ROMANS: Week 9 - Stick to the Plan
More Than Togas and Tunics
Kyle Johnson
Part of 2022 Teaching Notes
July 22, 2022

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ROMANS: More Than Togas and Tunics
Week 9 - Stick to the Plan
July 31st, 2022
Pastor Kyle Johnson


It is

to have a

But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. —Romans 15:23-24 (NIV)

Just because you

doesn’t mean it is not

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. —Romans 1:13 (NIV)

Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. —Acts 16:6-7 (NIV)

The more we

into Him the more His become ours

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. —Proverb 19:21 (NIV)

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
—Psalm 37:4 (NIV)

None of that means it is going

as we have

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.
—Romans 15:29 (NIV)

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there. —Romans 15:25 (NIV)

The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.” —Acts 23:11 (NIV)

Three days later he called together the local Jewish leaders. When they had assembled, Paul said to them: “My brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans. —Acts 28:17 (NIV)

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel. As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ. —Philippians 1:12-13 (NIV)

Plans are better

with an open


Notes:


Discussion Questions:

1 – How much of a planner are you? How far out do your plans go?

2 – How do you respond when plans don’t go your way?

3 – Read Psalm 37:4. What does it look like to “delight in the Lord”? How does that affect your plans?

4 – What does it look like for you to make plans but hold them with an open hand?