20 February 2022
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Things Can, Do, & Will Happen in the World (TMF:1795)

Friday, February 25, 2022
Peace to Live By: Things Can, Do, & Will Happen in the World (TMF:1795) - Daniel Litton
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       It’s also true that even if we were to face famine, nakedness, danger, or physical violence against us, that this doesn’t mean God doesn’t love us. I believe this can be a temptation for us, to think that when troubling times come, or a troubling event, that we believe God is upset with us about something or has turned against us. Most of the time those thoughts are unfounded. Unless we are deliberately sinning, we realize that we will have trouble in the world, as Jesus told us, but that doesn’t mean that God is against us or doesn’t love us. In fact, it is true that sometimes God calls people to more intense suffering, which will include these things. The Apostle Paul could definitely testify to that fact. There are missionaries, for instance, in our day and age who have faced these kinds of sufferings. In Paul’s case, he said probably about himself (quoting Scripture), “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No Happening Can Separate Us from God (TMF:1794)

Thursday, February 24, 2022
Peace to Live By: No Happening Can Separate Us from God (TMF:1794) - Daniel Litton
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       Nothing we can do, nothing anyone else can do, nothing that can happen, anything you can think of, in all of that nothing can separate us from the love of God. It is good for us to break down what Paul is saying in these verses by defining what the specific life problems could be. The first thing Paul talks about is tribulation. This word isn’t only talking about the electric going out or our car breaking down. No, this is talking about any type of significant or great problem that we face in life. Next, we see the word distress. I think the idea here is that we have been trapped by a circumstance and are in need of help. Persecution obviously is brought on by unbelievers typically. It is when people come against us for our faith in Christ, our been faithful in following him. People can speak things against us, tell lies about us, or physically come against us in different ways.

Being Thankful to God While We Wait (TMF:1793)

Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Peace to Live By: Being Thankful to God While We Wait (TMF:1793) - Daniel Litton
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       It’s important that no matter how long we wait for our favorable response, that we are thanking God in the waiting time. Our thankful attitude toward God allows God to work in our lives. Being unthankful and ungrateful, and complaining because we don’t yet have what we feel we should have, prohibits God’s progress toward our request. Verse 35: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” No matter what, nothing can separate us from Christ’s love toward us. Once we become a Christian, we are home free. Nothing we can do, nothing anyone else can do, nothing that can happen, anything you can think of, in all of that nothing can separate us from the love of God.

Letting God Know Our Needs & Desires (TMF:1792)

Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Peace to Live By: Letting God Know Our Needs & Desires (TMF:1792) - Daniel Litton
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       I feel it is important for us to be lifting our prayers to God so that the Lord Jesus Christ can actually to be informed as to what we would like him to specifically pray for. It’s not that he doesn’t know already, but God tells us to tell him what our needs are. Philippians 4:6 states, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God” (ESV). This is a part that we have to play. Nevertheless, I think once we do let God know what our needs and desires are, Jesus will intercede to the Father on behalf of those things. It’s not that Jesus just intercedes for us at the time we have an emergency or something like that. I believe he prays for us no matter what our concern, need, or desire is. It’s important that no matter how long we wait for our favorable response, that we are thanking God in the waiting time. Our thankful attitude toward God allows God to work in our lives.

Jesus Intercedes in Prayer for Us (TMF:1791)

Monday, February 21, 2022
Peace to Live By: Jesus Intercedes in Prayer for Us (TMF:1791) - Daniel Litton
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       Now let us think about the glorious fact that our Lord actually intercedes in prayer for us, as believers. This is an amazing thing. I’m not sure we can comprehend the tremendous amount of help this has had to bring to us over time, throughout different life situations we have been through. I have noticed that sometimes at the moment I have an issue and go to God in prayer for it, it’s maybe a half hour later that I start to feel better about whatever it is, and I believe that’s because the Lord Jesus Christ has interceded for me based on the prayer I said to God. Christ’s intercession is a strong encouragement for us since we know that we always have someone praying for us, especially when we ask. We cannot always control what happens in our lives, but we can control how we respond in those situations, and Christ’s intercession no doubt will help us to be more pleasing to God.