Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. Okay, so now we're back to real time, okay? So, guys, if you've got your Bibles, and I'm sure you do, turn with me to Romans 8 and verse 28 and today as you well know we're

looking at one of the greatest verses in the entire Bible. So I want to begin by just reading the verse and I need to

just open with a word of prayer too. I'm reminding myself so Father as we look

into your word, we pray that the ministry of your

Holy Spirit will teach us, illumine our understanding, enlighten us, and I pray not only will we understand it but that you will apply it to

our lives in the very situations in which we find ourselves.

I thank you for these men who are gathered with me.

I pray your immeasurable blessing would be upon their lives.

And I pray for everyone who's watching around the country and overseas that you would meet with them and attend to their needs in a very specific way.

So we commit this study now into your hands. Ask that your

blessing be upon it. We presume nothing. We trust you in everything. In Christ's name, Amen.

Okay, Romans 828. So let me just begin by reading this very familiar verse, I've entitled this the Triumph of Providence.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good, to those who love God,

to those who are called according to his purpose.

As I've already said, this is without question one of the most beloved verses in the entire Bible.

It would easily make the short list of the five most cherished

verses in all of scripture. This verse has brought comfort to countless troubled hearts in the midst of the most difficult

of life circumstances. We need to know that God is at work, circumstantially, providentially, in every

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