What Shall I Render

We need God's justification because righteousness cannot be attained by law-keeping.

God glorifies Himself in His church, because of the great work He has done in Christ to redeem our lives. Even heartaches, weakness, even failures or sins cannot stop Him from being faithful to love us and give us purpose.

The price God paid for us, we could never pay. His redemption of us from the bondage of sin is a great and powerful treasure.

God tells us of the great treasure we have in Christ, so that we are not led astray to value this world over our spiritual treasure!

Ephesians can teach us to treasure what God has given us in Christ above what we see in this world. (cf. Matt 6:19-21)

What we know, expect, and believe about our God is expressed in our prayers.

One of the functions of prayer is to bring us to acknowledge and understand the work of God in His Son, Jesus, our Great High Priest.

Under law, as that which condemns sin, we find only bondage and futility. In order to have freedom and life, we must find and hold to the gospel of Christ and His Promised Spirit for freedom/life (Gal 5, 6).

Jesus can offer us rest (Matt 11:28-30), because He is our Rock, our Refuge, our Salvation. We find and acknowledge to our souls the nature of our God which meets our every need (Psa 62).

Prayer is one way we come to Jesus, and Jesus is the way we get to God. Prayer helps us consider Him above trusting self.