Unshakeable Confidence
Added to the physical sufferings, we live in a sea of frustration of every kind, and inhibitions we cannot handle by ourselves. We are “compassed
by infirmity” and “groan” in distressing experiences, about which we do not even know how to pray for deliverances (8:2627). Obviously, Paul is now speaking of the varied disturbed conditions of our daily living: not just the physical, but family problems, economic shocks, fatalities, social
problems in our communities, crying needs of every kind, malicious personal hurts, family losses and whatnot.
In these distresses we “groan”; but we people of the Spirit know that the Spirit Himself is carrying our groanings to the Father in intercession. This gives us our one solid, unshakeable confidence that, however totally confusing and apparently humanly inextricable, all these things are actually working out for good. Meanwhile we love our God, no matter how painful the situations, because we know the path of our calling, with outcomes always good, good, good! What a word of faith, which has upheld millions! We might say that the air is full of verbal quotings of
Romans 8:28, that great favorite.
Continue Reading
- Into Deep Waters
- The Great Deception
- Under New Management
- The Basis of the Solution–Only Containers
- A Frustrating Complication
- Paul’s Answer
- Back to His Beginning
- Trouble with “I”
- Self-Effort is Satan-Effort
- Slain by the Delusion
- A Desperate Discovery
- A Big Difference
- Free at Last
- The Lost Secret
- Coming Honest
- A Crisis Moment
- The Change
- Spirit People
- Daily Living
- Permanent Tension
- Unshakeable Confidence
- Training Years
- Pointing Fingers
- “Mt. Everest” Scaled
- “Come On Up”
- To Sum Up
