Topic:Who Condemns You Now? A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 29TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:31-34 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand of …
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Topic:From Eternity to Eternity A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 28TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:29-30 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. Romans …
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Topic:All Things A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 27TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:26-28 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes …
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Topic:Our Present Sufferings A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 26TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:18-25 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans 8:18 The theme of that verse and the next nine verses is that incomparable glory lies ahead — glory beyond description, greater than anything you can …
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Topic:Assurance A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 25TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:15B-17 And by him we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Romans 8:15b-16 What Paul describes here is our deepest level of assurance. Beyond the emotions, beyond the feelings, is a deep conviction that is born of the Spirit of …
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Topic:Children of God A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 24TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:14-15B For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. Romans 8:14-15 We are …
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Topic:The Spirit and the Body A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 23RD READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:8-13 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised …
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Topic:Two Possibilities A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 22ND READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:5-8 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. Romans 8:5 There are two possibilities as Christians that will determine if we …
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Topic:The Continuing Struggle A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 19TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 7:7-25 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the …
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Topic:A New Husband A DAILY DEVOTION FOR SEPTEMBER 18TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 7:1-6 Do you not know, brothers and sisters — for I am speaking to those who know the law — that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as …
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