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Connect_to_God_s_Heart_Tonight_[The_Spirit_Prays_with_Us · Abide Meditation App

• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Welcome to this abide bedtime story. This time is designed
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: to bring you comfort from God's word and to soothe
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: your soul from a long day as you drift into
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: a restorative sleep. As we begin, take a deep breath
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: and exhaling slowly settle in here. It's time to abide
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: in God's peace. It's time to rest with the Holy
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Spirit guiding us in prayer and with the words of
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul from romans At guiding our hearts and
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: minds into peace. Before we begin, take a moment to
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: get comfortable. They're just the lights.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: If you need to.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: Stretch out or curl up and let the days worries
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: and work drift away, they will still be there tomorrow
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: and God will give you what you need every day.
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: Now is the time to accept God's gift of rest.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: So let your head sink softly into your pillow. You
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: are a child of God and your Father is watching
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: over you as you sleep tonight. Imagine God singing over
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: you a lullaby that leaves you feeling safe, like a
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: child in their parents' loving arms. Feel yourself wrapped up
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: secretly in God's never ending love. If you're stressed or
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: release stressed to God. If you're worried, let those worries go.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Allow your heart to open. Bring your thoughts and your
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: feelings to God. Whatever they are, God can hold them.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Breathe in God's peace and breathe out your worries. God
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: is with you now. God is watching over you, and
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: God will work all things together for good for those
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  Speaker 1: who love Him, and nothing can separate you from His love.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: You can lie down and sleep.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Let's pray, Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to be with your child tonight as they sleep,
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  Speaker 1: To pray for them, to comfort them, to assure them
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: of your everlasting love. Thank you that whatever trials we face,
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: and whatever sins we commit, we can be sure that
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  Speaker 1: nothing can separate us.
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  Speaker 2: From your love. We praise you for the power of
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  Speaker 2: your love and the promise of your freedom.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Tonight, Please bless this child with the gift of sleep.
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: Soothe their heart, quiet their mind, bring relaxation to their body.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: Let these words from the Apostle Paul and romans Ate
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  Speaker 1: guide them into all comfort. May these words sink deep
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  Speaker 1: into their mind and spirit even as they rest. May
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: they be planted deeply in their soul to bear fruit
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: in the coming days. I ask this in the name
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: of Jesus. Return to your breath, noticing how it moves in.
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: And out, how it nourishes you. You don't need to try
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: to do anything, just be and just breathe. Paul writes,
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: there is.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: No condemnation for those who belong to Christ. Jesus, and
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: because you belong to Him, the power of the life
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: giving spirit has freed you from the power of sin
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: that leads to death. Breathe this end for those who
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: belong to Jesus and out there is no condemnation. Breathe
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: in for those who belong to Jesus and out there
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  Speaker 1: is no condemnation.
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: God, Thank you.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: For the forgiveness and reconciliation you have given us through Christ.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you that no one can bring a charge against
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: this child. Your children are free and clean in Jesus,
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: with nothing to fear. Thank You for giving us the
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: spirit to help us walk in newness of life. Let
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: your child hear and believe these words tonight. May these
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: words lead them into rest that is deep and nourishing
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: and sweet. Renew them as they trust in You. We
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: ask this in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: life in peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for life.
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: Paul says, you have not received a spirit that makes
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: had died. Did you as his own children?
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: We call him ahb a father, for his spirit joins
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  Speaker 1: with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: Picture yourself as a child with a good father. Your
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: father doesn't want you to live in fear. Your father
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't want you to keep working endlessly hard to please him.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Your father doesn't treat you like a cog in a
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: machine or a servant to do his bidding. Your father
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: chose you, and he runs after you. Your father treasures
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: you and delights in you. Your father forgives you time
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: after time, and nothing you can do changes the way
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  Speaker 1: he feels about you. He's not a distant father to you.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: He's your dad, the one who always loves you and
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  Speaker 1: will never disown you. Father, God, thank you for adopting
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  Speaker 1: this child to be your child, your beloved child, and
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: forgiving them your spirit. May your spirit speak to them
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  Speaker 1: now and let them feel your tender love. May your
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: spirits speak comfort to them and let them know they
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: are your child forever, Paul says. And since we are
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: we are heirs of God's glory. But if we are
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: glory He will reveal to us later. For all creation
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: creation was subjected to God's curse.
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: But with eager hope.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: The creation looks forward to the day when it will
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  Speaker 1: join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: For we know that all creation has been groaning, as
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  Speaker 1: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: And we believers also grown, even though we have the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,
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  Speaker 1: for we long for our bodies to be released from sin.
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  Speaker 2: Suffering.
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  Speaker 1: We too wait with eager hope for the day when
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: including the new bodies He has promised us. We were
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: given this hope when we were saved. Imagine a barren landscape.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Plants struggle to grow, Rains come too rarely or all
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: at once, the sun is too weak or too strong.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Animals fight for food and for dominance. Picture the landscape
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: transforming a gentle sun, a gentle rain, soil growing rich
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: and soft seeds sprouting in what once was a desert.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Trees offering towering shade and nourishing fruit.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: A lion lying.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Peacefully with a lamb enough for everyone, Families living together
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: in harmony. The cosmos flourishing, every part doing what God
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: created it to do. This is the future glory. God
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: has planned the kingdom of peace and wholeness, where the
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: curse is reversed.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: In the hints of new life and freedom we've experienced
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: in the spirit will come in their fullness.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: God, we join with all creation and eager expectation of
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  Speaker 1: this day when you will bring the full glorious freedom
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  Speaker 1: from death and decay. May Your Spirit bring more and
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: more of the first fruits of this Kingdom into our
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: lives and our world. Even now, Paul says, the Holy
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: know what God wants us to pray for But the
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: expressed in words. And the Father, who knows all hearts,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: knows what the Spirit is saying.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: For.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: own will.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: And we know.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he.
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  Speaker 2: Gave them his glory.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit praise for you now with language beyond words.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit praise for God's will to be complete
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  Speaker 1: in you, for you to flourish, and the calling.
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  Speaker 2: God has for you.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that the Spirit intercedes on your behalf.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that God will cause everything to
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: work together for good for those who love Him and
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: are called according to His purpose. Rest in the assurance
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: that you have been called to join in the sufferings
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: of Christ and also the glory of Christ. Paul goes on,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: what shall we say about such wonderful things as these?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Since He did not spare even his own son, but
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: gave him up for us all, won't he also give
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: us everything?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Else?
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  Speaker 1: Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his
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  Speaker 1: own no one, For God himself has given us right
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: standing with himself, Who then will condemn us?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: No one?
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  Speaker 1: For Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: life for us, and he is sitting in the place
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us. Can
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: He no longer loves us? If we have trouble or calamity,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: or are persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or in danger,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: or even threatened with death? There's the scriptures say, for
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  Speaker 1: your sake, we are killed every day, we are being
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  Speaker 1: slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory
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  Speaker 1: is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life. Neither angels nor demons, neither our
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even
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  Speaker 1: the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
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  Speaker 1: us from the love of God.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: That is revealed in Christ.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Jesus, our Lord, gracious and powerful God, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: these powerful promises. If you are for us, no one
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  Speaker 1: can stand against us. Every accuser will fall. Your spirit
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: intercedes for this child, your son, pleads on this child's behalf,
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  Speaker 1: and you have promised that nothing can ever separate this
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  Speaker 1: child from your love. Your love is not like human love,
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  Speaker 1: which fails. Your love never fails. Help this child to
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  Speaker 1: trust you. Even those suffering and trials will come. Help
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: this child to feel the assurance of the spirit within them,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: letting them know that.
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  Speaker 2: They are yours forever. God.
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  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
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  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it, that
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit. In
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Return to your breath, noticing how it moves in and out,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: how it nourishes you.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: To try to do anything.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Just be.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: And just breathe.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Paul writes, there is no condemnation for those who belong
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to Christ. Jesus, and because you belong to Him, the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: power of the life giving Spirit has freed you from
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the power of sin that leads to death. Breathe this
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: end for those who belong to Jesus and out there
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: is no condemnation. Breathe in for those who belong to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Jesus and out there is no condemnation.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: God, Thank you.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: For the forgiveness and reconciliation you have given us through Christ.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you that no one can bring a charge against
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: this child. Your children are free and clean in Jesus,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: with nothing to fear. Thank You for giving us the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: spirit to help us walk in newness of life. Let
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: your child hear and believe these words tonight. May these
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: words lead them into rest that is deep and nourishing
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and sweet, renew them as they trust in You. We
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: ask this in Jesus' name.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: life in peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Life in peace.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Paul says, you have not received a spirit that makes
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: adopted you as his own children. Now we call him
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Ah a father, for his spirit joins with our spirit
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to affirm that we are God's children.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Picture yourself as.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: A child with a good father.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Your father doesn't want you to live in fear. Your
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: father doesn't want you to keep working endlessly hard to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: please him. Your father doesn't treat you like a cog
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: in a machine or a servant to do his bidding.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Your father chose you, and he runs after you. Your
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: father treasures you and delights in you. Your father forgives
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: you time after time and nothing you can do. Who
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: changes the way he feels about you. He's not a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: distant father to you. He's your dad, the one who
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: always loves you and will never disown you. Father, God,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: thank you for adopting this child to be your child,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: your beloved child, and forgiving them your spirit. May your
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: spirit speak to them now, and let them feel your
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: tender love. May your spirits speak comfort to them and
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: let them know they are your child forever, Paul says.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And since we are his children, we are his heirs.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: But if we are to share his glory, we must
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: when God will reveal who his children really are. Against
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. But
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: death and decay. For we know that all creation has
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: been groaning, as in the pains of childbirth, right up
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: to the present time. And we believers also grown, even
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: to be released from sin and suffering.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: We too wait with.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Eager hope for the day when God will give us
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: our full rights as his adopted children, including the new
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: bodies He has promised us.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: We were given this.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Hope when we were saved. Imagine a barren landscape. Plants
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: struggle to grow, Rains come too rarely or all at once.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: The sun is too weak or too strong. Animals fight
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: for food and for dominance. Now picture the landscape transforming.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: A gentle sun, a gentle rain, soil growing rich and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: soft seeds sprouting in what once was a desert. Trees
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: offering towering shade and nourishing fruit.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: A lion lying.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Peacefully with a lamb enough for everyone, Families living together
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: in harmony, the cosmos flourishing, every part doing what God
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: created it to do. This is the future glory. God
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: has planned the kingdom of peace and wholeness, where the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: curse is reversed. In the hints of new life and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: freedom we've experienced in the spirit will come in their fullness. God,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: we join with all creation and eager expectation of this
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: day when you will bring the full glorious freedom from
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: death and decay. May Your Spirit bring more and more
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of the first fruits of this Kingdom into our lives
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: and our world. Even now, Paul says, the Holy Spirit
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: what God wants us to pray for, But the Holy
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: in words. And the Father, who knows all hearts, knows
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: what the Spirit is saying.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: For.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: own will.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: And we know.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: he gave them his glory. The Holy Spirit praise for
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: you now with language beyond words. The Holy Spirit praise
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: for God's will to be complete in you, for you
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: to flourish and the calling God has for you. Rest
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: in the assurance that the Spirit intercedes on your behalf.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that God will cause everything to
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: work together for good for those who love Him and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: are called according to His purpose. Rest in the assurance
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: that you have been called to join in the sufferings
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of Christ and also the glory of Christ. Paul goes on,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: what shall we say about such wonderful things as these?
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Since He did not spare even his own son, but
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: gave him up for us, all, won't he also give
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: us everything?
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Else?
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: own no one, for God himself has given us right
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: standing with himself, Who then will condemn us?
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: No one? For Christ Jesus died for us.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And was raised to life for us, and he is
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Pleading for us.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: mean He no longer loves us?
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: If we have trouble.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Or calamity, or are persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: in danger, or even threatened with death.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: As the scriptures say, for.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Your sake, we are killed every day, we are being
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: is ours through Christ, who loved us, And I am
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Life of.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: us from the love of God.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: That is revealed in Christ.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Jesus, our Lord, gracious and powerful God, thank you for
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: these powerful promises. If you are for us, no one
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: can stand against us. Every accuser will fall. Your spirit
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: intercedes for this child, your son, pleads on this child's behalf,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and you have promised that nothing can ever separate this
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: child from your love. Your love is not like human love,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: which fails. Your love never fails. Help this child to
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: trust you. Even those suffering and trials will come. Help
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: this child to feel the assurance of the spirit within them,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: letting them know.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: That they are yours forever. God.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it. That
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit. In
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: return to your breath, noticing how it moves in and out,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: how it nourishes you. You don't need to try to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: do anything, just be and just breathe all rights. There
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ. Jesus,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and because you belong to him, the power of the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: life giving Spirit has freed you from the power of
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: sin that leads to death. Breathe this end for those
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: who belong to Jesus and out there is no condemnation.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Breathe in for those who belong to Jesus and out
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: there is no condemnation.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: God, Thank you.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: For the forgiveness and reconciliation you have given us through Christ.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you that no one can bring a charge against
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: this child. Your children are free and clean in Jesus,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: with nothing to fear. Thank You for giving us the
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: spirit to help us walk in newness of life. Let
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: your child hear and believe these words tonight. May these
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: words lead them into rest that is deep and nourishing
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: and sweet. Renew them as they trust in you. We
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: ask this in Jesus' name.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: life in peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for life.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: In peace. Paul says, you have not.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: received God's spirit when he adopted you as his own children.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Now we call him Ah a father, for his spirit
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Picture yourself as a child with a good father. Your
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: father doesn't want you to live in fear. Your father
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: doesn't want you to keep working endlessly hard to please him.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Your father doesn't treat you like a cog in a
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: machine or a servant to do his bidding. Your father
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: chose you, and he runs after you. Your father treasures
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you and delights in you. Your father forgives you time
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: after time, and nothing you can do changes the way
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: he feels about you. He's not a distant father to you.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: He's your dad, the one who always loves you and
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: will never disown you. Father, God, thank you for adopting
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: this child to be your child, your beloved child, and
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: forgiving them your spirit May your spirit speak to them
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: now and let them feel your tender love. May your
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: spirits speak comfort to them and let.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Them know.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: They are your child forever, Paul says. And since we
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory. But if
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: we are to share his glory, we must also share
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to the glory He will reveal to us later. For
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: all creation was subjected to God's curse.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: But with eager hope.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: The creation looks forward to the day when it will
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: For we know that all creation has been groaning, as
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: when we believers also grown, even though we have the
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: for we long for our bodies to be released from
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: sin and suffering. We too wait with eager hope for
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: the day when God will give us our full rights
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: promised us.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: We were given this hope when we were saved.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Imagine a barren landscape. Plants struggle to grow, Rains come
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: too rarely or all at once, the sun is too
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: weak or too strong. Animals fight for food and for dominance.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Now picture the landscape transforming. A gentle sun, a gentle rain,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: soil growing rich and soft seeds sprouting in what once
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: was a desert. Trees offering towering shade and nourishing fruit.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: A lion lying peacefully with a lamb enough for everyone.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Families living together in harmony. The cosmos flourishing, every part
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: doing what God created it to do. This is the
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: future glory. God has planned the kingdom of peace and wholeness,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: where the curse is reversed. In the hints of new
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: life and freedom we've experienced in the spirit will come
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: in their fullness. God, we join with all creation and
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: eager expectation of this day when you will bring the
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: full glorious freedom from death and decay. May Your Spirit
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: bring more and more of the first fruits of this
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Kingdom into our lives and our world. Even now, Paul says,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: we don't know what God wants us to pray for,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: but the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: cannot be expressed in words. And the Father, who knows
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: all hearts, knows what the Spirit is saying.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: For.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: God's own will. And we know.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: he gave them his glory. The Holy Spirit praise for
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: you now with the language beyond words. The Holy Spirit
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: praise for God's will to be complete in you, for
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: you to flourish, and the calling God has for you.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that the Spirit intercedes on your behalf.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that God will cause everything to
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: work together for good for those who love Him and
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: are called according to his purpose rest in the assurance
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: that you have been called to join in the sufferings
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: of Christ and also the glory of Christ. Paul goes on,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: what shall we say about such wonderful things as these?
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Since He did not spare even his own son, but
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: gave him up for us all, won't he also give
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: chosen for his own no one, For God himself has
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: given us right standing with himself, Who then will condemn us?
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: No one?
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: For Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: life for us, and he is sitting in the place
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us. Can
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: he no longer loves us? If we have trouble or calamity,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: or are persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or in danger,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: or even threatened with death as the scriptures say, for
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: your sake, we are killed every day, we are being
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: is ours through Christ, who loved us, And I am
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: fears for today, nor our world worries about tomorrow. Not
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Will ever be able to separate us from the love
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: of God that is revealed in Christ.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Jesus, our Lord, gracious and powerful God, thank you for
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: these powerful promises. If you are for us, no one
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: can stand against us. Every accuser will fall. Your spirit
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: intercedes for this child, your son, pleads on this child's behalf,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: and you have promised that nothing can ever separate this
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: child from your love. Your love is not like human love,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: which fails. Your love never fails. Help this child to
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: trust you. Even those suffering and trials will come. Help
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: this child to feel the assurance of the spirit within them,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: letting them.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Know that they are yours forever. God.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it that
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit. In
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: return to your breath, noticing how it moves in and out,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: how it nourishes you. You don't need to try to
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: do anything, just be.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: And just breathe. Paul writes, there is.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: No condemnation for those who belong to Christ. Jesus, and
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: because you belong to Him, the power of the life
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: that leads to death. Breathe this end for those who
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: belong to Jesus and out there is no condemnation. Breathe
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: in for those who belong to Jesus and out there
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: is no condemnation. God, Thank you for the forgiveness and
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: reconciliation you have given us through Christ. Thank you that
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: no one can bring a charge against this child. Your
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: children are free and clean in Jesus, with nothing to fear.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Thank You for giving us the spirit to help us
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: walk in newness of life. Let your child hear and
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: believe these words tonight. May these words lead them into
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: rest that is deep and nourishing and sweet, renew them
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: as they trust in you. We ask this in Jesus name.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: life in peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for life.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: And peace.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Paul says, you have not received a spirit that makes
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: adopted you as his own children. Now we call him
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Ah a father, for his spirit joins with our spirit
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: to affirm that we are God's children. Picture yourself as
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: a child with a good father. Your father doesn't want
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: you to live in fear. Your father doesn't want you
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: to keep working endlessly hard to please him. Your father
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't treat you like a cog in a machine or
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: a servant to do his bidding. Your father chose you,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: and he runs after you. Your father treasures you and
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: delights in you. Your father forgives you time after time,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: and nothing you can do changes the way he feels
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: about you. He's not a distant father to you. He's
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: your dad, the one who always loves you and will
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: never disown you. Other God, thank you for adopting this
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: child to be your child. Your beloved child, and for
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: giving them your spirit. May your spirit speak to them
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: now and let them feel your tender love. May your
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: spirits speak comfort to them and let them know they
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: are your child forever, Paul says. And since we are
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: we are heirs of God's glory.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: But if we are to share.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: His glory, we must also share his suffering. Yet what
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: his children really are. Against its will, all creation was
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: subjected to God's curse. But with eager hope, the creation
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: looks forward to the day when it will join God's
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: know that all creation has been groaning, as in the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: pains of childbirth, right up to the present time. And
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: we believers also grown, even though we have the Holy
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: we long for our bodies to be released from sin
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: and suffering. We too wait with eager hope for the
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: day when God will give us our full rights as
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: his adopted children, including the new bodies He has promised us.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: We were given this hope when we were saved.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Imagine a barren landscape. Plants struggle to grow, Rains come
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: too rarely or all at once. The sun is too
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: weak or too strong. Animals fight for food and for dominance.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Now picture the landscape transforming. A gentle sun, a gentle rain,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: soil growing rich and soft seeds sprouting in what once
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: was a desert, Trees offering towering shade and nourishing fruit.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: A lion lying.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: Peacefully with a lamb enough for everyone. Families living together
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: in harmony. The cosmos flourishing, every part doing what God
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: created it to do. This is the future glory. God
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: has planned the kingdom of peace and wholeness, where the
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: curse is reversed. In the hints of new life and
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: freedom we've experienced in the spirit will come in their fullness. God,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: we join with all creation and eager expectation of this
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: day when you will bring the full glorious freedom from
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: death and decay. May Your Spirit bring more and more
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: of the first fruits of this Kingdom into our lives
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: and our world. Even now, Paul says, the Holy Spirit
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: what God wants us to pray for, but the Holy
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: in words. And the Father, who knows all hearts, knows
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: what the Spirit is saying.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: For.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: God's own will. And we know.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. In having chosen them, he called them
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: he gave them his glory. The Holy Spirit praise for
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: you now with language beyond words. The Holy Spirit praise
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: for God's will to be complete in you, for you
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: to flourish, and the calling God has for you. Rest
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: in the assurance that the Spirit intercedes on your behalf.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that God will cause everything to
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: work together for good, for those who love him and
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: are called according to His purpose.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: Rest in the assurance that you have been called.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: To join in the sufferings of Christ and also the
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: glory of Christ. Paul goes on, what shall we say
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: who can ever be against us? Since He did not
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: spare even his own son, but gave him up for
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: us all, won't he also give us everything?
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: Else?
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: own no one, For God himself has given us right
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: standing with himself, Who then will condemn us?
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: No one? For Christ Jesus died for us.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: And was raised to life for us, and he is
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: Pleading for us.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: mean He no longer loves us?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: If we have trouble.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: Or calamy, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: in danger, or even threatened with death, as the scriptures say,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: for your sake, we are killed every day, we are
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: being slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: victory is ours through Christ, who loved us, and I
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ. Jesus,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: our Lord, gracious and powerful God, thank you for these
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: powerful promises. If you are for us, no one can
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: stand against us. Every accuser will fall. Your spirit intercedes
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: for this child, your son, pleads on this child's behalf,
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  Speaker 1: and you have promised that nothing can ever separate this
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  Speaker 1: child from your love. Your love is not like human love,
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  Speaker 1: which fails. Your love never fails. Help this child to
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: trust you. Even those suffering and trials will come. Help
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: this child to feel the assurance of the spirit within them,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: letting them know that they are yours forever.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: God.
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  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it, that
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful kingdom.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: To earth and the power of the Spirit of the Father.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Son and Holy Spirit.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: Return to your breath, noticing how it moves in and out,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: how it nourishes you. You don't need to try to
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: do anything, just be.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: And just breathe.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Paul writes, there is no condemnation for those who belong
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: to Christ Jesus, and because you belong to him, the
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: power of the life giving Spirit has freed you from
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: the power of sin that leads to death.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Breathe this in.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: For those who belong to Jesus and out there is
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: no condemnation. Breathe in for those who belong to Jesus
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: and out there is no condemnation.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: God, Thank you.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: For the forgiveness and reconciliation you have given us through Christ.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you that no one can bring a charge against
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: this child. Your children are free and clean in Jesus,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: with nothing to fear. Thank You for giving us the
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: spirit to help us walk in newness of life. Let
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: your child hear and believe these words tonight. May these
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: words lead them into rest that is deep and nourishing
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: and sweet, renew them as they trust in you. We
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: ask this in Jesus' name.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: life in peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for life in peace. Paul says,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: you received God's spirit when he adopted you as his
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: own children. Now we call him Ah a father, for
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: his spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: are God's children. Picture yourself as a child with a
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: good father. Your father doesn't want you to live in fear.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: Your father doesn't want you to keep working endlessly hard
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: to please him. Your father doesn't treat you like a
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: cog in a machine or a servant to do his bidding.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: Your father chose you, and he runs after you. Your
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: father treasures you and delights in you. Your father forgives
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: you time after time, and nothing you can do changes
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: the way he feels about you. He's not a distant
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: father to you. He's your dad, the one who always
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: loves you and will never disown you. Father, God, thank
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: you for adopting this child to be your child, your
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: beloved child, and forgiving them your spirit. May your spirit
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: speak to them now and let them feel your tender love.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: May your spirits speak comfort to them and let them
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: know they are your child.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: Forever, Paul says. And since we are his children, we
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: are his heirs.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: But if we are to share his glory, we must
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: when God will reveal who his children really are. Against
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. But
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: death and decay. For we know that all creation has
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: been groaning, as in the pains of childbirth, right up
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: to the present time, when we believers also grown, even
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: to be released from sin and suffering. We too wait
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: with eager hope for the day when God will give
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: us our full rights as his adopted children, including the
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: new bodies he has promised us.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: We were given this.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: Hope when we were saved. Imagine a barren landscape. Plants
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: struggle to grow, Rains come too rarely or all at once.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: The sun is too weak or too strong. Animals fight
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: for food and for dominance. Now picture the landscape transforming.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: A gentle sun, a gentle rain, Soil growing rich and
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: soft seeds sprouting in what once was a desert, Trees
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: offering towering shade and nourishing fruit. A lion lying peacefully
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: with a lamb enough for every one. Families living together
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: in harmony, the cosmos flourishing, every part doing what God
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: created it to do. This is the future glory. God
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: has planned the kingdom of peace and wholeness, where the
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: curse is reversed. In the hints of new life and
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: freedom we've experienced in the spirit will come in their fullness. God,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: we join with all creation and eager expectation of this
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: day when you will bring the full glorious freedom.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: From death and decay.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: May Your Spirit bring more and more of the first
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: fruits of this kingdom into our lives and our world.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: Even now.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: Paul says, the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: For example, we don't know what God wants us to
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: pray for, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: who knows all hearts, knows what the Spirit is saying.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: For.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: own will.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: And we know.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them I'm
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: right standing, he gave them his glory. The Holy Spirit
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: praise for you now with the language beyond words. The
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit praise for God's will to be complete in you,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: for you to flourish and the calling God has for you.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that the Spirit intercedes on your behalf.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that God will cause everything to
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: work together for good for those who love Him and
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: are called according to His purpose.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: Rest in the assurance that you have been called.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: To join in the sufferings of Christ and also the
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: glory of Christ. Paul goes on, what shall we say
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: who can ever be against us? Since He did not
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: spare even his own son, but gave him up for
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: us all, won't he also give us everything else? Who
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: no one, For God himself has given us right standing
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: with himself. Who then will condemn us?
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: No one? For Christ Jesus died for us.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: And was raised to life for us, and he is
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: Pleading for us.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: mean He no longer loves us?
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: If we have trouble.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: Or calamity, or are persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: in danger, or even threatened with death, as the scriptures say,
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: for your sake, we are killed every day, We are
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: being slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: victory is ours through Christ who loved us, and I
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be able.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: To separate us from the love of God that is
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: revealed in Christ.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: Jesus, our Lord, gracious and powerful God, Thank you for
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: these powerful promises.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: If you are for.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: Us, no one can stand against us. Every accuser will fall.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: Your spirit intercedes for this child, your son, pleads on
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: this child's behalf, and you have promised that nothing can
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: ever separate this child from your love. Your love is
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: not like human love, which fails. Your love never fails.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: Help this child to trust you, even though suffering trials
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: will come. Help this child to feel the assurance of
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: the spirit within them, letting them know that they are
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: yours forever.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: God.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it, that
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit. In
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: As we begin, take a deep breath and exhaling slowly.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: Settle in here.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: It's time to abide in God's peace. It's time to rest,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: with the Holy Spirit guiding us in prayer and with
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: the words of the Apostle Paul from romans At guiding
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: our hearts and minds into peace. Before we begin, take
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: a moment to get comfortable.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: They're just the lights. If you need.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: To stretch out or curl up and let the days,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: worries and work drift away, they will still be there
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and God will give you what you need every day.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Now is the time to accept God's gift of rest.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: So let your head sink softly into your pillow. You
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: are a child of God and your Father is watching
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: over you as you sleep tonight. Imagine God singing over
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: you a lullaby that leaves you feeling safe like a
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: child and their parents loving arms. Feel yourself wrapped up
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: secretly in God's never ending love. If you're stressed, release
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: your stress to God. If you're worried, let those worries go.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: Allow your heart to open. Bring your thoughts and your
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: feelings to God. Whatever they are, God can hold them.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: Breathe in God's peace and breathe out your worries. God
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: is with you now. God is watching over you, and
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: God will work all things together for good for those
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: who love Him, and nothing can separate you from His love.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: You can lie down.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: And sleep in peace.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: Let's pray, Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your holy
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: Spirit to be with your child tonight as they sleep,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: To pray for them, to comfort them, to assure them
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: of your everlasting love. Thank you that whatever trials we face,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: and whatever sins we commit, we can be sure that
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: nothing can separate us from your love. We praise you
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: for the power of your love and the promise of
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: your freedom. Tonight, Please bless this child with the gift
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: of sleep. Soothe their heart, quiet their mind, bring relaxation
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: to their body. Let these words from the Apostle Paul
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: and Romans Hate guide them into all comfort. May these
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: words sink deep into their mind and spirit, even.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: As they rest.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: May they be planted deeply in their soul to bear
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: fruit in the coming days. I ask this in the
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: name of Jesus. Return to your breath, noticing how it
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: moves in and out, how it nourishes you. You don't
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: need to try to do anything, Just be.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 4: And just breathe.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: Paul writes, there is no condemnation for those who belong
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: to Christ. Jesus, and because you belong to Him, the
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: power of the life giving Spirit has freed you from
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: the power of sin that leads to death. Breathe this
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: in for those who belong to Jesus and out there
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: is no condemnation. Breathe in for those who belong to Jesus,
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: and out there is no condemnation.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: God, Thank you.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: For the forgiveness and reconciliation you have given us through Christ.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you that no one can bring a charge against
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: this child. Your children are free and clean in Jesus,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: with nothing to fear. Thank You for giving us the
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: spirit to help us walk in newness of life. Let
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: your child hear and believe these words tonight. May these
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: words lead them into rest that is deep and nourishing
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: and sweet. Renew them as they trust in You. We
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: ask this in Jesus' name.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: life in peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for life.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: Paul says, you have not received a spirit that makes
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: adopted you as his own children. Now we call him
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: Ah a father, for his spirit joins with our spirit
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: to affirm that we are God's children. Picture yourself as
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: a child with a good father. Your father doesn't want
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: you to live in fear, doesn't want you to keep
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: working endlessly hard to please him. Your father doesn't treat
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: you like a cog and a machine or a servant
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: to do his bidding. Your father chose you, and he
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: runs after you. Your father treasures you and delights in you.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: Your father forgives you time after time, and nothing you
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: can do changes the way he feels about you. He's
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: not a distant father to you. He's your dad, the
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: one who always loves you and will never disown you. Father, God,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: thank you for adopting this child to be your child,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: your beloved child, and forgiving them your spirit. May your
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: spirit speak to them now, and let them feel your
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: tender love. May your spirits speak comfort to them and
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: let them know they are your child forever, Paul says.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: And since we are his children, we are his heirs.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: But if we are to share his glory, we must
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: when God will reveal who his children really are. Against
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: But with eager.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: Hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: For we know that all creation has been groaning, as
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: And we believers also grown, even though we have the
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: for we long for our bodies to be released from
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: sin and suffering. We too wait with eager hope for
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: the day when God will give us our full rights
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: as his adopted children, including the new bodies He has
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: Imagine a barren landscape. Plants struggle to grow, Rains come
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: too rarely or all at once. The sun is too
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: weak or too strong. Animals fight for food and for dominance.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: Now picture the landscape transforming. A gentle sun, a gentle rain,
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: soil growing rich and soft seeds sprouting in what once
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: was a desert. Trees offering towering shade and nourishing fruit.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: A lion lying peacefully with a lamb enough for everyone,
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: Families living together in harmony, the cosmos flourishing, every part
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: doing what God created it to do. This is the
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: future glory. God has planned the kingdom of peace and wholeness,
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: where the curse is reversed. In the hints of new
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: life and freedom we've experienced in the spirit will come
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: in their fullness. God, we join with all creation and
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: eager expectation of this day when you will bring the
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: full glorious freedom from death and decay. May Your Spirit
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: bring more and more of the first fruits of this
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: Kingdom into our lives and our world. Even now, Paul says,
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example,
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: we don't know what God wants us to pray for,
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: cannot be express rest in words. And the Father, who
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: knows all hearts, knows what the Spirit is saying.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: For.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: own will.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: And we know.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: Gave them his glory.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit praise for you now with the language
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: beyond words. The Holy Spirit praise for God's will to
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: be complete in you, for you to flourish and the
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: calling God has for you. Rest in the assurance that
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: the Spirit intercedes on your behalf. Rest in the assurance
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: that God will cause everything to work together for good
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: for those who love Him and are called according to
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: His purpose. Rest in the assurance that you have been
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: called to join in the sufferings of Christ and also
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: the glory of Christ. Paul goes on, what shall we
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: say about such wonderful things as these? If God is
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: for us, who can ever be against us? Since He
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: did not spare even his own son, but gave him
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: up for us all, won't he also give us everything else?
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: own no one, for God himself has given us right
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: standing with himself, Who then will condemn us?
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 2: No one? For Christ Jesus died for us.
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: And was raised to life for us, and he is
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love?
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: Does it mean he no longer loves us?
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 2: If we have trouble.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: Or calamity, or are persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: in danger, or even threatened with death as the scriptures say,
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: for your sake, we are killed every day, we are
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: being slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: victory is ours through Christ, who loved us, And I
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be able.
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 2: To separate us from the love of God.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: That is revealed in Christ. Jesus, our Lord, gracious and
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: powerful God, thank you for these powerful promises. If you
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: are for us, no one can stand against us. Every
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: accuser will fall. Your spirit intercedes for this child, your son,
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: pleads on this child's behalf, and you have promised that
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: nothing can ever separate this child from your love. Your
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: love is not like human love, which fails. Your love
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: never fails. Help this child to trust you. Even those
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: suffering and trials will come. Help this child to feel
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: the assurance of the spirit within them, letting them know
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: that they are yours forever.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: God.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made,
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 2: In it.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: That they may join in the work of bringing your
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: peaceful kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: return to your breath, noticing how it moves in and out,
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: how it nourishes you. You don't need to try to
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: do anything, just be.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 4: And just breathe.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: Paul writes, there is no condemnation for those who belong
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: to Christ Jesus, and because you belong to Him, the
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: power of the life giving Spirit has freed you from
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: the power of sin that leads to death.
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 2: Breathe this in.
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: For those those who belong to Jesus and out there
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: is no condemnation. Breathe in for those who belong to
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: Jesus and out there is no condemnation. God, Thank you
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: for the forgiveness and reconciliation you have given us through Christ.
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you that no one can bring a charge against
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: this child. Your children are free and clean in Jesus,
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: with nothing to fear. Thank You for giving us the
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: spirit to help us walk in newness of life. Let
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: your child hear and believe these words tonight. May these
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: words lead them into rest that is deep and nourishing
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: and sweet. Renew them as they trust in you. We
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: ask this in Jesus name.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: life and peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for life.
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 2: And peace.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: Paul says, you have not received a spirit that makes
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: adopted you as his own children. Now we call him
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: ahb a father, for his spirit joins with our spirit
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: to affirm that we are God's children.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 2: Picture yourself as.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: A child with a good father. Your father doesn't want
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: you to live in fear. Your father doesn't want you
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: to keep working endlessly hard to please him. Your father
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: doesn't treat you like a cog and a machine or
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: a servant to do his bidding. Your father chose you,
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: and he runs after you. Your father treasures you and
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: delights in you. Your father forgives you time after time,
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: and nothing you can do changes the way he feels
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: about you. He's not a distant father to you. He's
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: your dad, the one who always loves you and will
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: never disown you. Father, God, thank you for adopting this
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: child to be your child, Your beloved child, and forgiving
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: them your spirit. May your spirit speak to them now
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: and let them feel your tender love. May your spirits
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: speak comfort to them and let them know they are
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: your child forever, Paul says.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 2: And since we are his children, we are his heirs.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: But if we are to share his glory, we must
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: when God will reveal who his children really are. Against
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 3: But with eager hope.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: The creation looks forward to the day when it will
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: For we know that all creation has been groaning, as
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: And we believers also grown, even though we have the
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: for we long for our bodies to be released from
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: sin and suffering. We too wait with eager hope for
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: the day when God will give us our full rights
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: Imagine a barren landscape. Plants struggle to grow, Rains come
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: too rarely or all at once. The sun is too
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: weak or too strong. Animals fight for food and for dominance.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: Now picture the landscape transforming. A gentle sun, a gentle rain,
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: soil growing rich and soft seeds sprouting in what once
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: was a desert. Trees offering towering shade and nourishing fruit.
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 2: A lion lying peacefully with a lamb.
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: Enough for everyone, Families living together in harmony, the cosmos flourishing,
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: every part doing what God created it to do. This
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: is the future glory. God has planned the kingdom of
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: peace and wholeness, where the curse has reversed. In the
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: hints of new life and freedom we've experienced in the
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: spirit will come in their fullness. God, we join with
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: all creation and eager expectation of this day when you
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: will bring the full glorious freedom from death and decay.
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: May Your Spirit bring more and more of the first
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: fruits of this Kingdom into our lives and our world.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 2: Even now, Paul says.
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example,
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: we don't know what God wants us to pray for,
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: but the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: cannot be expressed in words. And the Father, who knows
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: all hearts, knows what the say Spirit is saying. For
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: own will.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 2: And we know.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing,
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: he gave them his glory. The Holy Spirit praise for
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: you now with language beyond words. The Holy Spirit praise
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: for God's will to be complete in you, for you
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: to flourish and the calling God has for you. Rest
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: in the assurance that the Spirit intercedes on your behalf.
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that God will cause everything to
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: work together for good for those who love Him. And
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: are called according to his purpose. Rest in the assurance
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: that you have been called to join in the sufferings
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: of Christ and also the glory of Christ. Paul goes on,
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: what shall we say about such wonderful things as these?
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 2: If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: Since He did not spare even his own son, but
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: gave him up for us, all, won't.
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 2: He also give us everything else?
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: own no one, For God himself has given us right
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: standing with himself, Who then will condemn us?
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: No one?
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: For Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: life for us, and he is sitting in the place
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: of honor at God's right hand.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 2: Pleading for us.
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: mean he no longer loves us?
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 2: If we have trouble.
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: Or calamity, or are persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: in danger, or even threatened with death, as the scriptures say,
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: for your sake, we are killed every day, we are
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: being slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: victory is ours through Christ, who loved us, and I
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: us from the love of God revealed in Christ. Jesus,
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: our Lord, gracious and powerful God, thank you for these
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: powerful promises. If you are for us, no one can
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: stand against us. Every accuser will fall. Your spirit intercedes
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: for this child, your son, pleads on this child's behalf,
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: and you have promised that nothing can ever separate this
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: child from your love. Your love is not like human love,
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: which fails. Your love never fails. Help this child to
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: trust you. Even those suffering and trials will come. Help
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: this child to feel the assurance of the spirit within them,
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: letting them know that they are yours forever. God, I
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: ask now that you will be with your child as
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it, that
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit. In
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen,
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: return to your breath, noticing how it moves in and out,
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: how it nourishes you. You don't need to try to
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: do anything, just be.
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 4: And just breathe.
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: Paul writes, there is no condemnation for those who belong
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: to Christ Jesus, and because you belong to him, the
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: power of the life giving Spirit has freed you from
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: the power of sin that leads to death.
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 2: Breathe this in.
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: For those who belong to Jesus and out there is
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: no condemnation. Breathe in for those who belong to Jesus
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: and out there is no condemnation.
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 2: God, Thank you.
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: For the forgiveness and reconciliation you have given us through Christ.
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you that no one can bring a charge against
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: this child. Your children are free and clean in Jesus,
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: with nothing to fear. Thank You for giving us the
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: spirit to help help us walk in newness of life.
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: Let your child hear and believe these words tonight. May
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: these words lead them into rest that is deep and
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: nourishing and sweet. Renew them as they trust in you.
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: We ask this in Jesus name.
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: life and peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for life.
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 2: And peace.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: Paul says, you have not received a spirit that makes
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: adopted you as his own children. Now we call him
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: Ah a father, for his spirit joins with our spirit
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: to affirm that we are God's children. Picture yourself as
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: a child with a good father. Your father doesn't want
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: you to live in fear. Your father doesn't want you
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: to keep working endlessly hard to please him. Your father
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't treat you like a cog in a machine or
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: a servant to do his bidding. Your father chose you,
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: and he runs after you. Your father treasures you and
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: delights in you. Your father forgives you time after time,
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: and nothing you can do changes the way he feels
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: about you. He's not a distant father to you. He's
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: your dad, the one who always loves you and will
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: never disown you. Father, God, thank you for adopting this
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: child to be your child, your beloved child, and forgiving
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: them your spirit. May your spirit speak to them now
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: and let them feel your tender love. May your spirits
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: speak comfort to them, let them know they are your
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: child forever, Paul says.
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 2: And since we are his children, we are his heirs.
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory.
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: But if we are to share his glory, we must
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later.
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: when God will reveal who his children really are. Against
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse.
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 3: But with eager hope.
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: The creation looks forward to the day when it will
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: For we know that all creation has been groaning, as
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time.
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: And we believers also grown, even though we have the
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: for we long for our bodies to be released from
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: sin and suffering. We too wait with eager hope for
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: the day when God will give us our full rights
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: as his adopted children, including the new bodies He has
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: promised us.
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 2: We were given this.
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: Hope when we were saved. Imagine a barren landscape. Plants
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: struggle to grow, Rains come too rarely or all at once.
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: The sun is too weak or too strong. Animals fight
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: for food and for dominance. Now picture the landscape transforming.
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: A gentle sun, a gentle rain, soil growing rich.
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 2: And soft.
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: Seeds sprouting in what once was a desert. Trees offering
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: towering shade and nourishing fruit. A lion lying peacefully with
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: a lamb enough for everyone. Families living together in harmony,
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: the cosmos flourishing, every part doing what God created it
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: to do. This is the future glory. God has planned
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: a kingdom of peace and wholeness where the curse is reversed.
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: In the hints of new life and freedom we've experienced
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: in the spirit will come in their fullness. God, we
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: join with all creation and eager expectation of this day
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: when you will bring the full glorious freedom from death
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: and decay. May Your Spirit bring more and more of
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: the first fruits of this kingdom into our lives and
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: our world, even now, Paul says, the Holy Spirit helps
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: us in our weakness. For example, we don't know what
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: God wants us to pray for, but the Holy Spirit
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: And the Father, who knows all hearts, knows what the
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: Spirit is saying.
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 2: For.
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: own will.
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 2: And we know.
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing,
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: he gave them his glory. The Holy Spirit prays for
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: you now with language be beyond words. The Holy Spirit
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 1: praise for God's will to be complete in you, for
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: you to flourish and the calling God has for you.
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that the Spirit intercedes on your behalf.
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that God will cause everything to
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: work together for good for those who love him and
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: are called according to His purpose. Rest in the assurance
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: that you have been called to join in the sufferings
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: of Christ and also the glory of Christ. Paul goes on,
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 1: what shall we say about such wonderful things as these?
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: Since He did not spare even his own son, but
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: gave him up for us, all, won't.
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 2: He also give us everything? Else?
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: own no one, For God himself has given us right
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: standing with himself, Who then will condemn us?
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 2: No one? For Christ Jesus died for us.
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: And was raised to life for us, and he is
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand,
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 1: pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love?
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: Does it mean He no longer loves us? If we
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute,
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: or in danger, or even threatened with death, as the
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: scriptures say, for your sake, we are killed every day,
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: we are being slaughtered like sheep. No all these things,
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us and
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: neither our fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow.
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 1: Not even the powers of hell can separate us from
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: God's love. No power in the sky above or in
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: the earth below. Indeed, nothing in all creation will ever
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: be able.
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 2: To separate us from the love of God that is
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 2: revealed in Christ.
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: Jesus, our Lord, gracious and powerful God, thank you for
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: these powerful promises.
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 2: If you are for.
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: Us, no one can stand against us. Every accuser will fall.
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: Your spirit intercedes for this child, your son, pleads on
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: this child's behalf. And you have promised that nothing can
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: ever separate this child from your love. Your love is
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: not like human love, which fails. Your love never fails.
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 1: Help this child to trust you. Even those suffering and
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: trials will come. Help this child to feel the assurance
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: of the spirit within them, letting them know that they
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: are yours forever.
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 2: God.
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made,
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it, that
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit. In
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 1: Return to your breath, noticing how it moves in.
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 2: And out perishes you.
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: You don't need to try to do anything, just be.
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 2: And just breathe.
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 1: Paul writes, there is no condemnation for those who belong
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: to Christ. Jesus, and because you belong to Him, the
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: power of the life giving Spirit has freed you from
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: the power of sin that leads to death. Breathe this
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: end for those who belong to Jesus and out there
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: is no condemnation.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 2: Breathe in.
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: For those who belong to Jesus and out there is
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: no condemnation. God, Thank you for the forgiveness and reconciliation
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: you have given us through Christ. Thank you that no
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: one can bring a charge against this child. Your children
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: are free and clean in Jesus, with nothing to fear.
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 1: Thank You for giving us the spirit to help us
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: walk in newness of life. Let your child hear and
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: believe these words tonight. May these words lead them into
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: rest that is deep and nourishing and sweet, renew them
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: as they trust in you.
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 2: We ask this in Jesus name. Amen.
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: life and peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: your mind now and.
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 2: Ask for life and peace.
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: Paul says, you have not received a spirit that makes
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 1: you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 1: adopted you as his own children. Now we call him
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: Ah a father, for his spirit joins with our spirit
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: to affirm that we are God's children. Picture yourself as
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: a child with a good father. Your father doesn't want
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: you to live in fear. Your father doesn't want you
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: to keep working endlessly hard to please him. Your father
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't treat you like a cog in a machine or
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: a servant to do his bidding. Your father chose you,
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: and he runs after you. Your father treasures you and
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: delights in you. Your father forgives you time after time,
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: and nothing you can do changes the way he feels
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 1: about you. He's not a distant father to you. He's
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: your dad, the one who always loves you and will
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: never disown you. Father, God, thank you for adopting this child.
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: To be your child, your beloved child, and forgiving them
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: your spirit. May your spirit speak to them now and
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: let them feel your tender love. May your spirits speak
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 1: comfort to them and let them know they are your
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: child forever, Paul says. And since we are his children,
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 1: we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ, we
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 1: are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: share his glory, we must also share his suffering. Yet
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: He will reveal to us later. For all creation is
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: waiting eagerly for the that future day when God will
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: reveal who.
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 2: His children really are.
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: Against its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse.
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 3: But with eager hope.
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: The creation looks forward to the day when it will
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: For we know that all creation has been groaning, as
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time.
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: And we believers also grown, even though we have the
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: for we long for our bodies to be released from
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: sin and suffering. We too wait with eager hope for
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: the day when God will give us our full rights
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 1: as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved.
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: Imagine a barren landscape. Plants struggle to grow, Rains come
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: too rarely or all at once. The sun is too
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: weak or too strong. Animals fight for food and for dominance.
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: Now picture the landscape transforms. A gentle sun, a gentle rain,
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: soil growing rich and soft seeds sprouting in what once
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 1: was a desert, Trees offering towering shade and nourishing fruit.
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 1: A lion lying peacefully with a lamb enough for everyone.
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 1: Families living together in harmony, the cosmos flourishing, every part
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: doing what God created it to do. This is the
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: future glory. God has planned the kingdom of peace and wholeness,
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: where the curse is reversed. In the hints of new
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: life and freedom we've experienced in the spirit will come
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: in their fullness. God, we join with all creation and
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 1: eager expectation of this day when you will bring the
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: full glorious freedom from death and decay. May Your Spirit
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: bring more and more of the first fruits of this
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: kingdom into our lives and our world.
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 2: Even now.
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: Paul says, the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness.
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: For example, we don't know what God wants us to
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 1: pray for, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 1: groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father,
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: who knows all hearts, knows what the Spirit is saying.
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 2: For.
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with.
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 2: God's own will. And we know.
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: and he chose them to become like his son, so
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he.
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 2: Gave them his glory.
• 2:45:45
  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit praise for you now with language beyond words.
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit praise for God's will to be complete
• 2:45:55
  Speaker 1: in you, for you to flourish and the calling God
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: has for you. Rest in the assurance that the Spirit
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 1: intercedes on your behalf. Rest in the assurance that God
• 2:46:16
  Speaker 1: will cause everything to work together for good for those
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: who love Him and are called according to His purpose.
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that you have been called to
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 1: join in the sufferings of Christ and also the glory
• 2:46:42
  Speaker 1: of Christ. Paul goes on, what shall we say about
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 1: such wonderful things as these?
• 2:47:23
  Speaker 2: If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: Since He did not spare even his own son, but
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: gave him up for us all, won't.
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 2: He also give us everything? Else?
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: own no one, For God himself has given us right
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: standing with himself, Who then will condemn us?
• 2:47:55
  Speaker 2: No one? For Christ Jesus died for us.
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 1: And was raised to life for us, and he is
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 1: sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand,
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 1: pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love?
• 2:48:19
  Speaker 1: Does it mean He no longer loves us?
• 2:48:21
  Speaker 2: If we have trouble.
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: Or calamity, or are persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: in danger, or even threatened with death, as the scriptures say,
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 1: for your sake, we are killed every day, we are
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: being slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: victory is ours through Christ, who loved us, and I
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: am convince that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 1: fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even
• 2:49:17
  Speaker 1: the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
• 2:49:26
  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 1: us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ. Jesus,
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: our Lord, gracious and powerful God, thank you for these
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 1: powerful promises. If you are for us, no one can
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: stand against us. Every accuser will fall. Your spirit intercedes
• 2:50:06
  Speaker 1: for this child, your son, pleads on this child's behalf,
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: and you have promised that nothing can ever separate this
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 1: child from your love. Your love is not like human love,
• 2:50:25
  Speaker 1: which fails. Your love never fails. Help this child to
• 2:50:33
  Speaker 1: trust you. Even those suffering and trials will come. Help
• 2:50:38
  Speaker 1: this child to feel the assurance of the spirit within them,
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: letting them know that they are yours forever.
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 2: God.
• 2:50:51
  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made,
• 2:51:10
  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it, that
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful
• 2:51:18
  Speaker 1: kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit. In
• 2:51:24
  Speaker 1: the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen,
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: return to your breath, noticing how it moves in and out,
• 2:51:48
  Speaker 1: how it nourishes you. You don't need to try to
• 2:51:53
  Speaker 1: do anything, just be and just breathe. Paul writes, there
• 2:52:06
  Speaker 1: is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ. Jesus,
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: and because you belong to him, the power of the
• 2:52:14
  Speaker 1: life giving Spirit has freed you from the power of
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: sin that leads to death.
• 2:52:25
  Speaker 2: Breathe this end.
• 2:52:28
  Speaker 1: For those who belong to Jesus and out there is
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: no condemnation. Breathe in for those who belong to Jesus
• 2:52:41
  Speaker 1: and out there is no condemnation.
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 2: God, Thank you.
• 2:53:17
  Speaker 1: For the forgiveness and reconciliation you have given us through Christ.
• 2:53:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you that no one can bring a charge against
• 2:53:26
  Speaker 1: this child. Your children are free and clean in Jesus,
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: with nothing to fear. Thank you for giving us the
• 2:53:37
  Speaker 1: spirit to help us walk in newness of life. Let
• 2:53:43
  Speaker 1: your child hear and believe these words tonight. May these
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 1: words lead them into rest that is deep and nourishing
• 2:53:54
  Speaker 1: and sweet, renew them as they trust in you. We
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 1: ask this in Jesus name.
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: Paul says, letting the spirit control your mind leads to
• 2:54:12
  Speaker 1: life in peace. So let the Holy Spirit dwell in
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: your mind now and ask for life.
• 2:54:26
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: Paul says, you have not received a spirit that makes
• 2:54:39
  Speaker 1: you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's spirit when he
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 1: adopted you as his own children. Now we call him
• 2:54:51
  Speaker 1: Ah a father, for his spirit joins with our spirit
• 2:54:58
  Speaker 1: to affirm that we are God's children. Picture yourself as
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: a child with a good father. Your father doesn't want
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: you to live in fear. Your father doesn't want you
• 2:55:21
  Speaker 1: to keep working endlessly hard to please him. Your father
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't treat you like a cog in a machine or
• 2:55:32
  Speaker 1: a servant to do his bidding. Your father chose you,
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 1: and he runs after you. Your father treasures you and
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 1: delights in you. Your father forgives you time after time,
• 2:55:51
  Speaker 1: and nothing you can do changes the way he feels
• 2:55:54
  Speaker 1: about you. He's not a distant father to you. He's
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 1: your dad, the one who always loves you and will
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 1: never disown you. Father God, thank you for adopting this
• 2:56:18
  Speaker 1: child to be your child, your beloved child, and forgiving
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: them your spirit. May your spirit speak to them now
• 2:56:30
  Speaker 1: and let them feel your tender love. May your spirits
• 2:56:36
  Speaker 1: speak comfort to them and let them know they are
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: your child forever, Paul says. And since we are his children,
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 1: we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ, we
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 1: are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 1: share his glory, we must also share his suffering. Yet
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 1: what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: He will reveal to us later. For all creation is
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 1: who his children really are. Against its will, all creation
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: was subjected to God's curse.
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 3: But with eager hope.
• 2:58:07
  Speaker 1: The creation looks forward to the day when it will
• 2:58:10
  Speaker 1: join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: For we know that all creation has been groaning, as
• 2:58:23
  Speaker 1: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time.
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: And we believers also grown, even though we have the
• 2:58:35
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,
• 2:58:40
  Speaker 1: For we long for our bodies to be released from
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 1: sin and suffering. We too wait with eager hope for
• 2:58:52
  Speaker 1: the day when God will give us our full rights
• 2:58:57
  Speaker 1: as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 1: promised us.
• 2:59:05
  Speaker 2: We were given this hope when we were saved.
• 2:59:16
  Speaker 1: Imagine a barren landscape. Plants struggle to grow, Rains come
• 2:59:26
  Speaker 1: too rarely or all at once, the sun is too
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: weak or too strong. Animals fight for food and for dominance.
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 1: Now picture the landscape transforming. A gentle sun, a gentle rain,
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 1: soil growing rich.
• 3:00:00
  Speaker 2: And soft.
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 1: Seeds sprouting in what once was a desert. Trees offering
• 3:00:10
  Speaker 1: towering shade and nourishing fruit. A lion lying peacefully with
• 3:00:21
  Speaker 1: a lamb enough for everyone, Families living together in harmony.
• 3:00:29
  Speaker 1: The cosmos flourishing, every part doing what God created it
• 3:00:36
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 2: This is the future glory. God has planned.
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 1: The kingdom of peace and wholeness, where the curse is
• 3:00:51
  Speaker 1: reversed in the hints of new life and freedom we've
• 3:00:56
  Speaker 1: experienced in the spirit will come and their fullness. God,
• 3:01:06
  Speaker 1: we join with all creation and eager expectation of this
• 3:01:10
  Speaker 1: day when you will bring the full glorious freedom from
• 3:01:16
  Speaker 1: death and decay. May Your Spirit bring more and more
• 3:01:23
  Speaker 1: of the first fruits of this kingdom into our lives
• 3:01:28
  Speaker 1: and our world even now, Paul says, the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: what God wants us to pray for, but the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed
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  Speaker 1: in words. And the Father, who knows all hearts, knows
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  Speaker 1: what the Spirit is saying.
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  Speaker 2: For.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's
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  Speaker 1: own will.
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  Speaker 2: And we know.
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  Speaker 1: That God causes everything to work together for the good
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  Speaker 1: of those who love God and are called according to
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  Speaker 1: His purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance,
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  Speaker 1: and he chows them to become like his son, so
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  Speaker 1: that his son would be the first born among many
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them
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  Speaker 1: to come to him. And having called them, he gave
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  Speaker 1: them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing,
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  Speaker 1: he gave them his glory. The Holy Spirit praise for
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  Speaker 1: you now with the language beyond words. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: praise for God's will to be complete in you, for
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  Speaker 1: you to flourish and the calling God has for you.
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  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that the Spirit intercedes on your behalf.
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  Speaker 1: Rest in the assurance that God will cause everything to
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  Speaker 1: work together for good. For those who love him and
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  Speaker 1: are called according to His purpose. Rest in the assurance
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  Speaker 1: that you have been called to join in the sufferings
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  Speaker 1: of Christ and also the glory of Christ. Paul goes on,
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  Speaker 1: what shall we say about such wonderful things as these?
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  Speaker 1: If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
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  Speaker 1: Since He did not spare even his own son, but
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  Speaker 1: gave him up for us all, won't he also give
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  Speaker 1: us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has
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  Speaker 1: chosen for his own no one? For God himself has
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  Speaker 1: given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us?
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  Speaker 2: No one? For Christ Jesus died for us.
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  Speaker 1: And was raised to life for us, and he is
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand.
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  Speaker 2: For us.
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  Speaker 1: Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it
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  Speaker 1: mean he no longer loves us?
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  Speaker 2: If we have trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Or calamity, or are persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or
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  Speaker 1: in danger, or even threatened with death. There's the scriptures say,
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  Speaker 1: for your sake, we are killed every day, we are
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  Speaker 1: being slaughtered like sheep. No, despite all these things, overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: victory is ours through Christ who loved us. And I
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  Speaker 1: am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.
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  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons. There are
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  Speaker 1: fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow. Not even
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  Speaker 1: the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
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  Speaker 1: No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: nothing in all creation will ever be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to separate us from the love of God that
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  Speaker 2: is revealed in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, our Lord, gracious and powerful God, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: these powerful promises. If you are for us, no one
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  Speaker 1: can stand against us. Every accuser will fall. Your spirit
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  Speaker 1: intercedes for this child, your son, pleads on this child's behalf,
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  Speaker 1: and you have promised that nothing can ever separate this
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  Speaker 1: child from your love. Your love is not like human love,
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  Speaker 1: which fails. Your love never fails. Help this child to
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  Speaker 1: trust you. Even those suffering and trials will come. Help
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  Speaker 1: this child to feel the assurance of the spirit within them,
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  Speaker 1: letting them know that they are yours forever.
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  Speaker 2: God.
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  Speaker 1: I ask now that you will be with your child
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  Speaker 1: as they sleep through this night. Please give them peaceful dreams,
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  Speaker 1: restore their mind and their spirit, and wake them in
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  Speaker 1: the morning to a new day that you have made,
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  Speaker 1: that they may rejoice and be glad in it, that
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  Speaker 1: they may join in the work of bringing your peaceful
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  Speaker 1: kingdom to earth and the power of the Spirit, in
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Father, Son.
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  Speaker 2: And Holy Spirit. Amen.