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1. What to Remember When You're Having a Bad Hair Day

Romans 8:28

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James Merritt

... thinking "Well, I'm not a child of God, and everything is working out for me." I submit to you that ultimately if you die, and spend eternity without God, things really didn't work out for you. Now the second word is "know." Paul says "and we know that all things work together for good." There are a lot of things about God, the Bible, and life, we don't know. Paul tells us in v.26 we don't always know how to pray. We don't know what Jesus looks like. We don't know exactly when He is coming back ...

2. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

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Robert G. Tuttle

... are beginning to find their own way home to God, why can’t the rest of us turn from an empty path and find ourselves at home again in God who is like Christ and who is the center of reality? It is only then that "all things work together for good." I believe, with George Bernard Shaw, "that if spiritual power could be harnassed to material power, man would be transformed into a higher order of being." But this marriage of the spiritual and the material would have to have the proper alignment. If the ...

3. Pop Verses: Romans 8:28

Romans 8:28

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Charley Reeb

... our pain, he not only helps us carry our pain, he not only helps us get through it, but helps us to be more than conquerors! How is that possible? How can we more than conquer our pain, difficulty and adversity? Here is the answer: We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. –Romans 8:28 This means that suffering and tragedy is never God’s will but God can take what is ugly in our lives and make it beautiful. That is what makes us more ...

4. Turning Evil Into Good

Genesis 45:1-8a, 50:19-20

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J. Howard Olds

... with his brothers he makes this statement concerning their acts of evil. “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good." Will you reflect with me on that statement for a moment? I. YOU INTENDED TO HARM ME When I first believed that “all things worked together for good," I was extremely naïve concerning the nature of evil. While my family of origin was far from perfect, I was safe there, protected from the evil one and seldom acquainted with grief. There were no TV's in those days to disturb ...

5. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

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Harold Warlick

... of the New Testament is the ultimate triumph of goodness. The resurrection is the triumph of a design for life that is upheld as the fundamental principle of the universe even if the world tries to crucify it. Consequently, Saint Paul could affirm, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His dream" (Romans 8:28). Here Paul is not saying that we all get to live the life of our dreams. A lot of things happen to us that are not good. We ...

6. Destined To Have A Great Year

Ephesians 1:1-14

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King Duncan

... . I really don't know anyone who can. I can only say that I choose to believe with St. Paul that God has "destined us to be his sons [and daughters] through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will . . . ." I choose to believe that all things work together for good for those who love God. I choose to believe along with Corrie ten Boom that though we can only see the tangled, confused underside of life, God is weaving a beautiful pattern that will only be revealed to us in another realm, in another ...

7. Effective Suffering

Romans 8:26-39

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Jeff Wedge

... course of God's greater plan is really a misunderstanding of what it means to have an all-powerful, all-knowing, loving God. There is no good reason that explains why such a God would punish his people. There is plenty of bad news about that verse, "All things work together for good." But there is also good news. The bad things that happen to people are really a result of our own sinfulness. But the good news in the midst of our suffering, in the midst of all the things that result from our sinfulness, as ...

8. This Is Water

John 7:25-44

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Ron Lavin

... and at times we felt our relationship with God was lost. Our prayers seemed so useless at times. This family talked to a pastor who said: Let me tell you what has helped me all of my life. I refer to Romans 8:28: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose." The pastor and the family prayed together. A light was provided for a dark situation. The family began putting the pieces of their lives together by the help of God. When it ...

9. The Downside Of The Practice -- Performance Equation

Romans 8:28-39

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Robert R. Kopp

... 'm going to heaven. That's not so bad." When we're faced with life's bad bounces, it helps to look at the cross. The cross was the precursor to total victory. Every cross in a Christian's life is a precursor to total victory. Again, "We know that all things work together for good for those who love God." Or as a little card on my desk says, "When you think you haven't got a prayer, He's there!" I guess there really isn't a downside to faith. Golfers say, "A bad day of golf is better than any day ...

10. Engaging the Master Designer

Psalm 139: 1-18

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J. Howard Olds

... , struggling, and weak. As a couple of us were planning this little get together, I pulled my yearbook off the shelf and read again something I had written as a life motto forty years ago. It was a quote from Romans 8:28 KJV, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” I am glad I went far enough in seminary to learn a better translation of that verse. “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who ...

11. It Came To Pass

Job 42:1-6

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Zan W. Holmes

... for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28). This does not mean that all things automatically work together for good in every situation for everybody. It means that all things work together for good for those who love God! Because to love God is to cooperate with God in our times of trouble. Job suffered with God but repented and ended up cooperating with God's plan to start Job's life over. After all the suffering and grief he experienced, Job ...

12. Catholic

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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William G. Carter

... Not the accomplishment or the arrogance of humanity, but the rule of God over all life. The apostle Paul could testify to this. He wrote a letter to a church in Rome, full of people he had never met. And he declared on the largest possible screen, “All things work together for God for those who love God.” It was meant to be. God’s will is predestined. The kingdom is going to happen. It grows with us or without us. The good seed sprouts up in receptive soil. The good crop lasts among the weeds. Like an ...

13. A Man Whose Dreams Came True

Genesis 37:1-11

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R. Blaine Detrick

... will and use it to fulfill his will? Truly, the Lord maketh even the wrath of men to praise him. (See Psalm 76:10.) The doctrine of divine providence teaches that the hand of the Almighty is working in each and every experience of your life. "All things work together for good, to them that love God" (Romans 8:28). Paul wrote these words, but Joseph - centuries before - was aware of the same truth. When you love God, when you are true to your dreams, when you loyally seek to serve the Lord of creation. when ...

14. An Attitude of Gratitude

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

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David E. Leininger

... that our thanks should go on for the same length of time. Be clear about one thing though: our scripture lesson does not tell us to give thanks FOR everything but IN everything, just as God's word does not say, "All things ARE good," but that "All things work together FOR good." I am certain that Martin Rinkert did not feel called upon to thank God for the Thirty-Years-War, but the words of his hymn, "Who wondrous things hath done/In whom his world rejoices," surely indicate that even in the midst of such a ...

15. We Are Weak, But He Is Strong...

Romans 8:26-39

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. [27] And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. [28] We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. [29] For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family. [30] And ...

16. A Blast from the Past

Deuteronomy 6:20-25

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James Merritt

... of God's providence in her life. God had reached down with His mighty Hand and delivered Israel from the clutches of the most powerful nation on earth. You can explain the providence of God in one single verse in the Bible—Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." I can look back in my own life and see so many ways how God's providence has operated in my life. If God had not called me to the ministry, I ...

17. Once More with Feeling!

Luke 17:11-19

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Stephen M. Crotts

... . Those who refuse to praise God and live with thanks during difficult times will grow bitter and pessimistic. But those who live thankfully will open themselves up to God's blessing. He can put their faith where it will be seen. Others can be blessed. All things work together for good. If our recipe for a happy Thanksgiving is going to be complete we have to have some thanksliving. Do you have any? Is there some problem or setback or pain that you are willing to praise God for, and thank him for bringing ...

18. A Working God

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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R. Kevin Mohr

... one of us and claim the name of Christ as his Lord, and, in fact, was a member of a congregation of my own church denomination! How do we come to terms with tragedies like that and these words of the apostle Paul in Romans 8: “We know that all things work together for good [or as it can be translated, we know that in all things God works together for good] for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose”? Out of our silence, struck dumb by the evil at work around us and in us, the Spirit ...

19. Repairing Your Broken Dreams

Luke 24:13-35

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Harold Warlick

... claim of the New Testament is the ultimate triumph of goodness. The resurrection is the triumph of a design for life that is upheld as the fundamental principle of the universe even if the world tries to crucify it. Consequently, Paul could affirm, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his dream (Romans 8:2)." Here Paul is not saying that we all get to live the life of our dreams. A lot of things happen to us that are not good. We ...

20. Dealing with T-A-R-E-ists

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

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R. Kevin Mohr

... be in the judging business or in the business of destroying that which works against God. The owner of the “farm,” God himself, will make it all come out right in the end, as the apostle Paul reminds us in Romans, chapter 8, “we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.” We can trust in that promise because in the cross and the resurrection Jesus Christ died and lived out the meaning of this parable. Hanging on the cross, he did not ...

21. The One Who Came Still Comes; The One Who Spoke Still Speaks

Mark 11:1-11

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Michael Milton

... to you, my beloved. He employs human beings and circumstances to come into your life. The Scriptures are clear. You did not choose me, but I chose you… (John 15:16, NIV). And that golden text for the Christian life: And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). I think of Paul who is in prison in Rome, and it would seem to us that the gospel would never be able to go forth. But Paul would write, I want you to ...

22. Final Destination

Psalm 23:6

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James Merritt

... for your good. No matter what bad or evil comes our way, if the Lord is our Shepherd goodness will come out of whatever happens. This simply tells us in Old Testament language what Rom. 8:28 tells us in New Testament language. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Remember, this is a shepherd song. This is a psalm of how a shepherd leads his sheep. Now we have learned that the shepherd in this psalm is the Savior ...

23. Struggling with God

Genesis 32:22-32

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David E. Leininger

... give up. The survival of our rascally hero Jacob may offer some consolation and encouragement. Hang in long enough, and a blessing awaits at the end. Remember those wonderful words of the Apostle Paul in the 8th chapter of Romans:(6) "All things all things work together for good for those who love God"...even the struggles. Then he asks rhetorically, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" The answer is NOBODY. Not some river demon, not some double-crossed uncle, not even a potentially murderous brother ...

24. Get a Life!

2 Timothy 1:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... Locally." Christians are not called to be the patron saints of lost causes, but neither are they to confine their dreams and schemes to the realm of the already known, the already proven or the already accomplished. Keep in harmony with the day: If "all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28), then we should be able to maintain a certain degree of harmonic resonance between our souls and our circumstances. The world and everything in it is ...

25. Claiming Hope

Matthew 3:1-12

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James L. Killen

... for in life, much like a child making a list of things she wants for Christmas. Then these people assume that, by prayer, they can mobilize God to make this list happen. It is much better to approach life as the apostle Paul did, confident that "all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28). We should all approach life in expectancy and openness, eager to see what God will do in our lives. John warned the people who came to hear him that ...

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