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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

With our compass pointed north, we forge forward in the storms of life knowing that God is sovereign over all the situations that we encounter. And we as His children have that special comfort that He is working all things together for our good. We might not have asked for it. Odds are on the surface we don’t like it either. But deep down inside, we cling to the Lord by faith, trusting His invisible hand that is always wise and kind to fulfill His good purposes. That’s why Christians and only Christians can obey the command from 1 Thessalonians 5:18 to “give thanks…in everything…for this is God’s will for [us] in Christ Jesus.”
Randy Smith

When…people begin to give generously, they will enter into intense spiritual warfare. Satan knows how life transforming it is for believers to give obediently. He also know how God uses the financial resources we give to further His work on Earth. So, using fear and covetousness, our adversary fights ferociously to cripple our giving. That is why, in the context of spiritual warfare and the armor of God, we are commanded to pray for each other (Eph. 6:18).
Rod Rogers

Bible – English_World – Romans Chapter 5:1-21.

Index: World English Bible

 

Romans 5

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5:1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

5:2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

5:3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

5:4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

5:5 and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

5:6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

5:7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

5:10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

5:13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

5:15 But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

5:16 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

5:17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

5:18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.

5:20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;

5:21 that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.