Heart Zone

When you begin to grasp the reality of grace that the Lord has shown to believers, there has to be a decision from Romans 12:1.

When you have made the decision to give yourself to God, there has to be concrete steps taken to express that commitment from Romans 12:2.

The Lord in his wisdom and sovereignty uses the rejection and unbelief of his people to bring about the salvation of many more, while promising their ultimate redemption in the end from Romans 11:25-36.

Only God can take the rejection of one group of people and use it for the salvation of the rest of the world from Romans 11:11-24.

It is easy to be guided by wrong assumptions concerning the Lord and your standing with him and miss the reality of his grace from Romans 11:1-10.

The message of salvation to all requires that there are people who are willing to share it from Romans 10:13-21.

There is a major difference between gaining acceptance with God with your works and gaining it through faith in Jesus Christ from Romans 10:5-12.

It seems unfair that those who try to pursue God’s acceptance on their own terms must face the reality that it only come through faith in Jesus Christ from Romans 9:30-10:4.

While we wrestle with the reality of the Lord’s sovereignty over the affairs of humanity, it is easy to get it wrong about God from Romans 9:19-29.

With the realities of our current struggle and suffering, we need to rest in the hope that our new relationship with God is secure from Romans 8:28-39.

With the realities of our current struggle and suffering, we need to rest in the hope that something better is waiting for us from Romans 8:18-27.

Having been set free by the Spirit, we do not have to live fear and defeat since we have been adopted as the children of God from Romans 8:12-17.

Having been set free by the Spirit, we can now choose to live according to Spirit rather than live according to the sinful desires of our flesh from Romans 8:1-11.

While we have been freed from the bondage to sin, believers still find themselves engaged with an internal struggle against sin from Romans 7:13-25.

While we have been freed from the bondage to sin, believers must recognize that sin still has power to influence them from Romans 7:1-12.

Having been freed from the bondage to sin, believers must choose between continuing to live in freedom or returning to the slavery of sin from Romans 6:15-23.

The reality of grace in salvation and the freedom that it brings to every believer should stir us to live for Christ from Romans 6:12-14.

The reality of grace in salvation should cause us to change our thinking with regards to living in the new life versus living the old life from Romans 6:5-11.

The reality of grace in salvation causes some to develop wrong thinking concerning the issue of sin in our lives from Romans 6:1-4.

It is easy to lose track of the reality that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Yet his resurrection insures our present condition and our future hope from 1 Corinthians 15:20-28.

Even though the Lord is working in our midst, we can completely miss what he is doing. Tragically, Jesus also warns that there are severe consequences for those who totally miss him from Luke 19:35-44.

In order to understand our acceptance with God, we need to understand the free gift that Jesus gave us in order to remove the offense we carry from Romans 5:12-21.

On our own, we had not chance to gain acceptance with God. However, Jesus loved us and died for us from Romans 5:6-11.

God’s acceptance of us means more than just our identification as his children. His acceptance of us results in an immediate change in how that relationship with Christ is expressed from Romans 5:1-5.

In a world where we are used to rules that guide every aspect of our lives, it is hard to grasp that our ability to abide by the rules has no bearing on God’s acceptance of us from Romans 4:13-25.