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  1. Encourange praying for the victims of the widespread terrorism in various cities. Also pray for the lost sheep commiting these crimes against their neighbors under the false narratives of racial inequality and peaceful protest (peaceful protest does not include murder, larson, assault, etc.). Prayers also for the men and women attempting to enforce law and order, servicemen are under more duress than usual. Pray that the officer in the focus of this time is tried in occordance of law, assumed innocent until proven guily, and sentenced or acquited according the rule of law.

  2. This section of Romans is so powerful! It gives me chills every time I read it. How can we possibly have any fear when we know without a doubt that our God, who is all-powerful, loves us so much, and has made us His heirs, holds us so close that absolutely nothing can harm our eternal souls?

    “And do what they will – hate, steal, hurt, or kill –
    Though all may be gone,
    Our victory is won;
    The kingdom’s ours forever!” – “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” verse 4, text by Martin Luther, composite translation

    And for those who may have difficulty understanding the King James Version, I offer the same section of Romans from the Evangelical Heritage Version.

    16 The Spirit himself joins our spirit in testifying that we are God’s children.

    17 Now if we are children, we are also heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him, so that we may also be glorified with him.

    18 For I conclude that our sufferings at the present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. 19 In fact, creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in the hope 21 that even creation itself will be set free from slavery to corruption, in order to share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.

    22 For we know that all of creation is groaning with birth pains right up to the present time. 23 And not only creation, but also we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,[f] groan inwardly while we eagerly await our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. 24 Indeed, it was for this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for something we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patient endurance.

    26 In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we should pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that are not expressed in words. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints, according to God’s will.

    28 We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose, 29 because those God foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined, he also called. Those he called, he also justified. And those he justified, he also glorified.

    31 What then will we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also graciously give us all things along with him?

    33 Who will bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies! 34 Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus,[g] who died and, more than that, was raised to life, is the one who is at God’s right hand and who is also interceding for us! 35 What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 Just as it is written:

    For your sake we are being put to death all day long.
    We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.[h]

    37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors[i] through him who loved us.

    38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers, neither things present nor things to come, nor powerful forces, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:16-39 (EHV)

    Footnotes
    [f] Romans 8:23 Or who have the Spirit as a first fruit
    [g] Romans 8:34 Some witnesses to the text omit Jesus.
    [h] Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22
    [i] Romans 8:37 Or we are completely victorious

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