Verses:
Romans 1: 1 - 17
My thoughts about the verses:
Faith is the core of living a Godly life. Faith helps grow the realm of God. This happens because the more people that has faith in God the stronger the will of God occurs. When you work with people that share the same faith you have a peace that surrounds you.
We all know people that we think of as having strong faith. We witness their faith because how they get through hard times in their life. We see them trusting God even as they struggle in life. They do not dwell on the bad things in life. They look at the good things that are going on in their life. Therefor they witness through their lives faith.
We are called on to have faith that goes beyond what we can physically see. It is easy to believe the things that we see. Yet, faith comes from that deep down emotion that allows us to see the things that are not visible. The people of Rome were living this kind of faith. Their faith was so strong that Paul felt that his faith was strengthened through theirs.
The fact that they had unconditional faith also allowed them to do the most important task anyone can be enlisted to do. That task is to share the good news. Paul let them know that they are to now share the good news with the rest of the world. The fact is that through their faith they would be able to tell others about the life of Christ. They had not personally witnessed the life of Christ. Yet, they believed what the apostles had told them. They experienced God's love through faith. They would soon be called to go to others and share the same news that they were given.
The Romans were much like us. We do not have Jesus physically walking among us. We have to believe through faith that God's power is able to take away all our sins. We then are convicted to follow God because of this new found faith. The one thing that we are all encouraged to do is to share the good news to others.
During my life I have been blessed with people that show faith just by the way they live. My mind wonders to my great grandmother. She couldn't read and all she could do was write her name. Yet, she knew the bible inside and out. She lived to be a hundred six years old and walked with faith all those years. She led a very pure life she loved her family. She lived by faith. She didn't beat us over the head with the Bible. Yet, she lived her faith by true example. Each one of us knew that we had come in contact with someone that had faith stronger than any mountain.
One of my favorite stories that she shared is when she was a midwife. They would come from all over her small rural county to get her assistance. She would get up in the middle of the night or leave what she was doing in the day to go help someone deliver a child. She did it for years, she never got paid money, and people would give her gifts like milk and food for what she did. One night this man came to her house desperate his wife was truly struggling. So she went to the house and things were not well. The man who was so distraught pulled a gun and said that if the baby and mom did not make it he would kill my grandma. So there she was under a gun helping someone that was truly struggling between life and death. She told me she prayed that God would keep them all safe and worked throughout the night. The baby was finally born. The mom and baby made it through the night she didn't have modern medicine to help her she only had her faith.
When I think about that and the many other stories she shared I am convinced that her life was truly a walk of faith. I know the one thing that I can do is to live like her. Her faith wasn't verbal instead it was visual. To see someone not only talk the talk but walk their faith is something that we all need. I know that I am going through a lot right now. Yet, I know that if she was here living it she would be saying stay strong. I figure she would be amazed with the Internet. She would have learned her favorite thing and that is to turn things off. Her lasting memory was not to waste your mind on the trivial but worry about the big picture. I cannot tell you how many times she turned on the idiot box, TV, so people could spend time talking. I guess those are the things that I will always remember about this woman of great faith.
Prayer:
Dear God we thank you for dying on the cross. We thank you for the people that you put in our life that walk in faith. Dear God we ask you right now to grow our faith. Help us focus on you and spreading the good news throughout the world. We praise you for your everlasting love. Thank you for sending out your apostles to spread the good news to the entire world. Thank you for dying to take away our sins if only we believe in you. In the name of the Risen Savior we pray. Amen
Questions:
Do you know someone that walked the life of faith? Are you being an example to others on how to live by faith? Have you asked Jesus in your heart? Are you willing to spread the good news to those in need?
My thoughts about the verses:
Faith is the core of living a Godly life. Faith helps grow the realm of God. This happens because the more people that has faith in God the stronger the will of God occurs. When you work with people that share the same faith you have a peace that surrounds you.
We all know people that we think of as having strong faith. We witness their faith because how they get through hard times in their life. We see them trusting God even as they struggle in life. They do not dwell on the bad things in life. They look at the good things that are going on in their life. Therefor they witness through their lives faith.
We are called on to have faith that goes beyond what we can physically see. It is easy to believe the things that we see. Yet, faith comes from that deep down emotion that allows us to see the things that are not visible. The people of Rome were living this kind of faith. Their faith was so strong that Paul felt that his faith was strengthened through theirs.
The fact that they had unconditional faith also allowed them to do the most important task anyone can be enlisted to do. That task is to share the good news. Paul let them know that they are to now share the good news with the rest of the world. The fact is that through their faith they would be able to tell others about the life of Christ. They had not personally witnessed the life of Christ. Yet, they believed what the apostles had told them. They experienced God's love through faith. They would soon be called to go to others and share the same news that they were given.
The Romans were much like us. We do not have Jesus physically walking among us. We have to believe through faith that God's power is able to take away all our sins. We then are convicted to follow God because of this new found faith. The one thing that we are all encouraged to do is to share the good news to others.
During my life I have been blessed with people that show faith just by the way they live. My mind wonders to my great grandmother. She couldn't read and all she could do was write her name. Yet, she knew the bible inside and out. She lived to be a hundred six years old and walked with faith all those years. She led a very pure life she loved her family. She lived by faith. She didn't beat us over the head with the Bible. Yet, she lived her faith by true example. Each one of us knew that we had come in contact with someone that had faith stronger than any mountain.
One of my favorite stories that she shared is when she was a midwife. They would come from all over her small rural county to get her assistance. She would get up in the middle of the night or leave what she was doing in the day to go help someone deliver a child. She did it for years, she never got paid money, and people would give her gifts like milk and food for what she did. One night this man came to her house desperate his wife was truly struggling. So she went to the house and things were not well. The man who was so distraught pulled a gun and said that if the baby and mom did not make it he would kill my grandma. So there she was under a gun helping someone that was truly struggling between life and death. She told me she prayed that God would keep them all safe and worked throughout the night. The baby was finally born. The mom and baby made it through the night she didn't have modern medicine to help her she only had her faith.
When I think about that and the many other stories she shared I am convinced that her life was truly a walk of faith. I know the one thing that I can do is to live like her. Her faith wasn't verbal instead it was visual. To see someone not only talk the talk but walk their faith is something that we all need. I know that I am going through a lot right now. Yet, I know that if she was here living it she would be saying stay strong. I figure she would be amazed with the Internet. She would have learned her favorite thing and that is to turn things off. Her lasting memory was not to waste your mind on the trivial but worry about the big picture. I cannot tell you how many times she turned on the idiot box, TV, so people could spend time talking. I guess those are the things that I will always remember about this woman of great faith.
Prayer:
Dear God we thank you for dying on the cross. We thank you for the people that you put in our life that walk in faith. Dear God we ask you right now to grow our faith. Help us focus on you and spreading the good news throughout the world. We praise you for your everlasting love. Thank you for sending out your apostles to spread the good news to the entire world. Thank you for dying to take away our sins if only we believe in you. In the name of the Risen Savior we pray. Amen
Questions:
Do you know someone that walked the life of faith? Are you being an example to others on how to live by faith? Have you asked Jesus in your heart? Are you willing to spread the good news to those in need?
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