Oh! My! THIS is going to be a good week! Have you read ahead…or taken a look at this week’s lessons? In case you haven’t, here is a sneak peek at just the chapter titles:
- Called and Chosen
- Desired
- No Longer Condemned
- Clean And More
- Alive With His Life
I AM what God says I am (take a glance back at the list)…and, therefore, I AM all those things! Talk about Truth and positive images to write in my inner identity album!
Are you a child of God? Have you been redeemed? Did Jesus die for you? Do you love God? If so Since ‘YES’ is the resounding reply… then take the verses below and insert your own name. Personalize this Scripture with your own name (like this: “…God causes all things to work together for good to <Coleen> who loves God, to <Coleen> who is called….”) OK? Perhaps you might read this aloud…reminding yourself audibly that ‘I AM what God says I am!’ This IS the image that God holds of y.o.u.! This is y.o.u. because your life IS Christ!
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to <y.o.u.> who loves God, to <y.o.u.> who is called according to His purpose.
For <y.o.u.> whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
And <y.o.u.> whom He predestined, He also called; and <y.o.u.> whom He called, He also justified; and <y.o.u.> whom He justified, He also glorified.
What then shall <y.o.u.> say to these things? If God is for <me>, who is against <me>?
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for <me>, how will He not also with Him freely give <me> all things?
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for <me>.
Who will separate <me> from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
But in all these things <I> overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved <me>.
For <I> am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate <me> from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus <my> Lord.
Romans 8:28-39 (paraphrased)
(And take a few minutes to go over to the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs blog…the song that is featured today could just be our ‘theme song,’ my friends!)
