Sentences with phrase «god accomplishes his purpose»

This analysis results in insights regarding how God accomplishes his purpose through people who make both wise and unwise choices.

Not exact matches

Truth be told If God can use Cyrus to accomplish the purpose for the chosen ones then Obama is also a great tool.

If there is a God then it must be assumed God knows how to accomplish His purpose.

No, according to Christian theology God determines and acts by the counsel of his own will, independent of human thought or input, and for the sole reason of accomplishing His divine purpose.

Church buildings can be used in wonderful ways to accomplish the mission and purposes of God on earth.

All of the suffering, inconvenience, and discomfort caused by the decree of Caesar was actually the loving hand of God working things out to accomplish His purposes in His own way.

(Ex 3:15) Thus, God gave himself the name Jehovah, for he becomes whatever he needs to be to fully accomplish his purpose, and of which transforming the earth into a paradise is at the «top of the list».

Election is God choosing some to accomplish His mission and purpose in the world, for the benefit of all.

That arrogant emperor was only a puppet, a tool, in the hand of God to accomplish his purposes.

The Old Testament prophets were familiar with trials and tribulation, and how God used these things in life to accomplish his purposes.

Sometimes, God chooses unregenerate people (such as Pharaoh, Cyrus, and Judas) to accomplish His purposes.

In other words, God did not create the Sabbath to rule over the lives of mankind, but created the Sabbath to serve mankind, to help mankind accomplish our mission and purpose on earth.

«Having just come through a divisive national election, I am urging pastors across this country to lead their congregations in praying daily for our president, Barack Obama... for wisdom, Divine guidance, and that God would accomplish His will and purposes,» Graham said in a statement.

• Epistemology or knowledge: God has revealed, through Scripture, that males and females share dominion, leadership and authority in accomplishing the purposes for which they were created as individuals.

«to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the Called - Out Ones of Christ to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord».

But there is great salvation in proclaiming that God in Christ has accomplished the purpose for which man was made, and through which his weakness and failure, his sin and shame, are overcome.

But the sense of the sacraments as sign - acts through which God acts here and now to accomplish his own purposes seems strangely absent in most baptisms and celebrations of the Lords Supper.

But God has specialy reserved it all for this age, so that His Word, and His purposes would be accomplished.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.

God is accomplishing a purpose there, although there is no reason to assume that there is an inevitable, almost automatic, progress going on.

Doubtless the Bible tells of many miracles, but the basic point of each story is that God is the living God who works to accomplish the divine purposes.

In it, I explore the idea that prayer meetings, as beneficial and important as they are, might actually hinder the church from fulling the Great Commission and accomplishing our task of advancing God's purposes on earth.

It is one of Satan's goals to make God's word look rediculous, he accomplishes his purpose through false teachers of the Bible, and false scientist.

Cod has shown throughout the centuries, in the Bible stories and in church history, that God can accomplish God's purposes despite all the human weaknesses and foolishness that stand in the way.

[3] God can do the impossible, but He only does it when it accomplishes His purposes.

The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort — Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 529f.13

If a sermon does not have this as one of its purposes and accomplish this as one of its consequences, then somehow it has not been the authentic proclamation of God's disclosing and delivering action in the event of Jesus Christ.

Jehu, however, is a man who interposes himself while pretending to be accomplishing the purpose of God.

As the lie of anxiety began to creep up, I settled in my heart that regardless of who won, God could use them to accomplish His purpose and to unfold His plan.

The over-arching purpose in awakening repentance, establishing commitment, and requiring God's service in the world, may be accomplished through a number of what I may style sub-purposes.»

That shows that God is incredibly sovereign to accomplish his purposes in this sinful world no matter what happens.

Being the elect of God means that God has chosen us to accomplish his purposes in this world.

They believed that since there was no other elect people in the world, that God would never judge them, would never send his wrath upon them, because if He did, He would not be able to accomplish His purposes in the world.

God does not cause all things — but He does work in all things — even evil — so that good may result and His purposes may be accomplished.

Ellul plunges even deeper into the mystery of how God's purposes are accomplished through human agency.

He wants so badly to make this a story that includes a conversion experience, a story about God using sinful people to accomplish His purposes, a story about a sexually promiscuous woman who finds Jesus, that he reads too much into the text.

This pattern reflects one of the most common narratives throughout scripture — that of God using humans to be his hands and feet in accomplishing his purposes in this world.

What this means is that if you want to be chosen, if you want to picked, if you want to be on God's team so that you can play in the game of life and accomplish God's plan and purposes for this world, you do not have to wonder whether or not God has chosen you.

The lines can not be sharply drawn, however: one could not believe that God had accomplished so much in and through Jesus and had exalted him to so supreme a status without soon asking, «What then was the essential nature of this Jesus that he can have become the agent of God's redemptive purpose?»

A few years ago, God laid a question on my heart that drove several years of study and wrestling — the question was, «What is the purpose of God's wrath; what does God intend to accomplish through his wrath?»

Recognize that whether it is the result of sin or not, God can use this loss to accomplish His good purposes for your life.

People have so misinterpreted the bible to believe that God has to wipe out his children to accomplish his purpose.

They were called and gathered by God from the world to accomplish a specific purpose and task.

Whitehead himself was quite explicit about cosmology: «The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.

If God is really actively engaged with and in the world, adapting the divine intention to it, taking into the divine life what occurs there, and hence seriously affected by it quite as much as sustaining it creatively and working within it to accomplish an enduring purpose, then indeed God must be understood in a fashion that is most suitably symbolized by what we know of relationship at the human level — granted, of course, that we say this with an O altitudo, to use Sir Thomas Browne's phrase.

And it is the omnipotence of the love which is so resolved that it is able to accomplish its purpose... This is the God as he stands upon the earth, like unto the humblest by the power of his omnipotent love.15

If we are questioning the potential canon of scripture being used I will again refer to God's use of Sinful, corrupt man throughout the entirety of the Bible in accomplishing his ultimate purposes.

I know that many elders and churchgoers don't like the idea of their building becoming an office complex or dance club, but from God's perspective, is the building really accomplishing its purpose by sitting empty six days of the week, or being a place that Christians dump thousands and millions of dollars into every year just so they can have a place to talk about the Bible?

Look at the life of Joseph as an example... (Genesis 50:20) God used Joseph, and his suffering circu.mstances to accomplish His own sovereign purposes.

If there is a God He would be big enough to accomplish His purpose anyway He sees fit.