Monday, February 27, 2012

Romans 8:22-27


22 We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now.
    
23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons).
    
24For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees?
    
25 But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure.
    
26 So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.
    
27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's will.
    
If you are being told that you have to believe on your own so that our Father can act or give you what you need, that is flat out wrong. It doesn’t matter at all if we don’t know what to pray for or ask for. Because we now have the Holy Spirit and He is constantly interceding for us and asking for what we do need. He takes our prayers and turns them into our Father’s Will so that we cannot help but be blessed beyond expression, Ephesians 3:20. 
Not only do we have our Father’s Spirit interceding for us, we have His Body.
Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them. Hebrews 7:25
We are saved to the uttermost through Christ. Our Father has given us everything that He has to insure that we are. So often people will take James 4:3 and try to say that we can ask amiss. The wolves in sheep’s clothing want our focus to be on us and our abilities and not on our Father’s abilities working through us. The Truth is that even if we do ask amiss, that doesn’t stop our Father from giving us exactly what we need. He just simply turns it around to match His will and we are blessed. Jesus intercedes for us and we are saved to the uttermost. 
This Truth also blows the notion that our free will drives our life’s. My prayer is that our Father is empowering you to see the Truth that sets us free. The Truth is that we are free from all laws that would ever convict us of sin. The Truth is we have all of our Father’s power insuring that we succeed. The Truth is that we are one with Jesus, so as He is, so are we in this world. And the Truth is that these blessings are what allows us to go and serve the world and meet their needs according to our Father’s riches and glory through Christ Jesus. 

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