In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should,
On our own, we don't even know what to ask God for, or how to ask, or how to talk to God at all!
but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;
The Holy Spirit prays prayers on our behalf in such passion that there are not even words in any language that can express them.
and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
He who made us knows us better than we know ourselves, and He also knows what God wants for each of us; so He asks for what He knows we need, the way we need it, when we need it, to accomplish God's will, what He graciously wants for us. There's no way we can beat that deal!
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
God has a purpose for everything He made. Including each of us. And He is so wise and clever that He planned out how He wanted to do everything that gets done, how He would use what He made to accomplish what He wanted done.
God is weaving His Tapestry, composing His Symphony, constructing His Masterpiece; one thread, one note, one stroke at a time. Using each of our stories.
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
We will be among all His uncountable number of brothers and sisters.
and those whom He predestined, He also called;
Our destination is predetermined, our way there depends on our choices.
No one can come to Jesus unless the Father calls him (John 6: 44).
and these whom He called, He also justified;
Everyone who responds to the Father's drawing, He washes clean in the precious Blood of Christ, so is justified.
and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
God sees the end from the beginning. Jesus has been glorified, and we will be, too, as His body.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
How can anyone be against us, with the Creator on our side! Or we on His side!
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all,
Yes, He chose the human race to be His children, giving up His own Son.
how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
He placed everything He made in His hand, and we are His!
Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the One who justifies;
Nothing can stick, we're slick!
who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
God sent Christ Jesus to take our condemnation, and raised Him from the dead to prove He accepted the payment in full for us.
Who will separate us from the Love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Just as it is written,
For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered (Psalm 44: 22).So there is nothing anywhere that can make God Love us less!
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who Loved us.
Jesus conquered every enemy of ours, overwhelmingly, for us. Because He Loves us so passionately! As His bride.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the Love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Nothing living or dead, nothing material or spirit, nothing in any Time-period, nothing in any dimension, nothing in any realm or Universe, can change how much God Loves us, in His own Son, Christ Jesus, who is our Lord!
O my dear Father God, Your Love for us is so far and deep and strong and expansive, our puny brains just cannot conceive it! We can't wrap our heads around Your Love for us!
You have made sure that all our enemies will be defeated and destroyed. And until they are, You will fight for us and protect us from harm; and will hold us and console and comfort us when we're wounded.
But our battle-scars are nothing compared with the hands and feet of our Lord and King! He suffered separation from the Father for three hours, an interminable length of time!
That's how much You Love us, each of us, me! You Love me more than I can imagine! When I think about it, I just can't get to the end of You. I feel that the farther I go into Your Love, the farther there is to go!
O Father, please send more workers out into all Your fields; send us out to find all Your lost sheep. Let everyone hear how much You Love them! Fill Your great house with all Your children, that every place at Your grand Banquet Table will be occupied, and we all will enjoy feasting with You in sweet fellowship!
And every eye shall see, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is our Lord and Christ, our Lord God Almighty, our sovereign King of the Universe, to the eternal glory of Almighty God the Father, for ever and ever. Amen.
Even so, come swiftly, Lord Jesus!
