Romans 9:6-29

Romans 9:6-13
If you are God's child, how will you show your gratitude to Him this week, for choosing you?
In what ways are you struggling with the doctrine of election and God's choice in salvation? Will you spend time this week meditating on God's attributes, realizing that all He ever has or ever will do is done in absolute perfection?

Romans 9:14-18
How have you questioned God's justice in our world? Were you justified in questioning Him? Do you know as much as God? If not, then you really have no business questioning Him.
How will you thank God this week for the mercy He has shown you? Will you thank Him for not giving you what you deserve – death? We all deserve that.
Will you take the knowledge of God's perfect justice and mercy to the lost around you this week? Will you tell them the good news of God's desire and ability to save them through the work of Jesus Christ? Will you pray for one person who you can share the truth of the gospel with this week?

Romans 9:19-24
In what ways is your life bringing glory to God?
Are you glorifying God as an object of wrath or an object of grace?
How concerned are you about God being glorified where you have influence? Is he glorified in your home? In your church? In your mind?

Romans 9:25-29
Are you willing to be part of God's greater purpose in the world? Are you ready to let God use you in any way He sees fit?
Are you positive that you are part of God's remnant? If so, How are you purposefully allowing God to use you to impact His world?
Who has God laid on your heart to pray for and invite to study God's Word with you, so they might see the glory of God through the study of Romans?

Romans 9:1-5

Romans 9:1-4a
Do you have relatives or friends that have rejected the Gospel message? Do you love them enough to continue praying for them, sharing the truth with them? Or, have you given them up as a lost cause? You can't save them, but God can use your love and life and words and prayers to move them.
What enemies do you have who are without Christ? Do you love Christ enough to desire their salvation? Do you recognize the transformation God can make in them? Will you let Christ love them through you? Will you pray for them? Will you share your faith with them?


Romans 9:4b-5a
What about you? What advantage has God given you? A spiritual heritage? Good Bible teaching in your Church?
How are you using the advantages you have? Or are you squandering them? Are you apathetic toward Christianity, like many in our country? Are you a Christian by name only, or does your life reflect what you say you believe?

Romans 9:5b
What have you done with Christ? Have you merely paid homage to a good teacher, an upstanding citizen, or have you submitted to Christ Jesus, Lord and Master of all?
How is Christ's life in you making a difference in your world? Does anyone know the difference? I don't mean by the things you oppose or approve of or by your political stance. I mean, are you a changed person? Are you a disciple? If not, whose life are you really living?
Who have you shared the gospel with lately? Will you pray for someone you can share with? The greatest tragedy in life is to come to the end and face a Godless eternity.

Romans 8:28-39

Romans 8:28-30
What difficulty have you experienced that, going into it, you couldn't see how anything good could come of it, but looking back, you see how God has used it for good?
Do you know that God is working all things together for your good, even and especially the unpleasant things? If you don't believe this, could it be because you are not a child of God?
Are you resting in God's sovereign choice or are you still striving?

Romans 8:31-34
What sins from the past still come up to haunt you with guilt? If you are in Christ, you are forgiven.
As a Christian, how are you living in fear that you might do something that could remove you from the love of Christ? No one can remove you from Christ's love. That's a promise from God.
What in you life are you holding back from God? He has held nothing back from you.

Romans 8:35-39
How does God's love, and the security in that love, compel you to live for Him and not for self?
What fear of the present or future are you holding on to? Will you turn it over to God for His purposes?

Romans 8:18-27

Romans 8:18
In what ways do you need to change your attitude toward suffering from a here and now focus to that of an eternal focus?
What ways are you enduring suffering, but not allowing God to be glorified in it?
How have you suffered in the past, and looking back, can see how God was involved all along the way? Will you thank Him for that suffering? For what He taught you? For a deeper faith?

Romans 8:19-22
In what ways have you experienced the fact that the whole of creation is in a state of decay and far from perfection?
What are you looking forward to in the new heaven and new earth?
How has the fact that God subjected creation to frustration effected your thinking about the current state of creation?

Romans 8:23-25
What limitations in your present body are you looking forward to being through with in your resurrected body?
How will you use the fact of the resurrection to encourage someone you know who is suffering physically?

Romans 8:26-27
How will you respond to God's will for your life this week?
What change in attitude do you need in your prayer life, realizing that the Holy Spirit is interceding for you?

Romans 8:1-17

Romans 8:1-4
What is holding you back from believing that Jesus is the only answer to God's demand for righteousness? Is pride keeping you from Him? Does salvation seem too simple to be true? Life is not simple, but God created it. The work of salvation is not simple, but God provided it in Christ. Don't let the Gospel's simplicity, condemn you for eternity.

Romans 8:5-11
Who controls your mind? Is it your flesh or is it the Spirit of God?
How have you been trying to experience an indwelling of the Holy Spirit, not realizing that He is in you if you are in Christ? He will not leave a believer. He will not indwell an unbeliever.
What are you looking forward to in regard to the resurrected body that awaits those who die in Christ?

Romans 8:12-17
What have you been holding back in your obligation to God?
How will you exercise you position as a son from this point on? Will you spend more time talking with Him? More time listening through His Word? More time trusting His leading?
What bad relations with your earthly father are a stigma to your relationship with your Heavenly Father? Remember, God is the perfect father. What your earthly father couldn't be, God is and much more. Trust Him.

Romans 7:1-25

Romans 7:1-6
What kinds of fruit are you seeing produced in your life?
Is the fruit in your life borne out of legalistic duty or out love for God and the working of His Spirit in you?

Romans 7:7-13
When was the last time you thanked God for His perfect standard? When was the last time you thanked Jesus for being the only human to keep that perfect standard? Will you make a point of thanking Him this week?

Romans 7:14-25
Are you struggling with sin? If not, why not?
What new desires has God given you for good, that you are struggling with?
What sin struggles are you aware of, that keep recurring?
How is your closeness in your relationship to God making you disgusted with sin in your life?

Romans 6:12-23

Romans 6:12-14
In what specific ways are you offering your body to God as an instrument of righteousness?
How have you seen God use your abilities or gifts to honor Him, help others, and produce a righteous outcome?
What things are you allowing into your body that show you are offering it to sin? What thoughts are you allowing? What images are you viewing? What activities are you participating in?

Romans 6:15-18
What new areas of obedience in your life is God leading you into? How will you ensure that you continue on in obedience?
What disciplines do you need to become more diligent at in order to follow through with your obligation to obey God? Are you studying His word? Are you praying regularly? Are you seeking His leading? Is your mind being filled with correct data?

Romans 6:19-23
How is your life reflecting God's holiness?
What areas of your life have become stagnant and need a fresh consecration to God's purpose for you?
How are you still indulging in the temporal benefits of sin, ignoring the wages of which is death?

Romans 6:1-11

Romans 6:1-4
How are you allowing what used to be natural, in Adam, even though you are now in Christ?
In what way do you need to change your thinking, realizing you are dead to sin, buried with Christ, and raised to live a new life?

Romans 6:5-10
What sin from your old self has risen up to become part of your life again? How was it once dead, but now is becoming a problem again?
How is your union with Christ in resurrection given you an eternal perspective on this life? How has it changed your attitude and concerned for those who are not dead to sin, but are still enslaved?

Romans 6:11
How are you showing an attitude of living to God in your life these days?
How will you change your attitude to one of counting yourself dead to sin, but alive to God?
In what ways is God changing your desires to reflect His desires for your life? Less self-centered, more other-centered.

Romans 5:12-21

Romans 5:12-14
How are you experiencing the results of Adam's trespass?
How are you allowing sin in your life that may not be a breach of any written law, and yet you're thinking it's okay?

Romans 5:15-19
What has your response been to God's gift? Have you ignored it, assuming you still have time? Or, have you, by faith, received the gift?
What are you doing with the gift God has given you? Are you keeping it to yourself? Or are you sharing it with others who are also in Adam?

Romans 5:20-21
What sin have you committed that you think is too great for God's grace?
How will you show your gratitude to God this week for the gift that came by His grace?