GOD REVEALS HIS PLAN TO US THROUGH HIS WORD AND HIS SPIRIT

1 Corinthians 2:10 God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person's thoughts except for their Spirit within them? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words led by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, "Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

As we study and hear the Word, we become mature and think like Christ.  The transforming power of the Word opens our hearts and minds to the things of the Spirit, and this gives us wisdom, knowledge, and freedom from the flesh, as it reveals to us God's plan for our lives.

Lord, when we think of what and who we were when we were called, it saddens our hearts; we were wise by the standards of the world, which kept us in darkness.  But Father, You chose us even though we were foolish thick-neck sinners.  Lord, You chose us when we were weak and lowly; so no one can boast about their lives; it is because of Christ that we are His people.  Father, Your Son, is our connection to You, who makes us holy and gives us redemption.  Father, we were infants in the world, but now we are Soldiers, filled with Your wisdom and knowledge, prepared to do good works in Your Kingdom and serve others.  Father, let not our Spiritual Leaders narrow their teachings to the people's comfort zone; but, preach the Word as it is written, so that the people will receive conviction and correction of their sins.  Lord, the works You have prepared us for will be revealed to us by Your Spirit, giving us a strong desire for Your Word, which teaches and rebukes us so that You may work in and through us.  In Jesus name Amen

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