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No More Surprises
Kenneth
Copeland
“But God hath revealed them unto us by his
Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of
God.” 1
Corinthians 2-10
God
is not full of surprises.
He’s not
an unpredictable being who likes to keep you guessing. Countless believers,
however, have the idea He is.
“You just never know what God
is going to do,” they say.
They base that idea on 1
Corinthians 2:9 which says, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him.”
They
interpret that scripture to mean that God is keeping secrets from His people.
But,
praise God, He isn’t!
In fact,
verse 10 says He’s given us His Spirit to reveal those secrets
to us! He desires for us to know everything that’s on His heart.
If you’re
in the dark about God’s will for you, you don’t have to stay that way.
He wants
you to know about His plans and provisions for your life. He’ll show them to
you if you’ll let Him.
So, don’t
depend on guesswork. Determine today that you’re going to start receiving that
revelation from the Holy Spirit.
As you
read the Word, pray in the spirit and ask Him to reveal to you the reality of
the Scriptures.
Ask Him
to shed His light on them and show you exactly how they apply to you.
Remember:
God isn’t in the business of keeping secrets from you. He’s in the business of
revealing them.
Take time
to listen to Him and you’ll never have to settle for a life of uncertainty
again.
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16
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1 Corinthians 2 English Standard Version (ESV)
Proclaiming Christ Crucified
2 And
I, when I came to you, brothers,[a] did not
come proclaiming to you the testimony[b] of God
with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For
I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I
was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and
my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so
that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men[c] but in
the power of God.
Wisdom from the Spirit
6 Yet among the
mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of
the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But
we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the
ages for our glory. 8 None of the
rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But,
as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear
heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
10 these things God
has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the
depths of God. 11 For who
knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in
him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts 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 understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And
we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the
Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.[d]
14 The
natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly
to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually
discerned. 15 The spiritual
person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For
who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we
have the mind of Christ.
Footnotes:
a. 1 Corinthians 2:1 Or brothers
and sisters
b. 1 Corinthians 2:1 Some
manuscripts mystery (or secret)
c. 1 Corinthians 2:5 The
Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women
d. 1 Corinthians 2:13 Or interpreting
spiritual truths in spiritual language, or comparing spiritual
things with spiritual
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV®
Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a
publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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