Author	Thread: Romans Chapter 8:verses 38-39
Admin	Romans Chapter 8:verses 38-39 Posted : 1 May, 2010 05:59 PM The Apostle Paul writes: "For I am PERSUADED( CONVINCED), that neither death, nor ife, not angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor thing to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus oyur Lord." What do you think gave Paul casue to be PERSUADED or CONVINCED, and have such convition in knowing and believing that nothing could frustarte God's love for us, nor could there be any potential enemy who could come between this powerful love? Do you feel this same conviction? what say you? ella Post Reply
View Profile History	Romans Chapter 8:verses 38-39 Posted : 1 May, 2010 06:26 PM yes i do feel the same conviction. death would only bring us to Jesus terrible things bring us closer to Him Just like nothing could separate my daughter from me, she will always be my daughter, nothing can change that. We will always be God's children, we have received the spirit of adoption. ( Romans 8:15.) We were grafted into the vine. Thats my take on it ;) Riveroflife Post Reply
View Profile History	Romans Chapter 8:verses 38-39 Posted : 1 May, 2010 09:17 PM i don't know about him. but i can tell you about me, when God started showing me glimpses of himself, as i saw more and more of him i just could not conceive how he could possibly love me. this truth just made rifts within me and i could not stand myself, i still try to think of him to get my mind off of my inadequacies. his unfailing love convinced me that no matter where i go, or what i do, or nothing at all can stop him from loving and coming for me. all my life i experienced supernatural things that continually strengthen my faith and trust in Christ. things stranger than fiction have happened to me, but God was always there. sometimes i would lie in my bed and just as i feel the tears coming i would smell this sweet perfume, it didn't stop me from bawling but it comforted me and i knew that he was right there. another time i could actually feel him holding me, another time i was literally on my way to hell, being hightailed away by some creatures, but i called out for him ..the first time nothing, the second time a little louder but then i got desperate and started wailing that's when i saw a huge white wing and viola i was safe again! what did i do to deserve it? i donno, but one thing i know for sure is that neither hell, nor death, nor angels nor things seen, nor things unseen, nothing! can separate me from his love:yay: nyanda:purpleangel: Post Reply
View Profile History	Romans Chapter 8:verses 38-39 Posted : 2 May, 2010 08:26 AM Nyanda and River, you guys are right on. Isn't God's grace awesome?!:applause::applause::yay: I remeber when I was in the world doing my thing,. although I was raised in a christian family, father a minister, mother a missionary. I left the church after high school, because I wanted to experience the world of night club entertainment. I did and experienced many things, but I made a conscious decision not to cross over the lines of my home teachings even though I really had not expereinced the true touch(born again expereince) in my life, I still knew what was right and what was wrong. God protected me from many things including drug and alcohol, wasn't nothing I had any parts of, it was God's grace and mercy and love toward me. Sure I around many things but never found myslef involved in them. And I can only give God the Praise and Glory for His protection. But I still was in sin. But when I decided to turn my life around back to my christian up bringing and back to God, and experience the touch of my Master hand (born again experience). I could not for the life of me, figure out how God would receive me back into His family,or use me in ministry because of my sins. But God would always lead me to the passage in 2 Corinthians chapter 12, wheren He tells Paul, "My grace is sufficient".. But it was along process for me to understanding what He meant by His grace is sufficient for me, and His strength is made perfect through my weaknesses. And each time He brough forth my sins, I would feel the shame and cry out to Him, and repent and I could feel the weigh being lifted, and feel Him drawing me closer to Him and feel myslef coming closer to Him and feeling His divine love. It was only after I began to read through the book of Acts, and saw Peter and Paul in action, and read all about what Paul had done to the churches and the saints of God because they believed in Christ Jesus. It was only after I began to read through Paul's letters explaining his sins and faults, and how God still chose him as one of the great writers of His word and ministers, that I began to believe and know that, YES, God could and does still love me, Even while I was a sinner lost in the world, Jesus still died for my sins. This is when I knew and were convinced and persuaded as Paul, that NOTHING on earth or in hell could separate me from His love, as long as I faced and repented of my sins, and continued to love Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. of course, knowing God loved me didn't give me a license to continue to sin, it protected me FROM sins. And I haven't looked back in all these 25 plus years. This is the same Paul, is speaking about in this passage. No matter what he did to the church and to God's saints in his past, and as he writes he was the chief of sinners, God still loved him enough and chose to use him as His messenger of the gospel. WOW! what great HOPE we have in knowing with much confidence, being fully persuaded with conviction and convinced in our hearts, that there is NOTHING, NOTHING that can separate us from the love of God through Christ Jesus when we turn from our wicked ways and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.:applause::glow: ella Post Reply
View Profile History	Romans Chapter 8:verses 38-39 Posted : 2 May, 2010 04:07 PM wow nyanda, those are awesome experiences! I love to hear about those. thanks for sharing that! Riveroflife Post Reply