TUESDAY 5TH JULY,2016

TOPIC: THE WORD AND THE SPIRIT

TEXT: 1Corinthians 2:16 For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may Instruct Him?” but we have the mind of Christ.

When your mind is not open to the Holy Spirit, you cannot
Undastand God’s Word. So if you find reading the Bible unrewarding, boring and time wasting, try this: before you open your Bible, open your heart and pray, ‘Holy Spirit, show me what I don’t see and teach me what I don’t know.’ Paul writes: ‘…it was to us that God revealed these things by His Spirit. For His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.
No one can know a person thoughts except that person’s
own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except
God’s own Spirit. And we have received God’s Spirit (not the
world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom…we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths…. all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. For, ‘Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach Him? But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ’ (vs 10-16). This means knowing His will and His redemptive plan and purpose. Seeing things the way God sees them, values, and loves the way God does, and hates His way as well. The Bible is not like any other book. Its words are God-breathed; therefore when you approach the Bible You must ask the Holy Spirit to open. your eyes and give you understanding of the righteousness of Jesus in you.

MEDITATION: Heb 1:8

STUDY THE BIBLE
MK 13:14-37; 1KGS 7; HOS 9:1-16

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