Romans 11:1-24

Romans 11:1-6
Are you trusting in a label for your standing before God? It may be a church label, or a 'Christian' label. Nothing outside of salvation by God's grace through faith is sufficient.
Who have you lumped into a categorization and are either viewing them as a Christian or a non-Christian, based upon that categorization? Will you be bold enough to talk with them about your relationship with God?
Where is God asking you to step out and stand for Him, even if it means alone? Will you pray to God for victory? Will you ask Him to show you a remnant that will stand with you?

Romans 11:7-10
Who do you know is religious, yet hard hearted to the truths of God? Will you commit to pray for that person?
How have you been following in the same path as Israel? Putting tradition above the Bible. Not truly studying God's word but relying on someone else's message. Not living what you say you believe. Neglecting the teaching of God's word to your children.

Romans 11:11-16
Is your life as a Christian something that others would want or do others not see anything different in you? Will you ask God to show you how to live a more attractive and authentic Christian life?
Are you thankful to God for the fact that He gave the gospel to the Gentiles? How will you show your appreciation to God for saving you?

Romans 11:17-24
Do you appreciate the roots of the Christian faith in the Jewish people? How well do you show your appreciation by studying the Old Testament?
Are you viewing your in-grafting in a proper way? Are you humbled by the fact that God has grafted you in?

Romans 10:14-21

Romans 10:14-17
Where are you tonight? Have you heard the message of the gospel? Have you believed the message? Have you called on Jesus to save you?
Are you taking the directive to preach the gospel seriously? Who have you told the good news to lately?
Is the message you are bringing to the lost the right message? Is it clear? Does it include repentance from sin? Does it present Christ as the only savior?

Romans 10:18-20
Who do you know that has heard and understood the gospel, yet is disobedient and hard hearted? Will you ask God to soften their heart?
Who have you been afraid to share the gospel with because you know they will reject it? Will you obediently tell them anyway? Will you pray for that person?

Romans 10:21
Are you trying the patience of God by your obstinacy and disobedience? He is still holding out His hands, but they won't be held out to you forever.
How have you personally witnessed God's patience and persistence in your life or the life of someone you know? Will you thank Him for not giving up on you?

Romans 9:30-10:13

Romans 9:30-33

Are you striving for a right standing before God, or have you already obtained it?
Have you received God's gift of righteousness by faith, but now you are trying to keep it? It cannot be taken from you if God made you righteous.

Romans 10:1-4
Are you zealous for God? Is your zeal based upon correct knowledge? Do you really know the God of the Bible or do you just know about Him?
Is everything in your life in submission to God? If Jesus asked you a question about any area of your life, what area would you hope He avoided?
Is your heart's desire and prayer to God for the lost around you? If not, why not?

Romans 10:5-13
How well is your life reflecting the Lordship of Christ?
Have you believed in the work of Christ on your behalf for justification? Is Christ your Lord?
Have you felt shame for your sin here on earth, or are you waiting until eternity? If you are waiting, it will be too late.
If you have never placed your faith in Christ who died for you, what is holding you back from belief? Do you feel like you still have something to contribute? Are you waiting for some special revelation to you? Everything you need is clearly presented in the Gospel message. You must believe however.

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?

Romans 5:1-11

Romans 5:1-5
In what ways has God given you hope in spite of suffering?
How are you using the suffering God has brought you through to encourage and strengthen others who are experiencing the same thing?
How are your words and actions toward the lost different because of the hope you have in God?
How is the grace and peace you have with God being exhibited in your life before others?

Romans 5:6-8
How will you express your gratitude to God this week for Christ's death on your behalf?
In what way are the conditions of Christ's death especially meaningful to you? At just the right time. While we were helpless. While we were sinners.
How are you allowing God's example of true love, coupled with the love poured out in your heart, to be shared with your enemies?

Romans 5:9-11
In what way are you still trying to carry the burden of your own sin, not realizing the fullness of Christ's salvation?
Are you living as one who has been justified through Christ's blood, or are you also living as one who is saved through His life?
Who will you talk to this week about this great salvation that only Christ can give? Justification. Peace with God. Reconciliation. Joy in spite of circumstances. Love poured out for you and into you.

Romans 4:1-25

Romans 4:1-8
How is your striving through works leading to lack of assurance in salvation?
What guilt are you still carrying, thinking you have to work off the payment for a wrong?
How are you putting up a barrier to faith by adding works as a necessary element for justification?

Romans 4:9-17
What religious rituals or rites are you trusting in as acts of righteousness?
How are you incorrectly viewing God's justification as a system of merits in which you contribute good works to your account by performing certain religious acts?
What are you adding to faith as a means of salvation? Lord's Supper? Baptism? Confession? Good deeds?

Romans 4:18-25
Has your account been credited with righteousness, or are you still counting on your own deposits?
How is your faith like Abraham's? Against all hope believing. Without weakening. Not wavering through unbelief. Being strengthened. Fully persuaded that God has the power.

Romans 3:27-31

Romans 3:27-28
In what way are you boasting or proud of your spiritual position? Are you boasting about superior knowledge due to personal Bible study? A position in your Church? A Spiritual gift?
How are you comparing your walk with God to that of others and possibly looking down on them?
How is your theological or doctrinal pride blinding your to inconsistencies in your belief system?

Romans 3:29-30
Who are you believing for your salvation? Christ and His atoning sacrifice for you or is it something else?
What type of faith do you have? Is it saving faith, involving content, love, and commitment? Or is it mere intellectual assent to the facts of the Gospel?
Is your faith the type that causes you to follow Christ in obedience or are you still trying to live according to the dictates of your own will?

Romans 3:31
What system of rules are you trying to maintain in addition to faith in Christ?
What moral laws of God are you ignoring, thinking that the law is no longer important?

Romans 3:21-26

Romans 3:21-23
What have you placed your faith in? A church? A pastor? A teacher? Sacraments?
How has your faith in Christ changed your life?
Are you any different on the inside?
Or is your faith all external and for appearance sake?

Romans 3:24-25c
Have you been justified by faith in the work of Jesus on the cross? Are you sharing the gospel with others?
How have you been feeling yourself drawn back into the areas of sin that Christ redeemed you from? You are not a slave to sin if you have placed your faith in Christ for redemption.

Romans 3:25d-26
What barrier are you facing that is keeping you from placing your complete faith in Jesus' atoning sacrifice?
How are you treating sin as if God just overlooks it rather than realizing your sin penalty was paid by Christ?

Romans 3:1-20

Romans 3:1-8
What advantages has God given you in order to point you toward Him?
What has God entrusted you with? Are you taking the responsibility seriously?
How are your sinful habits showing a disregard for God's grace and mercy?

Romans 3:9-18
How are your actions, thoughts, and attitudes showing a lack of fear of God?
How are you rationalizing sin by telling yourself it only affects you?
How are you blaming others for the way you are rather than admitting you are a sinner?

Romans 3:19-20
How are you misusing the law as a means of obtaining righteousness?
How is God's law revealing to you your inability to meet His perfect standard?

Romans 2:1-29

Romans 2:1-4
In what areas are you judging other people?
Is your judgment true?
Have you checked your motives for judging?
Are you guilty of the same offense?

Romans 2:5-16
What could you do to gain a better understanding of God's view of right and wrong?
What are you doing with the knowledge of right and wrong that you have?
Are the good things you do motivated by a love for God or by your own self-interests?

Romans 2:17-29
What are you doing to make yourself right with God – outward religious activities or the gift of new life through Jesus Christ?
What religious rituals are you clinging to as signs of your salvation? Baptism? Confirmation? Communion? Confession?
Will you ask God to show you the true meaning behind the rituals and to make a change on the inside?

Romans 1:18-31

Romans 1:18-20
What qualities of God have you observed in nature lately? Have you praised God for them?
Will you spend some time this week observing God's creation and make a point of thanking Him for some aspect of it?

Romans 1:21-23
Do you have an untrue image of God in your mind – some incorrect way of thinking about Him?
Any idea that we have about God, that is inconsistent with His revelation in the Bible, is false.
When we hold a false view of who God is, when we worship, are we truly worshiping Him?
Will you ask God this week to show you this false view of Him and will you seek to find the truth of who He is in His word?

Romans 1:24-31
What unguarded areas of sin have you kept hidden in your life?
What wickedness are you tolerating by rationalizing its significance away?
What areas of your thoughts are you compromising in?
What are you allowing yourself to look at that God calls sin?
Will you ask God to deal with these areas of your life?
Will you confess them, repent and turn away before God's wrath is against you?

Romans 1:1-17

Romans 1:1-7
Is your life characterized as a life seeking to elevate the name of Jesus? If not, why not?
Is God's purpose and direction for your life more important to you than your own goals and pursuits?

Romans 1:8-15
Is there an area of work God has called you to, but you have not yet stepped out in obedience to do it?
Is there some job in your church that you know God wants you in, but you don't think you have the time?
Is there some other place you would rather be? Perhaps God wants to use you right where you are.

Romans 1:16-17
Have you ever experienced the power of God's salvation in your life?
Is your righteousness just that, your righteousness, or righteousness by faith in Christ?
If you have Christ's righteousness, are you still trying to earn God's favor by good works, or are you walking by faith?