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My 'Romans 8:22-39' Dream
A letter to Michael about the meaning of my dream: (Thursday, January 24, 2002)
On Tuesday December 11, 2001 I had a dream. I saw my younger brother and his best man holding Bibles and going into a room. I followed them but before I did, (since they were holding Bibles), I went to get mine also. I heard my brother tell us to go to a certain verse in the Bible. I could not hear the verse very clear so I asked my brother again. I asked him if the chapter name started with the letter 'R' I heard him mumble something and also the verses 8:22-39. When I woke up, I run to open my bible to look up on that chapter and verse. First I looked under the name 'Ruth' but it did not have a chapter '8'. Then I looked at 'Romans' and I found the scripture. It ended exactly on verse '39'. I would like to know what was the message God was trying to reveal to me and I am asking you to help explain it to me.
Michaels answer: (Thu 1/24/02 3:42 PM)
Friend,
The Scripture given to you is the deliverance section of Paul's writings. This deliverance is now in progress. You may read the last post behind the "door" on Michael's page. This speaks of this deliverance, as well as the last few days posted. These things written are on My "Thoughts and Reflections."
Below is another version that might be helpful.
Romans 8 Phillips Translation
All who follow the leading of God's Spirit are God's own sons. Nor are you meant to relapse into the old slavish attitude of fear - you have been adopted into the very family circle of God and you can say with a full heart, "Father, my Father. The Spirit himself endorses our inward conviction that we really are the children of God. Think what that means. If we are His children we share His treasures, and all that Christ claims as His will belong to all of us as well. Yes, if we share in His sufferings we shall certainly share in His glory.
In my opinion whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has planned for us. The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight [the revealing] of the sons of God coming into their [His] Own. The world of creation cannot as yet see reality, not because it chooses to be blind, but because in God's purpose it has been so limited - yet it has been given hope. And the hope is that in the end the whole of created life will be rescued from the tyranny of change and decay, and have its share in that magnificent liberty which can only belong to the children of God!
[All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us, it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.] THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
It is plain to anyone with eyes to see that at the present time all created life groans in a sort of universal travail. And it is plain, too, that we who have a foretaste of the Spirit are in a state of painful tension, while we wait for that redemption of our bodies which will mean that at last we have realized our full Sonship in Him.
The Spirit of God not only maintains this hope within us, but helps us in our present limitations, for example, we do not know how to pray worthily as sons of God, but His Spirit within us is actually praying for us in those agonizing longings [our wordless sighs, our aching groans] which never find words. [He knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God..] And God who knows the heart's secrets understands, of course, the Spirit's intention as He prays for those who love God.
Moreover we know that to those who love God, who are called according to His plan, everything that happens fits into a pattern for good. God, in His foreknowledge, chose them to bear the family likeness of His Son, that He might be the eldest of a family of many brothers. He chose them long ago; when the time came He called them, He made them righteous in His sight, and then lifted them to the splendor of life as His own Sons.
In face of all this, what is there left to say? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not grudge His own Son but gave Him up for us all - Can we not trust such a God to give us, with Him, everything else that we can need?
Who would dare to accuse us, whom God has chosen? The judge Himself has declared us free from sin. Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us. Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us!
Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, pain or persecution? Can lack of clothes and food, danger to life and limb, the threat of force of arms? Indeed some of us know the truth of that ancient text:
"For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
No, in all these things we win an overwhelming victory through Him who has proved His love for us.
I have become absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither messenger of Heaven nor monarch of earth, neither what happens today nor what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on high nor a power from below, nor anything else in God's whole world has any power to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord! (Messiah - Michael) Romans 8:14-39 J. B. Phillips translation.
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