Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are picking up with day three of our

If God is for us celebrating the power of God's grace devotional. In the Bible app there's a link

to that in the description of the podcast if you guys want to fall along with us and as always I'm

going to read the scripture then Tori is going to pick up with the Devo. Let's do it. The

scripture is Romans chapter 8 verse 15 and it says this. So you have not received a spirit that

makes you fearful slaves. Instead you received God's spirit when he adopted you as his own children.

Now we call him Abba Father. The devotional is titled God's children. Anytime anytime while I was

a slave if one minute's freedom had been offered to me and I had been told I must die at the end

of that minute I would have taken it just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman I would

Elizabeth Freeman. To the first century church this reminder of freedom from slavery would have

had great significance. Slavery was a daily reality in that culture so people in that day would

instantly understand the analogy of being released from slavery and not falling back into it.

Like Elizabeth Freeman they knew it in their bones that there was a big difference between being a

slave in someone's household and being a free member of the family. We may not witness slavery

on a daily basis anymore but Paul's analogy still holds powerful truth for us. We were once slaves to

our sin but once we're in Christ that is no longer true. We do not have to submit or obey or

entrust ourselves to those old ways. God has made us new and as new creations we have the privilege

of adoption. Now we are not only free but children of the Almighty God and not only children

but beloved children who can relate to our Father intimately. It is no small thing that we can use

the word ABBA as we cry out to our Father. This aromatic word for Father is an intimate term

even somewhat childlike. It can also be translated as papa or daddy. Significantly it is also the name

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