NOTES:

Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world.9 God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart[d] by spreading the Good News about his Son.

10 One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to see you. 11 For I long to visit you so I can bring you some spiritual gift that will help you grow strong in the Lord. 12 When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.

13 I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters,[e] that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see spiritual fruit, just as I have seen among other Gentiles.14 For I have a great sense of obligation to people in both the civilized world and the rest of the world,[f] to the educated and uneducated alike.15 So I am eager to come to you in Rome, too, to preach the Good News.

Romans 1:8-15 (NLT)

Grace doesn’t just bring you in. Grace sends you out!

GRATITUDE. 

PRAYER.

MISSION.

Bottom Line:  “When the gospel defines who you are, it determines what you do.”