BLESSINGS FROM THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

My Dear Precious Child,
    Paul straightened out the believers in the church at Corinth through his stern letter of correction about, one, the denominational divisions among them; two, their still being babies in spiritual matters; three, their allowing and therefore approving of the man who was sleeping with the wife of his father; four, their suing one another in the courts of unbelievers; five, their eating food sacrificed to idols; six, their allowing emotional displays of only speaking in tongues in communal gathering; seven, their making idols of earthly materials and worshiping them; eight, their arguing and wrangling with each other; nine, some of them had adopted the doctrine that there is no resurrection of the dead; ten, that some people had adopted belief in the old covenant doctrine of Mosaic religious Law being combined with the new covenant of the Holy Spirit and several other beliefs of false prophets.  He was distraught about their having abandoned devotion to the precious earthly treasure of having the Holy Spirit live inside of them.  It was because of their infantile amount of spiritual revelations that Paul chastised the believers in the Corinthian church so sternly. (I Corinthians 1:1-2)
     After the believers in Corinth received Paul's stern letter of correction and took the corrections to heart as being from the Holy Spirit, Paul wrote them a second letter, one of commendation that they had repented and sought to re-establish My new covenant of the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives.  He explained in detail My good works in enlarging the working of the Holy Spirit in their midst and explained in detail that My power is resident in the Holy Spirit.  He referred to My Holy Spirit as a treasure in earthly vessels in the earth in the lives of people, that they possessed the Holy Spirit through My mercy, so therefore they must not yield to discouragement.  Rather than becoming discouraged, Paul wrote in the second recorded letter that they must refuse shameful, underhanded practices.  He wrote that My children do not resort to trickery or falsifying My words.  (II Corinthians 4:1-2)
     Paul assured the Corinthian believers that My children do not resort to trickery in the ministry of the Holy Spirit, but instead they speak the truth openly and he commended them to every person's conscience before Me.  He proclaimed that if their gospel was called "veiled" in any way that it was only veiled to those people who were headed for destruction.  He told them again that their unbelieving minds had been blinded by the god of the earthly world, his being the devil, so that they did not see the splendor showing forth by the glory of Christ, who is My image.  (II Corinthians 4:3-5)
      In his profession of faith, Paul wrote that it was not themselves that the apostles preached, but that it was always Jesus Christ and themselves only as His Servants.  He gloried in the truth that I had let the Truth of "My light shine out of the darkness," in the world so that they might know My glory shining on the face of Christ.  It was in that comparison that Paul wrote that believers have My treasure of the Holy Spirit in their own earthen vessel so as to make it clear that His surpassing power is definitely from Him and not from humans. (II Corinthians 4:6-7) 
    It is because of that power of the Holy Spirit inside of believers in Christ that they are often afflicted but are never crushed, they are full of doubts but never yield to despair, they are persecuted but never abandoned, and they are often struck down but they are never destroyed, all because they carry about in their bodies the dying of the flesh of Jesus so that the life of Jesus Christ might be revealed in their mortal flesh.  He wrote that death is often apparent in the apostles while life is increased in the believers.  Paul reveled in the Spirit of faith that confirmed the scripture that said, "Because I believed, I speak out." knowing that I, who raised Jesus Christ from the dead, place Him and all believers in My presence.  He affirmed that everything is ordered by Me for the benefit of My children of faith so that My grace bestowed upon them may bring more greater glory to Me, because the people who give thanks to Me are many.  (II Corinthians 4:9-15)
    Another profession of faith and assurance was written by Paul in the letter which affirmed that believers do not lose heart because the inner person is being renewed every day even though the human body is being destroyed at the same time.  He said that the burden of being tried by the devil is light in relation to My power of the Holy Spirit, and His Spirit earns for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison because we do not fix our mind on what is seen with human eyes, but we fix our mind on what is unseen, because what is seen is certain to change but what things that are unseen will last forever because they are eternal. (II Corinthians 4:16-18)
    Paul's affirmation of faith in his second letter to the Corinthians has always been the standard supplied by Me for My children to set as their goal, that being to intimately know Christ through the revelation of the Holy Spirit.  In that endeavor, My light shines in the darkness and My eternal light heals and reveals all things.
    Your Father of Light