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| Our HOUSE of PRAYER at His Life Park, Bacolod City (under construction) |
Wednesdays 5am schedule, I decided to be back early this morning again.
Hallelujah! I was not alone!
I saw like-minded; committed people who would like to bring our HOP 5am to a NEW LEVEL with the following reasons:
- HOP Wednesdays 5am is a manifestation of PRIORITIZING what is IMPORTANT as Christian Leaders >>> PRAYING not just at a convenient, "any time" moment but in a STRATEGIC moment, such as DAWN WATCHES.
- HOP Wednesdays 5am is designed for ALL 5 Networks to join in prayer -- while all other prayer schedules is for SPECIFIC Networks, Sites and Teams, THE WEDNESDAY 5AM is for THE ENTIRE HOUSE (we are believing God for Kids, Youths, Young Professionals, Women and the Men) to be part of this regularly.
- HOP Wednesdays 5am is a demonstration of following the PRAYER LIFE of the MASTER -- Jesus >>> He prayed "while it was still dark" (Mark 1:35) -- here we see an indication of INTENTIONALITY, CONSECRATION and WHAT IS PRIME in everything He would be doing!
- HOP Wednesdays 5am has an anointing of making "CHAMPIONS" >>> like an athlete who would train his body --- this is a time to "buffet my body" [BEAT; DISCIPLINE; SUBDUE; TOUGHEN; ROUGHLY TREAT; HIT HARD and STRAIGHT] our BODIES (who loves to eat, sleep and do nothing INSTEAD of PRAYING, INTERCEDING and STANDING in the GAP for others. What does this mean? A quick reading of 1 Corinthians 9:27, would immediately tell you that we are to be MODELS and EXAMPLES that must be EMULATED (after we share, teach, preach to others what needs to be done, coz we ourselves DO so). In SUBDUING our bodies in the context of DISCIPLINED PRAYER, we could better lead others with Integrity and be above reproach.
American Standard Version
but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Darby Bible Translation
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
New International Version (©1984)
No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
World English Bible
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
New Living Translation (©2007)
I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But I subdue my body and I enslave it, lest I who have preached to others would be disqualified myself.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Rather, I toughen my body with punches and make it my slave so that I will not be disqualified after I have spread the Good News to others.
King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Weymouth New Testament
but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
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TWO
COMMENTARIES
BELOW on
1 Corinthians 9:27
(1)
BY GUZIK
I discipline my body: Discipline is a weak translation; the word
means “to strike under the eye; to give a black eye.” Paul didn’t want his body to lord it over his being.
i. Bring
it into subjection is literally to
lead about as a slave. Paul was
going to make sure that his body was the servant, and his inner man was the
master. The desires of his body were
not going to rule over himself!
ii. But Paul did not think the
body evil; after all, it belongs to Jesus (1 Corinthians 6:20). Nor would he agree with later ascetics who
punished their bodies in a quest for super-holiness. Through the centuries, there have been Christians known as flagellants, who would literally whip,
beat, and torture themselves in a misguided attempt to fulfill this verse. Usually, these Christians thought they could
pay for their sins through such self-torture, and they refused to recognize
that Jesus paid all the penalty of their sin.
e. Lest when I have preached to others:
Paul sees himself as both a herald of the games (who announced the rules), and
as a participant. Paul told others the
rules of the game, and he had to follow the rules himself.
(2)
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
But I keep under my body,.... The allusion is still to fighters, who, by cuffing and boxing, give their antagonists black and blue eyes, which is the proper signification of the word here used: so it is said (u) of Menedemus, that in questions or scholastic exercises, he was so vehement and pugnacious, that he never departed without , "carrying away black and blue eyes". This is not to be understood by the apostle of his natural body, and of his keeping it under by immoderate watchings, fastings, and labours, or by whipping and scourging, and lying upon the bare ground, and other such practices; but of the body of sin, the corruption of nature, and of that being laid under some restraints; of the mortifying the deeds of the body through the Spirit, of crucifying the affections with the lusts, of putting off the old man with his deeds, as concerning the former conversation, and of making no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof: it seems to be the same with what the Jews call (w), , "a subduing of a man's evil concupiscence": who is a strong man? they say (x), , "he that subdues his corruption", according to Proverbs 16:32 and again (y).
"the sons of Ulam were mighty and powerful men, , "subduing their corruptions", as man that draws a bow with wisdom.''
And bring it into subjection; so as not to serve and obey it in the lusts thereof; but to have the ascendant of it, and government over it, that it does not, and cannot reign as it formerly did: the allusion is still to the combatant, who gets and keeps his antagonist under him, and has the command of him, and throws him on the ground, or drags him about at pleasure:
lest that by any means when I have preached to others; the Gospel of the grace of God, for their souls' profit and advantage, to gain and save them; and have called upon them so to run, that they might receive and enjoy the incorruptible crown:
I myself should be a castaway, or rejected, or disapproved of; that is, by men: the apostle's concern is, lest he should do anything that might bring a reproach on the Gospel; lest some corruption of his nature or other should break out, and thereby his ministry be justly blamed, and be brought under contempt; and so he be rejected and disapproved of by men, and become useless as a preacher: not that he feared he should become a reprobate, as the word is opposed to an elect person; or that he should be a castaway eternally, or be everlastingly damned; for he knew in whom he had believed, and was persuaded of his interest in the love of God, and that he was a chosen vessel of salvation, that could not be eternally lost: though supposing that this is his sense, and these his fears and concern, it follows not as neither that he was, so neither that he could be a lost and damned person: the fears of the saints, their godly jealousies of themselves, and pious care that they be not lost, are not at all inconsistent with the firmness of their election, their security in Christ, and the impossibility of their final and total falling away; but on the contrary are overruled, and made use of by the Spirit of God, for their final perseverance in grace and holiness.
