// Read: II Corinthians 5:11-17 //
11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!
MEDITATION:
These are seven forces that you have to overcome by the Holy Ghost to experience unstoppable progress in life:
1. Force of the Background
2. Force of Ignorance
3. Force of the First Around
4. Force of the Best Around
5. Force of Laziness
6. Force of Darkness
7. Force of Instability
Take note of these forces in your life, pray against them because they have the ability to:
- slow down a man
- keep a man in a repetitive cycle,
- deny a man progress,
- work against new development.
PRAYER: Pray for deliverance from each of these forces.