Romans 1: 8-10 | Womens RD Bible Study

Thank you Father God for this time that we can spend in your Holy Word, the King James Bible. Thank you also that we can learn from the scriptures how believers are to pray today. 

This section of scripture, verses 8-12, is Paul's prayer; we will discuss verses 8-10 today. 

8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

I love how Paul begins by saying that he is THANKFUL to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, for all of the saints in Rome and that their faith in Christ Jesus is now known in the world. As believers we ought to be thankful for fellow believers and we have many other things to be thankful for as well. I have been recording and writing a series of podcasts and blog posts on thankfulness which you might find helpful to your Bible studies and application of sound grace doctrine to your everyday life. Being thankful is part of God's will for us as believers. 

1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJB says, "In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

Paul serves God in the spirit and as a servant of God he is continuously praying for fellow believers. We also should pray for fellow believers often. When we pray and worship God we are to do so in the spirit and in truth. Praying in the spirit means that we have God's spirit in us as believers (unbelievers do not have God's spirit in them so God isn't listening to their prayers) and we should be walking in the Spirit when we pray instead of walking after the flesh. This means to pray about SPIRITUAL matters because God is concerned about the spiritual, our inner man. To pray after the flesh is to be focused on WORLDLY matters. We are also to pray in truth, meaning the truth of God’s Word rightly divided. We pray based upon the sound grace doctrine in Paul's Epistles. 

10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

Paul wants to be with the saints in-person to further help them be established and edified in sound grace doctrine. It would be prosperous if they can be properly established and edified in sound grace doctrine so that Christ is living in and through them as believers. It is God's will that ALL believers be stablished in the grace faith. 

Thank you Father God for teaching us through Paul's Epistles how we can pray for fellow believers. In Jesus name Amen.