Romans 12:3–16
- Read along with us this weekWeekly Emphasis: We belong to one body in Christ, and we belong to one another. This week, we ask God to help us walk in humility, honor one another's gifts, serve faithfully, and demonstrate genuine love. As we surrender pride and comparison, we make room for compassion, healing, and unity.
"By God's grace, we will walk in humility, serve with faithfulness, and love with sincerity. We belong to Christ, and we belong to one another. We will honor the gifts God has placed among us, rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. We surrender pride, comparison, bitterness, and division to the Lord. We trust Him to heal our hearts and guide our relationships as we walk together in love and unity. In Jesus' name, amen."
Theme: Learning to trust God's plan, surrender our lives to Him, and allow Him to transform the way we think.
Theme: Remaining humble, trusting in God's mercy, and remembering that His grace calls us to faithfulness rather than pride; praying with confidence in His power to restore.
Theme: Hearing God's Word and responding in faith; sharing the Good News and resting in His sustaining grace.
Theme: Ceasing human striving, trusting Christ completely, and resting in the righteousness provided by faith.
Theme: Trusting God's purpose even when we don't understand His ways; resting in His sovereign, unearned mercy.
Theme: Carrying the burdens of others with compassion, standing firmly on God's promises, and trusting His sovereign plan.
Theme: The Spirit intercedes in our weakness according to God's will; standing firm as more than conquerors in His unfailing love.
Theme: Daily choice to let God's Spirit direct our actions, living as adopted heirs free from fear with patient expectation.
Theme: Living free from condemnation through the power of the Holy Spirit, embracing life, peace, and resurrection confidence.
Theme: God's Word exposes inner struggles and our need for Christ, overcoming the flesh through daily dependence on the Holy Spirit.
Theme: Release from the power of sin into a life bearing fruit for God, walking daily in holiness and Spirit-empowered obedience.
Theme: Freedom from the power of sin through union with Christ, walking daily in the newness of His resurrection power.
Theme: Trusting His Grace Over Our Own Efforts. Discovering how Christ's sacrifice proves our worth and provides a transformed future.
Theme: Trusting His Grace Over Our Own Efforts. Trusting God's promises even when circumstances seem impossible, anchored in peace and confident hope.
Theme: Trusting His Grace Over Our Own Efforts. Focused on believing that God's promises are certain because they rest entirely on His faithfulness—not our performance.
Theme: Trusting His Grace Over Our Own Efforts. Exploring how Abraham's justification rested on his belief in God rather than outward performance.
Theme: Trusting His Grace Over Our Own Efforts. Focused on how divine solutions triumph over human shortcomings.
Theme: Trusting God When I Feel Weak. Focused on how God remains true even when foundations shake.
Theme: Reflecting on How We Use Our Knowledge of God. Focused on avoiding hypocrisy and surrendering the heart inwardly.
Theme: Exploring personal accountability before God and values of integrity, public and private conscience alignment.
Theme: Examining our own hearts, cultivating repentance out of God's kindness, and learning to persevere in doing good.
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.