TRANSFORMED THROUGH COMMUNITY AND PROPELLED BY REVELATION
ROMANS 15:1-7
- GOD HAS CALLED ME TO JOIN INTO CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.
We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please our neighbours for their good, to build them up. Romans 15:1-2
- I CAN HAVE ENDURANCE AND HOPE BECAUSE OF GOD’S WORD.
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. Romans 15:4
Isaiah 55:8-13
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.”
- I CAN HAVE FAITH FOR THE FUTURE BECAUSE GOD HAS PROMISED.
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. Romans 16:20
CLOSE:
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13