Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life, then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will make the answers known to you through Jesus Christ. So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honourable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure & holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always. Follow the example of all that we have imparted to you and the God of peace will be with you in all things. Phil 4v6-9 And because of him, when you who are not jews heard the revelation of truth, you believed in the wonderful news of salvation. Now we have been stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit. He is given to us like an engagement ring is given to a bride, as the first instalment of what’s coming! He is our hope- promise of a future inheritance which seals us until we have all of redemption’s promises and experience complete freedom - all for the supreme glory and honour of God. Eph 1v13-14 And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favour until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might and explosive power. Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life. Eph 3v16-17 Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all for his miraculous power constantly energies you Eph 3v20-21 But we thank God for giving us the victory as conquerors through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One. So now beloved ones, stand firm, stable, and enduring. Live your lives with an unshakable confidence. We know that we prosper and excel in every season by serving the Lord, because we are assured that our union with the Lord makes our labour productive with fruit that endures. 1Cor 15v57-58 through our yielded lives he spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere we go. We have become the unmistakeable aroma of the victory of the anointed One of God - a perfume of life to those being saved and an odour of death to those who are perishing. The unbelievers smell a deadly stench that leads to death, but believers smell the live-giving aroma that leads to abundant life. And who of us can rise to the challenge? 2Cor2v14b-17 Now it’s because of God’s mercy that we have been entrusted with the privilege of this new covenant ministry. And we will not quit or faint with weariness. We reject every shameful cover-up and refuse to resort to cunning trickery or distorting the word of God. Instead, we open up our souls to you by presenting the truth to everyones conscience in the sight and presence of God. Even if our gospel message is veiled, it is only veiled to those who are perishing, for their minds have been blinded by the god of this age, leaving them in unbelief. Their blindness keeps them from seeing the day-spring light of the wonderful news of the glory of Jesus Christ who is the divine image of God. We don’t preach ourselves, but rather the lordship of Jesus christ, for we are your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “let brilliant light shine out of darkness,” is the one who has cascaded his light into us- the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus christ. 2Cor4v1-5
