Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray

will be five minutes well spent. So I have a tattoo on my wrist that means a great deal to me,

and it's the topic of the show today, not the tattoo, but the meaning behind it, and more

specifically, the commitment that has nothing really to do with a tattoo,

but is beckoned by Paul in Romans and powerfully left for us to decide if it's also a conviction we'll take on while here on Earth.

Today's show means a lot to me, and we'll get into it right after this.

Thank you. a lot to me, and we'll get into it right after this. Some years ago, I walked into a tattoo shop, and I got Romans 116 tattooed on my wrist,

for I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone

who believes.

It meant a lot to me then and means equally as much to me now because I want everyone to know that I am not ashamed of Jesus.

I identify with him.

He is my life.

He is everything.

His salvation is available to everyone.

And this is the gospel.

So Paul wrote these words as a prelude to his visiting with

the church in Rome to introduce himself, let them know who he was and what he was all about,

and we know from reading Romans, it's quite an introduction. Since Paul's conversion, he has become

quite a bold and outspoken preacher of the gospel, and truly the gospel has become

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