QUESTION ONE: Rom 8:31a (NIV) What, then, shall we say in response to this? It is vital that you allow these seven questions to produce a complete and total faith in God. As you answer each question, it must be a confession with your mouth that you accept the truth of the question. And then, believe in your heart that the answer to that question is something that is true of you. Will you answer this and the rest of the questions from what you know and believe? Will you open your mouth and give the answer is being the truth straight from God? Will you confess with your mouth that you know these questions are representing the truth? What, then, shall YOU say in response to this?

QUESTION TWO: Rom 8:31b (NIV) If God is for us, who can be against us? What is your response to the “if” in this question? Are you ready to accept your responsibility to make it into a “SINCE?” Are you ready to say with your mouth, SINCE God is for us, who can be against us? NOW, are you ready to answer the question with your mouth and believe it in your heart? Are you ready to read this over and over again and pray that it will take a complete hold on your mind and heart? Are you willing to allow God to convince you that SINCE He is for you, NO ONE AND NOTHING can be against you? Is that what your mouth is saying all day long, moment by moment and issue by issue. If it isn’t then you will need to pray and ask Jesus to help you talk this way and believe this way all day long.

QUESTION THREE: Rom 8:32 (NIV) He Who did NOT spare His own Son, but gave Him up FOR US ALL--how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things? Are you ready to accept the fact that since God did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, He isn’t going to withhold anything good from you? Can you see that Jesus dying in your place proves a lot about Jesus and your heavenly Father’s love? Are you ready to be convinced that if it is something good for you and those around you, God will graciously give you all things? Are you ready to live based on this truth so that it changes the way you think and feel all day long?

QUESTION FOUR: Rom 8:33 (NIV) Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God Who justifies. Are you ready to only listen to the corrections, instructions, rebukes, disciplines, and charges that God makes? Are you ready to take all complements, criticisms, instructions, and opinions of others to God for His evaluation? Are you ready to base the decisions of your life, all day long, on what God approves of? If someone’s charges are threatening your job, your relationships, your wellbeing, or your evaluation of yourself, will you only go with God’s evaluation of you?

QUESTION FIVE: Rom 8:34 (NIV) Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, Who died--more than that, Who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Do you want to remain a Christian? Have you done something that seems to indicate that you have caused yourself to lose your salvation? Do you want to lose your salvation? Are you ready to accept the fact that you have to WANT to be separated from God in order to lose your relationship? No matter how much you have messed up, are you willing to go to Jesus and ask Him to bring you before God. Will you ask Him to intercede for you and get His forgiveness? Are you willing to repent (make a U-turn mentally and physically) and ask Jesus for His power to get you headed in the right direction?

QUESTION SIX: Rom 8:35a (NIV) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Are you willing to pray and ask Jesus to help you resist any criticism, persecution, isolation, or abuse anyone or group brings against you? People have to try to convince you; Satan has to try to tempt you; they can even try to force you; but, you have to give into them. You decide whether their efforts will be yielded to by you. Are you willing to keep your eyes on Jesus to help you be able to handle all satanic and human efforts to make you give up on Jesus?

QUESTION SEVEN: Rom 8:35b (NIV) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? Are you willing to reject any notion that the reason you are going through all of the bad circumstances is because God is failing, neglecting, abusing, or ignoring you? Are you willing to ask Jesus to help you through hardships, so you can come out of them with a greater faith in God and His love? Are you willing to refuse to believe that you have done something that has caused God to reject you and turn you over to all these hardships? Are you willing to believe that these things would have happened to you anyway; you just had to decide whether you were going to go through them with Jesus or without Him?

Rom 8:36 (NIV) As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” You could have died from cold, heat, drowning, poison, stabbing, being shot, falling, being suffocated, bitten by a snake or spider, attacked by a vicious animal, had a wreck in a vehicle, had something fall on you, got some deadly disease, and a multitude of other things. You could have died in your mother’s womb, died on the way down the birth canal, or died right after birth; but, you didn’t. How have you lived so long since there are so many ways you could have died? The answer is, God!

The thing we have to always consider is, if God hadn’t protected us for all these years, surely something would have killed us by now. Plus, we wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for God causing us to exist. Only God can take such a vulnerable being who is surrounded by so many deadly dangers and keep them alive. It is important for us to realize it hasn’t been luck, karma, fate, or our good fortune that we RANDOMLY HAPPENED to escape all these dangers. God has kept you alive so as to give you TIME to become one of His children. Now it is time for you to show your appreciation and learn how to grow up and be a mature child of God. Let’s take a look at the new you!

Rom 8:37 (NIV) No, in all these things we are MORE than conquerors through Him Who loved us. You have been a very limited, vulnerable, endangered human that lacked ALL supernatural abilities all your life. Then in a moment of time you prayed Matthew 6:9-13 and obeyed Romans 10:8-10 and BECAME a CHILD OF GOD! BUT, you were a NEW born again child of God. You have all the equipment; it is just small, untrained, unskilled, and inexperienced. However, with all those lacks, you ARE a CHILD OF GOD. You ARE no longer JUST a human; you became a being who has the genetics of God flowing in and through your spirit. NOW, YOU ARE MORE than conquerors through Him Who loved you. That is what all these studies are all about; Jesus wants to use them to help you take advantage of who you have become.

Rom 8:38-39 (NIV) FOR I AM CONVINCED that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Up until now, you have been only led into confessing with your mouth and believing in your heart each thing you encounter in the Bible. We will gradually introduce you into Six Biblical Principles that expand your confession with your mouth and belief in your heart. Let’s take a quick look at them; but, don’t try to change into them. Keep using your mouth and heart as your main approach to the Bible.

How do you get CONVINCED? You must DESIRE to be convinced; you must keep on STUDYING on how to be convinced; you must PRAY and ask Jesus to empower you to be convinced; you must ask Jesus to give you His faith so you can BELIEVE He has MADE you convinced; you must LOVE others enough that you want them to be convinced as well; and, you must take FAITH-ACTION on the basis of the fact that Jesus has made you to be convinced. These SIX things will take you from where you are in the spirit realm to where you need to go. BUT, you will be led into these six things automatically as Jesus takes you through these studies.