~ God Is For Us… With Us…
In Us! ~
God Is For Us (saving
and justifying) ~ “What then shall we say to these things? If God
is for us, who can be against us? He
who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He
not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against
God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is
he who condemns? It is Christ who died,
and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” (Romans
8:31-35).
God Is With Us (keeping) ~ “Behold, I am with
you [Jacob] and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this
land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you” (Genesis
28:15). “‘Behold, the
virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name
Immanuel,’ which is translated, ‘God with
us’” (Matthew 1:23). “But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one” (2
Thessalonians 3:3). “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been
given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go
therefore and make disciples of all
the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and
lo, I am with you always, even to the end
of the age.’ Amen” (Matthew
28:18-20).
God Is In Us (indwelling) ~ “Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that
God has for us. God is love, and he who
abides in love abides in God, and God in
him” (1 John 4:15-16). “And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My
people’” (2 Corinthians 6:16).
Jesus
said, “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that
they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also
may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given
them, that they may be one just as We are
one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and
that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have
loved Me. Father, I desire that they
also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory
which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the
world. O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known
You; and these have known that You sent Me.
And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be
in them, and I in them” (John 17:20-26).
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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