Devotional 13 Study Guide - New Creation Realities (Romans 6-7, 8:1)
Reality number 1: The Cross changes everything!
What does the cross represent for you personally? ___________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
Build an Ebenezer - share two areas that you have experienced freedom in since giving your life to Jesus. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
Where were you when Jesus died on the cross? _____________________________________ Make a list of areas that you are currently battling that died with Jesus on the cross: _________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
Reality number 2: The Old You no longer exists!
Colossians 2:14 says, “having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.” Name an area where you have felt condemned. How does Colossians 2:14 impact your heart? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
Reality number 3: God is in a good mood!
What does it mean to you that God is happy with Jesus? _______________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What does it mean that God is happy with you? ______________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Are you required to perform in order to be loved? _____________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
Reality 4: I will live by TRUTH and not by FEELINGS!
What is God saying about you today? How does God’s voice contradict the lies you believe about yourself? _______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
Weekly Challenge: Meditate upon these words from 1 John 3:1:
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
