11//01                 Romans 9:1-3  

With Christ as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it. 2 My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief 3 for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed—cut off from Christ!—if that would save them. 

CARE

We are to care for each other.  Christ is all and He is in us.  We share what we have in us with others.  Jesus is Lord.  

10/31          Romans 8:37-39 

No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

NOTHINGNothing can separate us from the Lord.  Nothing means nothing.  No eye has seen no mind conceived the wonders and joys that the Father has in store for us. Every victory we need we find in Jesus.  He is God’s everything. 

10/30          Romans 8:33-36

Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. 35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.” ) 

REBUKE

We rebuke you demon, criticism whatever is accusing us, we rebuke in the name of Jesus Christ.  Jesus is Lord and He is Lord of me.  Rebuke evil in the name of Jesus and it will flee from you.  Do not give evil control over you.  Paul calls us to run from evil.  Run and rebuke.  The Lord rebuke you evil, in Jesus name I claim victory today.  

10/29          Romans 8:29-32 

For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory. 31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 

EVERYTHING

Everything you need today is supplied in Jesus Christ.  Jesus is God’s everything.  Look to Jesus.  He is the solution to any question you have.  Praise the Lord who carries us in His triumph in Christ.  Praise the Lord.  

10/28          Romans 8:28 

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. 

MEMORIZE

Memorize this verse in total.  Remember God’s promise to you.  You will never be alone, left behind, at wits end because your Father in Christ Jesus is always taking care of you.  He knows the end from the beginning and He knows what is going on with you.  Jesus is Lord and you are forever His.  

10/27             Romans 8:24-27 

We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. 25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.) 26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.  27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will. 

SOONLife is very short and quick and one day soon we will stand face to face with Jesus.  We will know Him.  We will be with Him face to face.  Our hope is realized and our desires for intimacy with the Lord are fulfilled.  We will be like Jesus and we will be with Jesus.  

10/26             Romans 8:19-23 

For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. 

LOOK

We trust the Lord today and with great anticipation look forward to the future when we will no longer struggle with sin every day of our existence.  Jesus is Lord of us and Lord of eternity.  

10/25             Romans 8:15-18 

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” 16 For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.  17 And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. 18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 

FATHER
We can call our God Father. Glory! He is our Father and we are His children. He loves us and is for us. He loves us more in one minute than any person ever created can love us in a lifetime. Jesus is Lord.

10/24             Romans 8:12-14 

Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. 13 For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 

WE

We are no longer slaves to sin, we have a choice.  But only by the power of Jesus can we exercise that choice.  Know the Lord and seek wisdom in Him.  He will lead you to the right way.  

10/23             Romans 8:9-11 

But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) 10 And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. 11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you. 

PAID

Jesus paid the price for our sin.  Now we live as we seek to become more like Him.  Our struggle is sin.  Only Jesus can deal with our sin and only when we come to Him and repent do we find the relief that our inner person is aching to have.  Jesus is Lord of life and death and us.