Romans 12
Living as an individual
12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, [1] by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
This verse is not all, if we read on to verse 2, as indivual, surrender to God not only the physical, but also in spirit. V2 is our surrender to God in heart and mind.2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern (about the heart) what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Therefore, our first living as a christian is about our total surrender to God, in body, spirit, mind and heart.
Living as a Family Unit
4 For as in one body we have many members, [5] and the members do not all have the same function,
each of us has been given different gifts. It is these gifts that make each of us different and it is these difference that make us complete as a unit for God.
Help me to nature and grow the different gifts in my children and my wife.
Living as a Christian community
10 Love one another with brotherly affection.
The world cannot see Jesus, but they can feel the love in us through them. Our actions, our speech bears the fruit and the tesimony of christ.
Prayers
Lord as an individual, I am a father, the head of my household, the husband of my wife. Lord, I prya for a surrender of self to you. Let my being in God be use as a living scarifice. Let me lead and let my family be a unit that bears the testimony for Christ.
