we thought we would never live through it.

In fact, we expected to die.

But as a result,

we stopped relying on ourselves

and learned to rely only on God,

who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 1:8-9

Blessings of Courage

April 20, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

Be on guard.

Stand firm in the faith.

Be courageous.

Be strong.

And do everything with love.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

Blessings of Enthusiasm

April 19, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

…be strong and immovable.

Always work enthusiastically for the Lord,

for you know that nothing you do for the Lord

is ever useless.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Blessings of Coming Transformation

April 18, 2017 janrhodes Leave a comment

…We will not all die,

but we will all be transformed!

It will happen in a moment,

in the blink of an eye,

when the last trumpet is blown.

For when the trumpet sounds,

those who have died will be raised to live forever.

And we who are living will also be transformed.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52

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