Verse For The 4th February 2020

1. RECEIVE.

Prepare your heart to hear from God. Try a simple prayer like this…
Heavenly Father, please help me understand this Bible verse.
…and then read the Verse For Today : Romans 5:3‭-‬5 NIV


"Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us."

2. REFLECT

Ask yourself what this verse might be trying to say, and think deeply on your answers. Here are just a few examples we might get from today’s verse........

Jesus expects me to share my faith with other people.
When I demonstrate God’s love, that draws others to Him.
I should work to remove things from my life that don’t show God’s love.
It is often through challenges that God grows my capacity to love others.


I believe this one is too show my faith to others. Because through my suffering I have endured pain and if it was not for God's  love being poured into my heart through the Holy Spirit I would not have been able to endure it.

So my suffering did produce endurance and endurance produced my character, and my charecter has produced hope. Because its my hope that builds faith in others that they can get through it.

I love the acrostic for HOPE.
Heating,
Other,
Peoples,
Experiences.

3. RESPOND.

Use this verse as the basis for a prayer.

Lord I am so lucky to be filed by your Holy Spirit. Which has given me the strength to endure the situations in my life.

And with this endurance I have built up my character and Hope in you .

I rejoice in all of this, not for my glory Lord but for yours. For your Son endured for us first on that cross.....Amen.