Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ministry of the new covenant

MINISTRY OF THE NEW COVENANT




2 Corinthians 3:2 - 6

2) You are our epistle written in our hearts, known & read by all men;

3) you are manifestly an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

4) And we have such trust through Christ toward God.

5) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves but our sufficiency is from God,

6) who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.



The New Covenant is ministration of the Spirit. As the Holy Spirit ministers grace & blessings in a divine power & life. We as ministers of the New Covenant we need to walk by the Holy Spirit. It has its glory & fruits; which is demonstrated in & of the Power & the Spirit.



Walking in the Spirit of God we would bave sufficiency from God. We would be able to the the Words of God. We would be able to speak the words of God. That the Word of God be written in the heart & in their life. To walk in that privilege of grace & to be a minister of the Spirit!



We need to study the Word until we walk in the Spirit power & what God means for the ministry to be. To open up, to praying & laboring for God.



The Spirit has twofold work. One is giving holy disposition & character. Second is qualifying & enpowering people for work.



We should receive the promise of Christ that we should receive the HOLY SPIRIT our HELPER. The Holy Spirit is to be used in our services. Ministers should know what it is to be Led of the Spirit



Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin & death.



A ministry should know & experience a heavenly life & power. He should be a persoal witness & become the proof of the truth & power of God. All the work can be done by the power of the Spirit.



1 Peter 1:12

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to *us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven -- things which angels desire to look into.



1 Corinthians 2: 3 & 4

3) I was with you in weakness, in fear, & in much trembling.

4) And my speech & my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, bur in demonstration of the Spirit & power.



We need to lead God's children to live in His word, His promises, & for Christians to fully experience it's power as the Spirit ministers. To feed God's children the truth. Whether with intercessory prayers, or private for counseling or even for teaching them. Daily receive & claim the total anointing of the Holy Spirit.



Our Heavenly Father wants All of His children to live in a continual fellowship with Him. To do so is in the Holy Spirit, through bible study, prayer, faith, love & obedience.



In the church today there is now weaknesses, formalities, worldliness, lack of any holiness, no personal devotions. The Holy Spirit is not known in our churchs today. He's looking from the outside, looking in. He wants to be there!



ALL of us should be living & enjoying the power of the Holy Spirit! IT IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT. Take it in.



Compare churchs with the Word of God. If they do not teach God's word, find one & see what you are missing.



1 Corinthians 2:5

that you faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.



1 Corinthians 2:10 - 12

10) But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit seaches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

11) For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely to us by God.



Read 1 Corinthians 3: 5 - 17; which the ministers are fellow workers with God.

Then read 3:18 - 4:5; that is whee Ministers are Accountable to God!

More writing on it in 2 Corinthians Chapter 3.



Ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand, to teach you what can be done. What to do. Become Spirit lead.

That our hearts be one with God. To walk in the Spirit of God. To be contiually in prayer. To minister of the New Covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit of God!!



AMEN & AMEN







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