Sentences with phrase «god using us for his purposes»

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Upon arriving at the location, Mohrer was waiting for her, sharing with her that he had tracked her using the company's «God View» tool — which was only available to certain executives and to be used for «legitimate business purposes.»

Hardly any of us know what we'll be doing in a few years, let alone in a few decades, so trust that God is using your current situation to give you wisdom and equip you for His purposes.

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

God wants to sanctify our imaginations and use them for His purposes!

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

It's the height of blasphemy to use God for such purposes, yet Jews and Christians do it all the time as if it was second nature.

Phillips says it's true that the Bible teaches Christians to care for the poor, sick and needy, «but the Bible also teaches that God uses and permits suffering in the lives of people for His own ends and purposes.»

kermit4jc If God was just the excuse that the Israelites used to do as they liked, who's to say that they didn't just invent this God character for this precise purpose?

You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...

Using our actual talents for God to achieve his purpose takes actual effort on our behalf.

Had the occasion to spend time with a number of men yesterday, discussing the stages of a man's development — and how God uses pain and wounding as a tool to shape us for his service and purposes.

If by God is meant a conceptual construct used within a certain linguistic frame of reference for the purpose of arousing religious emotions and ethical sentiments, in solemn assemblies, the answer must again be No.

Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to create man in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose of destroying evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.

God can use the Chaldeans for his purposes, or not.

What the world uses, God can turn for His own purposes.

Most so called» religious wars» were nothing more than atheistic leaders trying in vain to use God for there immmoral purposes and had nothing to do with True faith at all.

Some may wish to use it as an historical book; after all, it is a collection of writings bound up together in one volume, telling us of the way in which the Jewish people came by God's self - disclosure to a deeper understanding of the God they worshipped and a more adequate conception of his purpose for his «chosen» race.

The fact that interest in God's idiosyncratic reality and peculiar ways of being present are situated means, in short, that the conceptual growth they guide is always open to the suspicion of being in bad faith, of being more of an interest in using God for our own purposes than an interest in apprehending God for the sake of apprehending God.

In other words, if the church has lost its purpose, the best thing may be for it to give up its facility and let somebody with a purpose use the space for the glory of God in a new congregation.

On the other hand, if the concrete way this school does «have to do with God» is ordered to education for ministerial functions, is it not then in practice using «having to do with God» for a further, ulterior purpose («educating for ministerial functions»), thus corrupting its proper theological character («having to do with God for God's own sake»)?

All this leads me to believe that I am a common vessel to be used for God's purposes to help believers through service and especially financially.

Those who believe in a «purpose» «greater good» or «intelligent design» for a lack of better man made terms, use the verbiage and concept of God.

I tell people that psychics get their information from satan and demonic forces, and prophets get their information from God, not to be used for personal gain but always for a specific purpose.

Christians believe, from the ones I talk to who seem to be true believers and not cultural Christians, that God never desired or planned evil, he just uses the evil man creates for his purposes.

However, just because people have used religion for their own evil purposes doesn't mean God doesn't exist.

This certainly is for the best; nothing could be more splendid, nothing more rewarding, than the confident assurance that we matter to God and that he is both able and willing to use what we have done, and hence what we are, for the further expression of the love which is the divine nature and purpose.

Also, when I discuss «if war is wrong...» by «is wrong» I mean is an act that is evil / sinful / against God's ways (right now I'm using those three all as synonymous for these purposes; though we could discuss the theological distinctions between them, they are generally the same enough when trying to explain what I mean by «is wrong»).

In addition, we can be very comfortable in trusting our current translations (NIV, ESV, NKJV, etc.) that have made use of the wonderful wealth of early manuscripts and textual criticism to bring us texts that provide God's Word in a way that is sufficient and clear for His intended purposes of communication to us.

I also note that most of us use our «religious holiday» for selfish reasons and certainly not for any purpose unto God.

If the Living God can't use the words that come out of as female's mouth (granted that they are law / gospel words and about Jesus) for His purposes... then he really wouldn't be much of a God... but a puny twirpy god that required only certain genitalia to get his work doGod can't use the words that come out of as female's mouth (granted that they are law / gospel words and about Jesus) for His purposes... then he really wouldn't be much of a God... but a puny twirpy god that required only certain genitalia to get his work doGod... but a puny twirpy god that required only certain genitalia to get his work dogod that required only certain genitalia to get his work done.

We do not know what effect such prayers will have, but we do know that all generous prayer is valued by God, and while God always does the best that can be done in every circumstance, we may cherish the thought that God also can use prayer of that kind for furthering the divine purposes for good, though it may be in a way past human comprehension.

The state is punishing her and maybe God is using that for his purposes.

The Bible is like the elements of the sacraments, products that man uses and products that God uses (for His purposes).

He used the power of the Spirit to teach the Word of God for the purpose of making disciples.

Even so, God can continue to use them for God's purposes (Rom.

We must say that God uses war for God's purposes without in any way sanctioning the human participants.

From Israel we have learned to see man as a finite creature whose purpose in life is to serve God by the way he lives his life, cares for his fellows, treats all other forms of life and uses the world.

By using suffering for God's glory and for his purpose, and not just enduring it as helpless victims, we can triumph inwardly through suffering; in us, as in Jesus Christ, the victim can emerge the victor.

Use it for the purpose God intended.

But that doesn't mean that God can't use us for a greater purpose.

As to Paul the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ are terms used interchangeably, so for most purposes and in most contexts the agape and the charis (grace) of God are identical, and both represent the love of God coming to us in Christ.

In the instance of the story of the Paralytic at Capernaum, the evangelists have used the tradition to serve their own purposes, Mark (followed by Luke) as a demonstration of the authority of the Son of God (Mark 2.12), and Matthew as a basis for the Church's authority to forgive sins (Matt.

The only reason God has not already destroyed Lucifer is because he is using Lucifer for a purpose, he is using him to flush out and to separate the goats from the sheep.

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

You probably have a list of scriptures (the same ones I once used) for this purpose, but if you look at them honestly they do not mention the Bible, but rather «the law», writings of «men of old», «the Word of God», «this book», «this prophecy», «the scripture» or other specified or unspecified writing (s)-- NOT ONE says «the Bible» or can be reasonably interpreted to refer to the Protestant or Catholic canon WE moderns mean when we talk about «the Bible».

The bible is used by Christians for the purposes I listed: Knowledge of God and learning God's will concerning our actions (morality).

From time to time (when I can forget about myself — rarely) I don't get a glimpse of how God is using that suffering in my life for a purpose... but this sinner still doesn't care for it.

At the same time, however, God deigns to employ human agents and to use human instruments for the accomplishment of his purpose.

I said: «The bible is used by Christians for the purposes I listed: Knowledge of God and learning God's will concerning our actions (morality).»

It will suffocate us from breathing in that breath of fresh air that God would want to give to us, to be freed up to say «Here I am Lord, use me for whatever purpose you have.»