As much as being a parable to help us understand the joy of
God the Father when we return to him, no matter how far away we have been, it also provides a model for fathers and mothers, and all who are responsible for others.
Not exact matches
I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah
when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995
when had lost my
father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my
father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging
God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in
God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that
God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my
father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and
when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
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When my
father hurls curses and abuse at me, I will hear them painfully in one ear, but I ask you to walk on my other side, and whisper
God's favor into my other ear.
Gary,
when are you going to learn, no man can represent
God, Only His Spirit can represent Himself in and through man, Jesus ascended to be with our
Father, then He sent down His Holy Spirit for them that
Father gave to Him: I do not represent
GOD, it is His Spirit in and through man that represents Himself, To
GOD be all the GLORY: Man get's none!!!
At a time
when there are more women and children crying out for rescue than ever before,
God has placed within the DNA of every man a
father, a defender and a protector.
God is nearest to us
when we're broken and have come to the end ouf ourselves... Then He says to us,
when your mother and your
father forsake you, I the Lord will lift you up..
So as Chirstians
when we ask Mormons if they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, that they believe Jesus died and rose again on the third day to take away our sins and they say yes, they are not saying that they believe by confessing this that they automatically will live in the mansion where
God the
Father and Jesus Christ are and
when they acknowledge our faith they don't believe that we will automatically be there based only on the blood of Jesus alone either.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on
God and His truth; yet, that can only come
when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is
when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with
God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on
God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and
when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our
Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you
Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
All who were in the Bible spoke in and by the Holy Spirit in boldness
when it came time for them to minister the Word, even as it is with me, also to bring forth my testimony as a witness: I can not fellowship with unbeliever's because all they do is cause division, and Christ is not divided: Therefore; remain as you are: This is the third time I have come to you, and you rejected me for the Word of
God: Many did not even know that Jesus spoke the Word of
God through Holy Spirit, so how is it that you are to know unless it be given to you to know: My
God is Just and He is right, He knows the hearts of man are wicked and have turned from Him: Thank - you all, there are some that did get it: Thank - you
Father in Jesus name Alexandria:
It was fortold to Jesus in the agony in garden, it is also fortold in his conversation with Simon Peter
when jesus said «get back Satan, do you not understand that the son of
god must fulfill the wishes of the
father.»
God the
Father turned His face away from His Son
when He suffered on the cross (which was the worst type of death, reserved for the worst sinners in those days),
when Jesus carried the curse of all of mankinds sins (past, present and future) and wrath of
God because of those sins.
Exodus 12:12 states that there are other
gods, while the rest of the bible makes the claim that there is only one: http://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-oneness-unity-one-god.htm Third, the bible claims that only the
father knows
when the second coming of jesus would happen.
Matthew 27:25 - 26 (NIV) Indeed, Jesus was flogged by men which
when we read again what
God stated in the prophecy in 2 Sam 7:14: «I will be his
father, and he will be my son.
When my
father passed away, my boss in a sympathy card said that
God shows His love for us in the people He gives us to love.
Impossible
when the first person born already believed and accept
God as their
father and Creator.
The sixth thing I don't know,
when a child did He tell His playmates He was the son of
God, not his
father?
The Book of Hosea in the OT reveals this same Divine perspective that Jesus» testimony about his
Father reveals, a
God of Unconditional Love & Mercy who always keeps his covenant with us even
when we fail fulfill our obligations to
God.
If I thought it was
God who killed my
father when I was twelve, and some of my best friends before I was 20, if it was
God who had people kidnap me, slander me, threaten to kill me, and turn loved ones against me, then I would have a hard time trusting
God, if He was like that.
When the early church
fathers spoke of
God's apatheia (often translated «impassability»), what they had in mind was
God's constancy, reliability, and complete sovereignty over everything that exists outside of himself.
When we hear that Abraham is «the
father to us all» in Rom 4:16 - 17, we are not saying he is
God.
My argument wouldn't be that I am offended so much... but that the oath becomes meaningless
when it must be attached to bearded
father figure sky
god that will punish me for breaking the oath.
God will be calling him back home, I just hope he responds to our
Fathers call
when the time comes.
You seem to imply that with the emptying
God the
Father ceased to exist and that
when «it was finished,» the Son ceased to exist.
Jesus was with
God in the beginning
when God said, Let us make... Jesus is the second person of the Godhead which we call the Holy Trinity being the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit» Please look up the following Scriptures: John 1:3, Romans 11:36, 1 Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:15 - 16.
He notes that the very last verse of the Old Testament (Malachi 4:6) looks forward to a time «before the great and terrible day of the Lord»
when God «will turn the hearts of
fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their
fathers.»
(John 1:18)
God's «only - begotten Son» Jesus Christ (John 3:16) explained details of his
Father, Jehovah
God,
when he walked the earth.
So if you have a triune
god who is
father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the human manifestation of
father / son
god — then Mary is arguably the mother of
god and in that way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history of the transformation of the triune
god in heaven to the triune
god on earth and of course the few days
when the triune
god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.
I appreciate ur grace based article but hope to understand Heb 12 disciplinary action by the
Father when / if
God gets angry with sin... any insight?
I also chose to be known as
Father Wil
when I became a priest so that the male priests and I would have the same title — which in that church they also used for
God.
Only
when what we offer — bread and wine — is connected with what the priest offers to the
Father after the consecration, namely the Body and Blood of Christ, can we truly say that this is our offering to
God.3
For me it was
when I was told this by my
father who wanted me to forgo the surgery to remove my cancer tumor because if I had faith, I would know
God had already removed it.
When we commit violence and then blame it on
God, we are following the example of our
father, the devil, who was a liar and murderer from the beginning.
As has happened so often in the history of the Church, it is
when something is attacked (in this instance male / female marriage, a male priesthood, the notion of
God as a
Father, to name just three things routinely savaged) that deeper insights are perceived and richer truths revealed.
When he heard that I was a priest he laughed and said, «Gee,
Father, I hope you didn't think this was a play about
God.»
The
God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the
God of our
fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate,
when he was determined to let him go.
One of the desert
fathers tells us, «To my mind there is no labour so great as prayer to
God: for
when one wishes to pray to
God, the hostile demons make haste to interrupt the prayer, knowing that their sole hindrance is in this, a prayer poured out to
God... Prayer is the burden of a mighty conflict to one's last breath.»
To think that my patient, kind, and tender
father who loves
God and people more than anyone I know, served as a supportive deacon to these scumbags, and began to question his own observations
when they put their spin on the situations... SICKENS ME.
The problem with the Peter comment is that Peter didn't have the holy spirit cause Christ hadn't died he was still there Christ had to die to give us the spirit if u go ahead a little bit to
when Peter is delivered up and asked if he knows Christ he says he does because the spirit can not deny itself because they are all 3 one and if you don't believe in the Trinity then you don't believe in
God 1 John 5:7 says For there are three that bear record in heaven, the
father, the word, and the holy ghost: and these three are one.
In any case,
when Paul said that we should give thanks «always and for everything... in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to
God the
Father,» he was not lapsing into pollyannaisms.
«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the
Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male...
God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of
God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and
when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a
Father, that the
Father -
God was invented
when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate
when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
Say what you will, everyone, and have your fun if that is what you really want, but the time will come
when every single person will bow down to the King of Kings and declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the
Father!
and I praise
god for all the abuse and suffering that I went through because that made my faith in him only stronger because in all my suffering, let see: loosing my mother
when I was 2, sexual abuse from my
father, beatings from my stepmother and
father, homelessness, hunger, one bad marriage of 10 years with am alcoholic and abusive husband, cancer, removal of thyroid due to cancer, now I have auto ammume disease, financial loses.
I believe that
when I die, if I've given them enough of my power through prayer to help keep them immortal, then one day, maybe I'll rewarded with an eternal home at the foot of Mt Olympus, where I can be close to the
father of other
gods, Zeus, and all the medium and lower
gods.
Paul — who of course antedates Mark — takes his departure from an earlier type of doctrine, according to which Jesus was no doubt the Christ during his earthly life, but secretly; his «glory» he laid aside, temporarily,
when he became man, and he resumed it
when raised from the dead «by the glory of
God the
Father; (Rom.
When God pursues genocide against the Canaanites in one place and is the
God and
Father of Jesus, Prince of Peace, in another then we have a problem.
The subsequent centuries have witnessed endless conflict over the Christian cultus, but one element in the long development of Biblical experience and thought concerning fellowship with
God has remained as the common and unifying gain of all — «Thou,
when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy
Father who is in secret.»
So
when the Synod
Fathers gather in Rome to discuss marriage and the family, they are not dealing with human arrangements, but with participation in
God's plan and
God's love.
In
God, the Creator -
Father, and in Christ, the revelation of the divine character, the first Christians fervently believed, but all this became inward and empowering only
when the Spirit entered and possessed them.
When writing elsewhere about living in community she said: «The Community of the Trinity is simply the Community of Love:
God the
Father loving
God the Son, and this love bringing forth the Holy Spirit.