The Inseparable Love of God (1) [ Romans 8:38-39 ] Why can nothing separate us from the love of God? 1. Because God’s love is eternal. Romans 8:29a says: “For those whom He foreknew…” The word “foreknew” refers to before eternity began —before the creation of heaven and earth . The phrase “those whom He foreknew” does not simply mean knowing about someone intellectually, but rather loving them. In other words, it refers to “those whom God loved from eternity past.” Amos 3:2a says: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth.” If “known” merely meant intellectual knowledge, that would imply that God only knew Israel and did not know the other nations—which cannot be true, because the all-knowing God lacks knowledge of nothing. Therefore, “I have known you only” means “I have loved you only.” God loved Israel among all the nations of the earth. Hosea 13:5 says: “I knew you in the wilderness , in the land of great drought.” The “wilderness” was where the Israelite...
The prayer place I am looking for,
the prayer place that
the Lord is leading me to?
While
Apostle Paul and Silas were going to a place of prayer,
they
encountered a slave girl who was possessed by a fortune-telling spirit,
and
in the name of Jesus Christ, they drove the demon out of her.
They
were captured by her masters, taken to Roman officials, and ended up in prison.
They
were imprisoned and prayed in prison (Acts 16:16-25).
Clearly,
the place of prayer
that
Apostles Paul and Silas were looking for was not a prison.
However,
I think that Paul and Silas used the prison as a place of prayer,
guided
by God, who in His sovereignty also uses
the
guidance of those whom He wanted and did not want.
I
think that the fact that we prayed with this in mind (v. 16)
is a
lesson from God to each of us.
If we
are currently trapped in the East, West, South, and North,
and
the solution to the problem is clearly visible,
perhaps
that prison-like situation may be the prayer place that the Lord wants for us.
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