Opening Prayer
Spirit of the Living God,
fall afresh on me,
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me.
Melt me, mold me,
fill me, use me,
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me.
—Daniel
Iverson, 1926
Romans 8:18-25
Yet what we suffer now is nothing
compared to the glory he will give us later. For all creation is waiting
eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.
Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God’s curse. All
creation anticipates the day when it will join God’s children in glorious
freedom from death and decay.
For we know that all creation has
been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And
even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste
of future glory, also groan to be released from pain and suffering. We, too, wait
anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children,
including the new bodies he has promised us. Now that we are saved, we eagerly
look forward to this freedom. For if you already have something, you don’t need
to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t have yet, we must
wait patiently and confidently. NLT
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