The Word of God for wisdom:
Proverbs 22:8 (NLT)
8 Those who plant injustice will harvest disaster, and their reign of terror will come to an end.
The Word of God for inspiration:
Psalm 43:5 (NLT)
5 Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again—my Savior and my God!
The Word of God for encouragement:
2 Corinthians 3:6 (HCSB)
6 He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.
My observation:
There are some people who proudly boast that they are self-made. However, this was not the case of the Apostle Paul.
Those who God call into his service he equips them to do the work to which he has called them. When God calls he also enables.
Those who God calls, he also gives a message. Notice that God gave Paul a message, and the superiority of that message. Notice not only the content of the message, but notice also the character of the message. The message changed Paul's life, and it changed the lives of those he preached and taught the message.
2 Corinthians 3:2 (HCSB)
2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, recognized and read by everyone.
My prayer:
Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I praise and thank you that our ability to serve you comes from you. Father, I willingly declare my dependence upon you.
Father God, I thank you for the anointing of the Holy Spirit of God that you pour out upon your people, and for the power of the Holy Spirit that uses the word of God to change the lives of your people from the inside first, and then the outside. In Jesus name, Amen.
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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
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