I was reading Romans 8:28-32 today and found myself very encouraged:
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

(Glorified--greek word Doxazo, meaning
 - to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendour
 - to impart glory to something, render it excellent
 - to make renowned, render illustrious, to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged

We are being made GLORIOUS, full of the glory of God, transformed into the likeness of Christ!)

"What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?"

(All things: whatever is necessary to bring fulfillment to the good work that God has begun in us--overcoming the evil one and taking hold of all that Christ purchased for us on the cross!)

We are being renewed and transformed day by day. In the midst of situations and circumstances that seem to suggest that breakthrough is elusive, or that God seems distant, we need to go back to the truth of His Word and strengthen ourselves and encourage ourselves with it. Let us become a people who STAND upon the Word--and accept no other reality than the reality of God's truth. If God is for us, who can be against us? For the hope we have is glorious and His love never fails! Let's align ourselves with the truth, and as was prayed at Monday Night Prayer, stand in the gap for those who need the truth of God to rescue them.

Erin Wilson