PASSIONATE PURSUIT...IN ALL THINGS GIVE GOD THE GLORY

​2 CORINTHIANS 1:1-10
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia.
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be God, even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all comfort who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God for as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounded by Christ.
And whether we be afflicted it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raised the dead.
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
Paul begins writing this second letter to the Corinthian Church. The Corinthians were heavy laden in sin. They were faced with all manner of evil, He first mentions that he is an apostle and that his apostleship was not established by nab but by the will of God, he also mentions that he has a brother with him, Timothy. He is not alone in doing his Father’s will. He imparts the grace of God and peace so that the recipients of the letter can try the spirit and know in those days that they are coming in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ…thanking and giving reverence unto God who is the originator of all mercies and comfort.
Paul also mentions that Jesus Christ is the God of all comfort to remind and assure the afflicted saints living among a wicked and abominable people. Immediately he is addressing the spiritual need and tapping into the spiritual resource to impart the need for comfort. Paul states that the comforter comforts in all our tribulation so that we are able to comfort others. Therefore, by my bonds you are able to seek your own salvation with fear and trembling grasping hold of the hope knowing that if we are joint-heirs with his sufferings, we will partake of the Heavenly gift also. He said he doesn’t want us to be ignorant of the trouble that come with seeking the face of God and doing the Lord’s will. It is not a secret to youre fellow Christian and laborers in the Lord that there is power in prayer in the unity by the Holy Ghost.
Asia was a location that at one point noted in the book of Acts, the Holy Spirit forbade them to go, but then the appointed time came and a door was opened to have them disperse the gospel. Then they went and the Lord had stretched them beyond their own measure into His miraculous measure in Him. They weren’t in themselves, but in the measure of God. He had given them super natural strength to move in his spirit to do his will. The spiritual circumstance they were in had them wanting to die. Yet, to live is Christ and to die is gain. They had to die to the flesh to see the works of the spirit and to trust not in their own ability. They trusted their life in the hands of God. They learned the Lord’s name as deliverer. He will deliver if we trust in him.   #biblestudy #joinus #watch #pray #hope #faith #believe #love