Today Our Daily Bread 2 Cor 11 ( sorry so late- 'puter locked up 3 times while trying to post this, enemy does not want it spoken! BUT GOD does Amen)

Romans 16:19-20 For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet
Innocent in what is evil -This world makes us all think we are absolute dummies if we do not know evil, if we have not partaken in evil and if we do not think like or practice evil. I want to ask you, at the end of your days and in the presence of eternity what knowledge will you immediately become very aware of and have great regret to have known or not known? Think of what we’ve been studying (last month) about knowing good and evil), THAT is/was and always will be the wrong tree to eat from. That tree contains death, even if there’s a bit of life that appears to be involved, it is still death. When we eat of THAT tree we will surely die! The world is yelling and screaming out to us to get more knowledge of it, while only a still and quiet voice calls us to know Him. God does not have to yell He says if we seek Him, we will find Him. He’s right there, has always been right there and will always be right there for all who seek Him
All who seek Him,will find Him. He is so near, He does not have to post His name on every billboard, or every TV show, or be in every musical advertisement, or flaunt Himself in every newspaper ad. He is near enough to just call on His name. Forget the ads, TV, billboards, movies, newspapers, etc. They are inundated with enemy voices that call for us to come against everything that is God. Listen to His still small voice, calling. Decide to be innocent in what is evil. That will give a whole lot more time and space to the things of the word, the things of God’s spirit.
2 Corinthians 11:1-33
Paul and the False Apostles
1I hope you will be patient with me as I keep on talking like a fool. Please bear with me. 2I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. For I promised you as a pure bride F34 to one husband, Christ. 3But I fear that somehow you will be led away from your pure and simple devotion to Christ, just as Eve was deceived by the serpent. 4You seem to believe whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach about a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed. 5But I don't think I am inferior to these "super apostles." 6I may not be a trained speaker, but I know what I am talking about. I think you realize this by now, for we have proved it again and again.
7Did I do wrong when I humbled myself and honored you by preaching God's Good News to you without expecting anything in return? 8I "robbed" other churches by accepting their contributions so I could serve you at no cost. 9And when I was with you and didn't have enough to live on, I did not ask you to help me. For the brothers who came from Macedonia brought me another gift. I have never yet asked you for any support, and I never will. 10As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, I will never stop boasting about this all over Greece. F35 11Why? Because I don't love you? God knows I do.
12But I will continue doing this to cut the ground out from under the feet of those who boast that their work is just like ours. 13These people are false apostles. They have fooled you by disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14But I am not surprised! Even Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light. 15So it is no wonder his servants can also do it by pretending to be godly ministers. In the end they will get every bit of punishment their wicked deeds deserve.
Paul's Many Trials
16Once again, don't think that I have lost my wits to talk like this. But even if you do, listen to me, as you would to a foolish person, while I also boast a little. 17Such bragging is not something the Lord wants, but I am acting like a fool. 18And since others boast about their human achievements, I will, too. 19After all, you, who think you are so wise, enjoy listening to fools! 20You put up with it when they make you their slaves, take everything you have, take advantage of you, put on airs, and slap you in the face. 21I'm ashamed to say that we were not strong enough to do that! But whatever they dare to boast about—I'm talking like a fool again—I can boast about it, too. 22They say they are Hebrews, do they? So am I. And they say they are Israelites? So am I. And they are descendants of Abraham? So am I. 23They say they serve Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in jail more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. 24Five different times the Jews gave me thirty-nine lashes. 25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. 26I have traveled many weary miles. I have faced danger from flooded rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the stormy seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be Christians but are not. F36 27I have lived with weariness and pain and sleepless nights. Often I have been hungry and thirsty and have gone without food. Often I have shivered with cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm.
28Then, besides all this, I have the daily burden of how the churches are getting along. 29Who is weak without my feeling that weakness? Who is led astray, and I do not burn with anger?
30If I must boast, I would rather boast about the things that show how weak I am. 31God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows I tell the truth. 32When I was in Damascus, the governor under King Aretas kept guards at the city gates to catch me. 33But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the city wall, and that's how I got away!
FOOTNOTES:F34: Greek a virgin. F35: Greek Achaia. F36: Greek from false brothers.
~ Lena’s Journalin’ ~
I wrote a whole long deal with this text and it got all locked up and lost it. Pooh. I’m ready for a new system!
Anyway, the gist of it was…
Who has God set you with and in what local fellowship has He placed you in? It is just like a marriage and a family. God births us naturally into a specific family, not at all of our choosing. He does the same thing with those he places us with to teach us in the Body, in the local church "family". (I explained this so eloquently before :-0) Look at the signs, He causes us to meet certain people, is it certain fellowships, He sets us up in the household he desires us to be in. Paul is saying, do we not trust God’s leadership? Do we not recognize His direction? There are many different families we could be in, many different teachers we could literally hear, but He sets us where He’s set us up. When a person gets married, if the spouse keeps looking outside of the relationship the other spouse will not feel very secure and in fact it will be a violation of the covenant made to forsake all others and cleave unto one. The same is when we’ve been led into a certain fellowship and we keep looking elsewhere, when we’ve been fed a certain portion of the word and we keep looking elsewhere, dissatisfied. One reason it is so imperative that we get established and stay in one place is for the purpose of bearing fruit. At our cell mtg a few weeks ago, we went to Ps 1, Ez ? and Rev 2, where it speaks of us bearing fruit every month. When we have no roots anywhere, when we be-bop from place to place, eating a little here and a little there, staying in casual relationships in the spirit, the enemy has had his way with us and has messed with our walk, because he does not desire what God desires, fruit and fruit that remains. Fruit is birthed in intimate committed settings. To get to a place where we bear fruit every month, we’ve got to have deep roots. Even in a natural intimate relationship, we can only bear fruit once a year, but in the spirit, if we are rooted deep we can actually bear fruit every month. Can we ask an honest question? When was the last time you bore spiritually fruit, fruit that remains, such as leading someone to Christ and staying with them and teaching them and establishing them in a local church so they can grow to bear fruit for God also? I believe the initial deep rooting takes time, but once plugged in- there’s no time like the present and the harvest is abundant. The fruit is not about us growing as a person every month, though that is important, and should be happening. It is about bring forth others into God’s family. The growth in our personal walk, is the integrity it takes for me as a person to stay put, when I could go elsewhere, it’s the building of my character, that when I get to a place where people know me enough to see who I really am and to see me with "no make-up on" or whatever, what do I do and who am I? Do I stay in one fellowship long enough for that to happen, or do I only stay long enough to show my good side? Do I try to choose my own family? Or trust God to choose? Do I stay when it gets hard to? Or do I bail and look for another, better relationship, another better fellowship? I can hear Paul’s cry here. Why did God send you my way, to cause you to eat at other tables, to hear and follow other teachers? Paul, as a true father, though rejected or misunderstood, or suffering wrongly, would do it gladly for truth to be presented, for love to be expressed, for light to shine etc….To do the will of God without question.