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MAY 24
Read: Romans 8:22-26
Reflect: What questions do you have after reading this passage?
Respond: Comment below to share your response to reading and reflecting on these passages.
MAY 25
Read: Romans 8:22
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now;Reflect: What have you worked hard to change in the world?
Respond: Comment below to share your response to reading and reflecting on these passages.
MAY 26
Read: Romans 8:23
and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.Reflect: What would “redemption of our bodies” mean for you?
Respond: Comment below to share your response to reading and reflecting on these passages.
MAY 27
Read: Romans 8:24
For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen?
Reflect: For what do you hope?
Respond: Comment below to share your response to reading and reflecting on these passages.
MAY 28
Read: Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Reflect: What is it easy for you to wait for patiently?
Respond: Comment below to share your response to reading and reflecting on these passages.
MAY 29
Read: Romans 8:26
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.
Reflect: How does the Spirit help you?
Respond: Comment below to share your response to reading and reflecting on these passages.
MAY 30
Read: Romans 8:22-26
Reflect: How will this message influence what you do this week?
Respond: Comment below to share your response to reading and reflecting on these passages.
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Redemption of our bodies could mean we are no longer bullied for the way we look.
I think verse 26 is one of the verses in the whole Bible that speaks to me and comforts me the most. My prayers are often tangled messes, it seems, and I give up and just rest in the Spirit, knowing that God knows my heart and mind much better than I. And, sometimes, I “hear” the Spirit and am moved to act. How glorious and treasured are those times!