Romans 10&8

I have a zeal for you, father, according to correct knowledge which you have taught me. Therefore, I submit with gladness to your righteousness. That is, “Christ is the end of the law of righteousness to everyone who believes.”

I believe that. I believe that Jesus is the Christ, and that he has paid for my sins and fulfilled the law for me. Further, I do not have to go looking for Jesus, rather, he dwells in me in the person of your Holy Spirit, father. Jesus, the Word, is in my mouth and in my heart.

I say the same things Jesus says. I agree with your gospel, father. I believe in my heart that you raised Jesus from the dead. I believe unto righteousness, and I confess unto salvation of my soul and eternal life with you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

You were rich to me, father. I call on the name of the Lord, and I am saved. You found me even before I knew to seek you, and you showed yourself to me before I even asked. Thank you for your mercy to me, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Romans 9; Psalm 19; Romans 9

You, father, are God. You are almighty and sovereign over all your creation. Among the people you have mercy on whom you will, and you harden the hearts of whom you will. Ignorant people dare to respond to that and judge you as unfair, but that is a presumptuous sin.

Who am I a created being, a mortal man, to respond against God? Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel of honor and another for dishonor?

I believe that you, father, are busy showing your wrath and making your power known. You endure a rebellious stubborn people with patience while you make known to those who are your seed the riches of your glory according to your plans for redemption and salvation.

And so, by your grace, father, I have attained righteousness even the righteousness that comes by faith. You chose to be merciful to me, Lord, and showed me the cornerstone you laid in Zion. You gave me the faith to believe on Jesus, and I am saved from your wrath and placed in your kingdom.

Romans 9

Your word, oh Lord, does not affect everyone the same, for not everyone is your child. Not all people are your elect. All are born of the flesh, but not all will be born again of your seed, father

Your seed is predestined by your choice. When you chose us we were children not yet born, nor having done any good or evil, rather we were chosen by you that your purposes of election would stand, not based on works, but rather based on your grace and your sovereignty, father.

You tell me clearly, father, that you will have mercy on whomever you will have mercy, and you will have compassion on whomever you will have compassion. These are your choices, and they are not based on my will or effort.

You have your purposes, and you are sure to show your power through the circumstances that you ordain. Therefore, you have mercy on whom you will, and you harden the heart of whom you will.

Romans 8; John 16; Romans 8; Colossians 1; Romans 8

Father, it is written that for your sake we are killed all day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. So, I understand that in this world I will have tribulation, but I am of good cheer because I am in Christ, and Christ has overcome this world.

In fact, in all these things I am more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus who loves me. Nothing and no one can separate me from Jesus’s love: not persecution or distress, nor tribulation or fear.

For I know Christ dwells in me and that it is glorious. Your presence in me, Lord, assures me that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from your love, father, which is mine in Christ Jesus, my Lord.

Romans 3

Faith does not nullify the law, rather faith upholds the law. The whole world is held accountable to God by the law. Every mouth is silenced because we are unable to keep the law. Through the law we become conscious of sin.

But now, praise God, you, father, reveal to those who are yours a righteousness provided through Christ apart from the law. You make this righteous way known to us, and your word and your prophets testify to its truth.

Your righteousness, father, comes to me through faith and belief in Jesus as your Christ and as my Lord and Savior. This way of faith is the same for everyone.

There is no other way for all have sinned and fall short of your glory, father. However, even so, I am justified freely by your grace through faith in the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Psalm 118; John 14; Psalm 118

I give thanks to you, Lord God. You are good, and your mercy endures forever. I call on you, Lord, and you answer me, and you set me in abundant places. You are on my side, Lord, so I do not fear. Man can do nothing to me that you do not allow.

You take my part in situations, and I find favor with other people. I put all my trust and confidence in you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Many people and principalities are against you and your people, father, but that does not matter. All their machinations do not matter. You will thwart their plans and destroy them.

You are my strength and my song, oh Lord. You are my salvation. I have eternal life by your grace and power. I live to declare your works, father.

You have provided a gate for me to enter to you. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and I come to you, father, through Jesus, my Lord and Savior.

He is the stone the builders rejected, but he is your polished, perfect stone of the corner. This is your doing, and it is marvelous in my sight.

Romans 8; 2 Peter 1; 1 Corinthians 6

Thank you, father, that you foreknew me, and that you gave me revelation and an unction to love you. Now I recognize that all the events and episodes in my life are arranged by you to conform me to the image of your son.

You predestined me for this transformation; then you called me; then you justified me; then you glorified me by filling me with your presence.

You clearly state that you are for me. Therefore, nothing and no one can succeed against your will being perfected in my life. You delivered up your own son for my redemption. So, I can be sure that you will freely give me everything pertaining to life and godliness.

No charges can prevail against me because it is you, father, who justifies me. No condemnation can attach to me because Jesus has paid for my sins, and he is seated at your right hand, father, making perfect intercession for me.

So, I belong to you. I have been bought with a price. I am no longer my own, and nothing can change that assurance.

Romans 8

Holy Spirit, all the hardship of this present life is not worthy to be compared with the glory of your presence in me, and the glory that will be revealed to me in the day of the Lord. In fact, the whole creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God.

For now the whole creation is subject to futility, but in your time, father, the creation will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Even now I groan within myself eagerly waiting for the redemption of my body.

So, I am saved in this hope. I can’t see it yet, but I believe it and eagerly wait on it with perseverance. During this time you, Holy Spirit, help me in my weakness.

Even when I don’t know what to pray, you, God the Spirit, make intercession for me with empathy beyond my knowledge. You, Good Spirit, make intercession for me according to the will of God, my father. Thank you for your glorious presence in me and for your communion with me.

Romans 8

Thank you, father, that by your grace I no longer walk according to the flesh, but now I am born again by your spirit, and I live according to your spirit. The very spirit of God now dwells in me.

Christ is in me, and my body is dead because of sin, but my spirit is alive forever because of Christ’s righteousness. The very spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in me. You, Holy Spirit, give life to my mortal body.

By your spirit, father, I put to death the deeds of my body, and I live in Christ. I am led by you, Holy Spirit, so I know I am God’s child. You, Holy Spirit, bear witness to me in diverse and special ways, so that I know that I am God’s child. Since I am God’s child, I know that I am an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ.

I will be tested in some ways as Jesus was tested, and I will overcome these tests by your presence in me, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and I will be glorified for your pleasure and my joy.

Romans 8

Thank you, father, that you called me and put me into Christ Jesus. There is therefore now, no condemnation for me for I am in Christ. Through Christ Jesus the law of the spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death.

You sent your son in the likeness of sinful man. He became the sin offering, and so he condemned sin and sinful man, and he fully met the righteous requirements of the law in and for me.

Now, by your grace, father, I am born again, and I no longer live according to the sinful nature, but I live according to what God, the Spirit who dwells in me, desires. My mind is renewed, and my thoughts are led by you, Holy Spirit, and I dwell in life and peace.

Christ is in me, and my body is dead because of sin, yet my spirit is alive forever, because of Jesus, my righteousness.