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Shutting Down Our Whines with Worship: Praying through Romans 8:31-37 (NLT)

31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 

     Dear heavenly Father, when I consider your great love for us in Jesus, how it possible for me in indulge in whining, justify my complaining, or linger in griping? When I do the mercy-math, all the wonderful things you are to us and have done for us, FAR outweigh all provocations, irritations, and exasperations of life.

32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?

     You gave Jesus to us and for us; of course we can trust you for everything else we need, and bunches more you simply delight to give us.

33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

     You made us, chose us, bought us, reconciled us, and delight in us. Who cares what anybody else thinks, says, or feels about us? Forgive us for giving any other voice more power over our hearts than yours—whether it’s the accusations of the devil or the meanness of men, the contempt of our shame or the flattery of the world.

35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

      Through the hardest parts of life and the most joyful ones; in the crazy-making seasons and the oasis-like breathers; in the stories that vex us, and the relationships that test us—you love us, will never leave us, and will complete us. Father, we praise, bless, and adore you. So very Amen we pray, in Jesus’ merciful and mighty name.

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