How Can We Find Grace in Our Groanings : (Romans 8:26-28) Daily Devotional and Prayer
📔 Daily Devotion.In this episode of the Warfare Prayers podcast, Pastor Derrick Crosby explores the theme "There is Grace for Every Groan," reflecting on life's struggles and suffering caused by a fallen world. Pastor Derrick Crosby highlights the hope found in Christ, the comforting presence of the Holy Spirit, and the assurance from daily scriptures that God works all things for good. Listeners are encouraged to engage in daily prayer, daily devotion, and spiritual warfare, trusting God’s plan, remaining patient, and finding strength in faith. The episode concludes with a deliverance prayer, a Prayer Guide, and an invitation to support the podcast or receive prayer books.🔦 Key Devotional Moments. 00:04:39, "I know that it's hard to understand, but the Bible says, 'Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding.' Because you're limited, you're human, you groan, and you have a fallen nature. 00:07:13, "If you look back over your life, He's delivered you from danger, seen and unseen. God has kept you in times of trouble.00:07:13, "If you think back, He's healed you. He's restored you. He's forgiven you. He's been patient with you. Yes, you've had some good days, and you've had some mountains to climb, and maybe you've had some sleepless nights. But when you look around and you think things over, as the song says, all of your good days outweigh your bad days. So we won't complain. We will give glory to whom glory belongs—to God."💡 Main Takeaways- Concept of groanings in life related to struggles and suffering- Impact of sin and a fallen world on human experiences- The role of grace provided by God through Jesus Christ- Importance of hope as a source of strength and expectation- The function of the Holy Spirit in interpreting struggles and guiding believers- Assurance from scripture that all things work together for good- The metaphor of life as a construction site under God's guidance- Encouragement to trust in God's plan despite life's challenges- The purpose of pain and the testing of faith- Call to give glory to God and recognize His sovereignty in our lives📖 Today's ScriptureRomans 8:26-28Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.🛡 Spiritual Warfare Resources https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbL9sqcPLOrmzG0c91Igb6whttps://www.warfareprayers.org/shop🙌 Call To Action- Subscribe To Warfare Prayer Podcast for daily inspiration, devotion and prayer.- Share this episode with someone going through trails and challenges- Leave a review for Warfare Prayers Podcast.- https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/warfare-prayers-podcast-daily-devotions-deliverance--5866282/support Warfare Prayers TranscriptionWelcome to Warfare Prayers, the podcast where you will find guidance and strength for life's toughest battles. Here you'll be inspired and spiritually grounded through my daily devotions, discovering the power of deliverance and peace that comes from God's Word.So we are in the last series of the title: There is grace for every groan. Within this devotion series, we have talked about the fact that since Adam sinned and bit the apple, a curse entered into this world, and we feel this curse in what is called in the Bible "groanings." Paul says in verse 22, "For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with the birth pains until now." The groanings and birth pains are the suffering and challenges that we go through in life. It's cancer, it's diabetes, it's strokes, it's depression, it's arthritis. It's the pain of loss, the pain of death, the pain of heartache that we feel in this world. These are the groanings from sin, from a fallen world. But there's another turning point that happened in the world, and that is when Jesus Christ came and he died for our sins.And so now God has provided grace for every groan. There's grace, there's a medication, there's an injection for our pain. And it comes in the form of hope. We talked about in the first episode that we have hope, and that is an expectant hope. We are pregnant with God's Spirit. We are pregnant with destiny and we will birth that destiny. It is an expectant, unseen hope and the full manifestation of that hope will happen when we are in heaven and everything has manifested in its fullness, so we have an expectant hope.The second thing in the second episode I talked about that we have is the Holy Spirit. Even in our groanings, the Holy Spirit can take our groanings and interpret them and can help us in times of trouble. Even when you are misunderstood and you cannot find the right words because of our groanings, because of our fallen nature, the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and he will interpret how we feel and guide us towards the will of God. So there's grace for our groanings.Because we have hope, there's grace for our groanings. Because we have the Holy Spirit, there's grace for our groanings. And in our topic today, there is grace for our groanings because we have assurance. That is the main subject that I want to plant in your mind, soul, and spirit today. As you go through the trials of life, as you go through the groanings of life, know that we have assurance from God's Word.The Bible says in verse 28, and that is Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for the good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose." All things work together for the good. That simply means that regardless of what you are facing, regardless of your groanings and what you're going through, understand this: your life is under construction. Your life is under construction, and all you have to do is be patient and watch God put all of the parts together in your life. This scripture represents a "coming soon" sign at a construction site because at a construction site it is not pretty.It is a mess. There's red dirt. There's big tractors everywhere. There's pipes. There's steel beams everywhere. And when you look at all of this, it looks a mess. It looks disorganized. And sometimes that is how life can look. Life can look disorganized. Life can look a mess for you at times. But understand that there's a "coming soon" sign because God works it all together for the good. He gives us this hope of assurance. In this scripture, you see what it is now. Don't be discouraged by that. See what it will look like one day. According to God's word, he is working it together for your good. So be patient. Don't be discouraged. Don't be dismayed. Don't give up hope. God is working it all together in your life. I know that it's hard to understand, but the Bible says, "Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding." Because you're limited, you're human, you groan, and you have a fallen nature.But the word says, "Acknowledge him and he will direct your paths." See, we have assurance that all things will work out. There's a purpose for your pain. There's glory at the end of your story, and there will be double for your trouble. At a construction site, it has to be tested before it's used. God will test you before he bless you. In Peter he says that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor and glory—that is in First Peter. In Hebrews 3:4 it says, "For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of all things." The word declares that unless the Lord builds the house, they that labor labor in vain. See, you must believe that he has good intentions for your life, that God is good because he's been good to you. If you look back over your life, he's delivered you from danger, seen and unseen. God has kept you in times of trouble.If you think back, he's healed you. He's restored you. He's forgiven you. He's been patient with you. Yes, you've had some good days. And you've had some mountains to climb. And maybe you've had some sleepless nights. But when you look around and you think things over, as the song says, all of your good days outweigh your bad days. So we won't complain. We will give glory to who glory belongs to. It belongs to God. Brothers and sisters, there is grace for every groan. There's grace for every problem. There's grace for every situation. And his grace is sufficient. His power works best in your weakness. Three things that we have: we have hope, we have the Holy Spirit, we have his assurance that all things are working together for the good.Let us pray. Father, we thank you for this daily prayer. We thank you for this daily devotion. We thank you, Father, for the daily Scripture because it keeps us. It balances us. It gives us peace. It gives us strength. And we pray, Father, that we would take this devotion and we would walk in joy, because we know that in the midst of groanings, in the midst of trials, in the midst of tribulations, in the midst of everything that we go through, that, Father, you will take all of these dysfunc
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