Maranatha Grace Church

Brothers and Sisters,

¹⁷ I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. ¹⁸ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, ¹⁹ and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength ²⁰ he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 1)

Paul's prayer for the Ephesians is a re-boot prayer, I pray a similar prayer for myself when I find myself a little bit unfocused.

Père de gloire, donne moi un esprit de sagesse et de révélation, dans ta connaissance, illumine les yeux de mon coeur, pour que je sache quelle est l'espérance qui s'attache à ton appel, quelle est la richesse de la gloire de ton héritage que tu me réserves, et quelle est envers moi qui crois l'infinie grandeur de ta puissance, se manifestant avec efficacité par la vertu de ta force. ( Repeat a few dozen times a day?)

Please read Galatians 5 - Ephesians 1. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

 ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2)

Please read 2 Corinthians 13 - Galatians 4. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

³ For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. ⁴ The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. ⁵ We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ( 2 Corinthians 10)

Please read 2 Corinthians 10 - 12. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.(2 Corinthians 8)

⁸ And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.(2 Corinthians 9)

Please read 2 Corinthians 7 - 9. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. ² For he says,

“In the time of my favor I heard you,
    and in the day of salvation I helped you.”

I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.(2 Corinthians 6)

Please read 2 Corinthians 4 - 6. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. (2 Corinthians 1)

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Please read 2 Corinthians 1 - 3. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. ² For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. ³ But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. ⁴ Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church. ⁵ I would like every one of you to speak in tongues,but I would rather have you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified. (1 Corinthians 14)

Please read 1 Corinthians 12 - 16. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you! 

Brothers and Sisters,

²³ For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” ²⁵ In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” ²⁶ For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. (Corinthians 11)

Please read 1 Corinthians 9 - 11. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

Please read 1 Corinthians 6 - 8. And Listen. 

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— ¹⁰ not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. ¹¹ But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

¹² What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? ¹³ God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.” (1 Corinthians 5)

Please read 1 Corinthians 3 - 5. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him— ¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.(1 Corinthians 2)

Please read Romans 16 - 1 Corinthians 2. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

⁸ Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. ⁹ The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”^[a] and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”^[b] 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Romans 13)

Please read Romans 13 - 15. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

 ⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. ¹¹ As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.” ¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, ¹³ for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. (Romans 10)

Please read Romans 10 - 12. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you! 

Brothers and Sisters,

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Please read Romans 7 - 9. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!

Brothers and Sisters,

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in^[i] Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

Please read Romans 4 - 6. And Listen.

May the Lord richly bless you!