CCYI GLOBAL : DAILY WORDSPIRATION AND SCRIPTURE READING

WORDSPIRATION

Good morning and welcome to a brand new week. The next seven days shall witness your spirit man set on fire 🔥 of the Holy Ghost. There shall be great koinonia taking place between your spiritman and the Holy Ghost, culminating is deep revelation. As you encounter revelation, there shall be a revolution in your life. One way to set your spirit man on fire is to engage in strategic fast, that is feeding your spiritman with the word of God. Praying in the early hours of this morning, I got a striking understanding. What God gave to Adam was the inspiration - the breath of God. But the coming of Jesus brought Wordspiration to us. In the beginning, the Spirit of the lord moved upon the face of the waters....Genesis 1:1-2, but in John 1:1-3,12 as many as received the word, gave he power to be sons of God. What the Spirit that moves was to creation is what the word is to redemption. As you engage in a fast this week, may the fire of revelation engulf your spiritman with word encounters. Have a splendid week ahead. Your change of story is sure to manifest.

HOW TO MAKE A LASTING IMPACT

On a less public occasion, Jesus took his three closest disciples, his executive committee as it were, to a mountain (later known as the Mount of Transfiguration). What these three disciples witnessed that night is recorded in Mark's gospel:

And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by them- selves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.

And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here.

Reference: The Leadership Style of Jesus by Michael Youssef

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

1 Corinthians 4

New King James Version

Stewards of the Mysteries of God

4 Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human [a]court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. 4 For I know of nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the [b]counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.

Fools for Christ’s Sake

6 Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be [c]puffed up on behalf of one against the other. 7 For who [d]makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

8 You are already full! You are already rich! You have reigned as kings without us—and indeed I could wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you! 9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle [e]to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! 11 To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we [f]entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

Paul’s Paternal Care

14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. 15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me. 17 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

18 Now some are [g]puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power. 21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?