Exciting discoveries!!! :-)

Romans 8:26-29
     "26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. 27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believerst in harmony with God’s own will. 28 And we know that God causes everything to work togethert for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. 29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstbornt among many brothers and sisters. 30 And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory."

I found myself having a pity party yesterday morning. I was lying in bed waiting for my husband to be done in the bathroom and trying to pray; when I found myself having that pity party about my lack of progress in the "baby making" department. When I find myself in that situation I start to feel pretty guilty, since I've been trying to wait on His will and all of that; but yesterday I kept trying to pray what my heart was feeling and kept tripping over my words. I felt that everything I was saying was directly refuted in scripture but it was still the cry of my heart. I finally took this particular verse to heart and just let the Holy Spirit pray for me.

I think maybe with my love of talking that I sometimes get in the way of my prayers. I feel like I try and make my words into what God wants to hear, when I'm sure He just wants to hear my heart. I have always been a sucker for a guilt trip; and the Devil knows this and he uses it to his advantage all of the time. As I'm pouring out my heart to God, telling Him how sad I am that my arms are still empty, Satan will pull out his "trump" card and whisper some verse in my ear that makes me feel like I shouldn't be praying the way that I am...that scripture says "such and such" and my prayer is in direct conflict with that. God showed me this verse this morning for a reason. I think He's trying to tell me that if I feel conflicted in my prayer time, that I just have to let the Holy Spirit take over and then Satan loses that stronghold over me that he has.

Of course then, I saw verse 28, "And we know that God causes everything to work togethert for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.", and I'm led to smile again because He does work all things for His good, for me, who has been called according to His purpose! What a wonderful feeling that is, to know that I have been called according to His purpose for me! I am finding my reading time this year a little ironic; normally I identify with Peter more then I do with Paul, but this year Paul is really speaking to me in a way that I haven't noticed before. The book of Romans can be hard to read, because Paul is asking questions and answering his own questions in a pretty confusing way, but if you dig a little there are some pretty awesome gems in this book! Verse 28 is a fairly famous verse in the Christian world, but for some reason, I've been really identifying with being called according to His purposes!


"28 And we know that God causes everything to work togethert for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. 29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstbornt among many brothers and sisters. 30 And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory." These words give me chills they are so powerful! God KNEW me in advance. Psalm 139 speaks of this as well, but Paul takes it one step more; he says we are CHOSEN, CALLED, RIGHT and given glory! Just think about those words for a few minutes. How many of us long to be those very same things? Chosen, I've longed to be the popular one, the "pretty" one or even just the one for the job many times, but these verses say I AM the one for His job in me...I AM called by Him to do something amazing, He HAS given me righteousness and glory! God is good, all the time! All the time, God is good! I get excited seeing these words, and reading them and LIVING them! Thank you so much God for everything you've done!