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Let me begin with a question; is there wind in your sails? Are you in a place of spiritual doldrums? God wants you to have life and have it to the full. Help is on the way.
One of Paul’s greatest desires was to visit Rome. He wanted to impart spiritual gifts to the church there. Rome was the center of the empire and he knew that if the church could grow strong at Rome it could influence the entire empire for the gospel.
Paul understood the power of the gospel; he was familiar with its power to transform. He had been a missionary of the gospel for many years, had endured many hardships, and had been part of many revivals.
Paul wanted to impart spiritual gifts because he knew the power of the Holy Spirit is what they needed most.
When Paul arrived in Ephesus on his second missionary journey, he found some disciples there and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said in response, “No, we haven’t even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
Many today have certainly heard that there is a Holy Spirit but they have not experienced His power to transform their lives and bring the spiritual victory God desires. Without the Holy Spirit, there is no wind in the sails and what then are you then left with? self-effort.
Many people find themselves in the spiritual doldrums. In the days of sailing ships, doldrums were extremely dangerous. At the equator, the winds could disappear altogether. With no wind in the sails, ships could languish for weeks with disastrous consequences. They could try rowing, but such self-effort was futile. Without wind, there was no hope.
The same is true spiritually. The Holy Spirit is the breath of God, the power that moves your life to victory. The word ‘spirit’ in the Greek literally means ‘wind.’
John 3:8, “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Wind is powerful, it can destroy a city, it can snap trees like twigs, but it can also generate power for an entire city and can move a large ship across the ocean.
Acts 1:8, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
I. Our Father Helps His Children
 All who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God, Paul said earlier in this chapter. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Romans 8:15, For you have not received the spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
 If we are God’s children, then we are heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ. This is a key to faith. Paul builds to a crescendo when he says, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” We need this truth written on our heart so that it becomes the foundation of faith.
Illus - Of the six children we raised, three were adopted and I wanted all of them to know that if they were ever in trouble, call dad. “I’m for you, I will be with you. Even if you mess up your life, I’m for you.”
 Paul says the sufferings of the present time - the suffering that comes as a follower of Christ in a broken and evil world - are nothing when compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us.
 Then, over and over, Paul speaks of the groaning that comes with suffering; it’s part of living in a broken and evil world.
 But this is also where our Father helps us.
John 14:16-17, “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is, the Spirit of truth… You know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
 In Romans 8, we receive some of the deepest, most practical insights in how the Spirit helps us.

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