{"id":1221,"date":"2018-09-19T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2018-09-19T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:21:22","slug":"devotion-romans-831-38-im-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Devotion      Romans 8:31-38     I\u2019m With Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv5829716507ydpc02e2ed8MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Romans 8:31-38\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0<i>\u201c31\u00a0What then shall we say to these things?\u00a0If God\u00a0is\u00a0for us, who\u00a0can be against us?\u00a032\u00a0He who did not spare His own Son, but\u00a0delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?\u00a033\u00a0Who shall bring a charge against God\u2019s elect?\u00a0It is\u00a0God who justifies.\u00a034\u00a0Who\u00a0is\u00a0he who condemns?\u00a0It is\u00a0Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen,\u00a0who is even at the right hand of God,\u00a0who also makes intercession for us.\u00a035\u00a0Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?\u00a0Shall\u00a0tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?\u00a036\u00a0As it is written: \u201cFor Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.\u201d\u00a0 37\u00a0Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.\u00a038\u00a0For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor\u00a0principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,\u00a039\u00a0nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5829716507ydpc02e2ed8MsoNoSpacing\">So God is for me.\u00a0 What, wait a minute!\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 Well, since He is the only All-Powerful being in existence, and always will be the only one, then I am absolutely protected because God is on my side.\u00a0 Since He did not spare His own Son but sent Him to die for me then I am absolutely and eternally saved because God is on my side.\u00a0 Since God Himself washed away all sin from me, then He will not validate any accusations against me.\u00a0 So I am absolutely sinless because God is on my side.\u00a0 Since Jesus died for my sins and calls me His own then I am absolutely His child because God is on my side.\u00a0 Because there is nothing physical or spiritual that can separate me from the love of God then I am absolutely loved because God is on my side.\u00a0 God is for me, Jesus has claimed me as His own, and nothing can come between God and me.\u00a0 I am absolutely God\u2019s child because God is on my side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5829716507ydpc02e2ed8MsoNoSpacing\">God is on our side and nothing comes between us.\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t we feel the same way toward God?\u00a0 With the protection of God, we should always be on God\u2019s side, no matter what or who opposes our relationship with Him.\u00a0 We stand with God who choose us to be on His team. We stand with God, always and forever, we stand with God! \u00a0Praise God!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5829716507ydpc02e2ed8MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5829716507ydpc02e2ed8MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5829716507ydpc02e2ed8MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 8:31-38\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201c31\u00a0What then shall we say to these things?\u00a0If God\u00a0is\u00a0for us, who\u00a0can be against us?\u00a032\u00a0He who did not spare His own Son, but\u00a0delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?\u00a033\u00a0Who shall bring a charge against God\u2019s elect?\u00a0It is\u00a0God who justifies.\u00a034\u00a0Who\u00a0is\u00a0he who condemns?\u00a0It is\u00a0Christ who died,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[94,17,10],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}