Thursday, October 4, 2007

Romans Bible Study

My guys small group is going through Romans this fall for our study. This week we looked at the beginning of chapter 2 and had some great talking about what it means to be a verse 7 man rather than a verse 8 man.
7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
In the end we talked about how we start our days. Do we give them to Christ from the time we wake-up, or is he an afterthought sometime during English or history class. So we decided to start our days with prayer this week. To pray that we will be about God's glory, honor, and immortality, rather than our own, each day. Along those lines, here was the Celtic prayer for the 4th day of the month:

PRAYER OF ABANDONMENT TO GOD

Father, I abandon myself into Your hands. Do with me what You will, whatever You do, I will thank You, I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only Your will be done in me, as in all Your creatures, and I'll ask nothing else, my Lord.
Into Your hands I commend my spirit;
I give it to You with all the love of my heart, for I love You, Lord, and so need to give myself, to surrender myself into Your hands with a trust beyond all measure, because You are my Father.

I think I'll be praying that prayer each morning for a while for myself and for each of those guys.

2 comments:

Dan Luebcke said...

Good stuff bro. Pastor Nelson is going through Romans on Sunday mornings. We've got some great small group material on our site (www.sgc.org) that our small group leaders are using.

For what it's worth!

Love that your walking through ROMANS!

C Blasdel said...

your warm your momma's heart. Love to hear what you are teaching. What a great prayer for all of us.