And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow – not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. Romans 8:38 Read Romans 8:18-39. The book of Romans sure does have a lot of good nuggets to learn how to live a life for God. In today’s passage, we learn three things about daily living. Life is messy in the here and now, but we can look forward to the future. God works with the messy parts of life for the good of those who…
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Laboring In Prayer
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Colossians 4:12 Prayer is a strong battle tool against the enemy. What is amazing about it is all we have to do is prayer. Pray for ourselves and for others. Let’s take a look the words laboring. In this verse laboring fervently is wrestling in agony of prayer. Other translations use struggling. Struggling in the Greek word is agonizo. This is where we derive the English word agonize from. To labor, struggle, or agonize speaks of deep desire and…