"At the same time, you need to know that I carry with me at all times a huge sorrow. It's an enormous pain deep within me, and I'm never free of it. I'm not exaggerating-Christ and the Holy Spirit are my witnesses. It's the Israelites... If there were any way I could...
"Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us...
"Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death." (Rom 7:9-10, NIV2)Why do we speed? According to Traffic Safety Facts, 2008,...
"For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not...
"So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God's good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel." (Rom 7:11-12, MSG)How can something so good be so deadly?Have we ever walked by a door on which was written the following...
"The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace." (Rom 8:6, NIV2)The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. Why? Because though we are unaware of it, we have treaded into the enemy's territory and have become...
"We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin." (Rom 7:14, NIV2)This is the reality of many amongst us. As God's Spirit doesn't reside in them, they realize that they are in no way spiritual. Instead, they wonder: "I do not...