Gracious Father, I thank you for your goodness and your faithfulness and your love.

I thank you for that glorious word from the Apostle Paul.

He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all,

how shall he not with him freely give us all things

every blessing every hill every green every blue every yellow every relationship every material

gift was bought for us by the blood of Jesus if we are his child.

And so I thank you for Christ.

And I pray now that what is taught from Romans 9 would be faithful to what you intended.

And I pray that it would produce greater hope for ourselves and for the lost that we love.

I pray that it would produce greater praise for your glorious grace.

I pray that it would produce greater stability and firmness of hope and faith in times of great

uncertainty on earth and upheaval and dread and suffering.

And so I pray that it would release mercy in our lives to be a kind of people that the world doesn't simply regard as having right-wing views on morality,

which we do, but rather would view as people laying down their lives for suffering people

at home and in the most pained places in the world.

So let Romans 9 to 11 produce a kind of people, Lord,

that would cause others to worship you.

In Jesus' name, I pray.

Amen.

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