Sentences with phrase «abide with god»

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We can either abide in line with this or choose to reject God and live in rebellion.

John goes on to say that this is not only how we remain in fellowship with God, but also how we abide or remain in fellowship with each other (1 John 2:19).

God seeks me and desires to dwell with me, to abide with me, to stay.

What is often neglected in these ministries is that the emphasis in the context of these Scriptures is not on the kind of faith or the amount of faith, but on abiding with Christ and asking according to the will of God.

Just as the Prodigal Son did not have fellowship with his father while he was in the far country (Luke 15:11 - 32) yet continued to be a son the entire time, so also, those who are children of God will stay a member of His family even when they stray into sin and rebellion, but they will not abide or remain in fellowship with God when they are away from Him.

Not in the temples made with hands, God, the Most High, is dwelling High above earth His temple stands, all earthly temples excelling; Yet He who dwells in Heavens above chose to abide with us in love Making our bodies His temples.

You will immediately protest that I am canonizing every syllable of the New Testament as if it were part of the unchanging wisdom of God, and that I am varnishing its errors and its obsolete thought with the splendor of abiding truth.

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

Now, what a child of God does with His truth, is up to them (free will), but everyone needs to know that your soul depends on knowing His truth by reading the Bible, comprehending it, and then abiding (applying) His truth to their lives to produce His righteous truth in all thoughts / beliefs, writings, actions as He instructs us to live while house in human form.

They respect the other people of the book (Surah Al «Imran, 84) since they abide by the same God with an upgraded message.

It is the abiding Word of God alone that tests and accompanies all study of Scripture; it challenges and encourages us to continue on this road, critically weighing all human words about God's Word, with the expectation and certainty shared with the church of all ages that the «jewel» of the gospel will not be lost in a new and still unknown future.24

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

As shock muffled my ability to experience God's abiding presence with me, my director invited me to open myself to discover all the ways God was reassuring me that I was not walking this journey by myself.

But if you refuse to abide, if you refuse to stay in fellowship with Him, and with Christ, and with other Christians, then there is nothing God can do to force you to produce fruit.

Only one chapter is explicitly theological, dealing with Life, based on the Whiteheadian understanding of God, exploring what enables the development of life, its increased complexity and capacity for intensity, harmony, contrast, and richness of experience through the lure of novel possibilities to be actualized and the abiding acceptance of all experience, preserved everlastingly with no loss of immediacy.

We journey in joy and to joy on feet fitted with the peace of our good news gospel, warding off every attack against that joy with the shield of faith, and wielding the sword of the Spirit, the very Word of God in whom we abide as He makes our joy complete.

To «abide» means to remain in and not depart from, and this we do as we ask Him to satisfy us in the morning with His steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days (Psalm 90:14), fixing our eyes on Jesus, who is Himself the very Word of God on which we meditate and build the foundation of our lives as a rock enduring the storms (Matthew 7:24 - 27).

Praying according to God's will is not difficult, if we learn to pray Scripture and abide with Christ by being aware of His constant presence.

The OT was not in error, it simply clarified how Christians should abide in the law of the land at that time, without breaking their covenant with God.

With sadness in my heart, I'm watching the America of my youth and working life, of God - fearing and law - abiding people, being totally replaced by EVIL leaders elected by a majority of a foolish and ignorant population!

On the one hand, God must so act to accept both the self and all others into God's own everlasting life as thereby to endow them with abiding significance.

She is able to declare that «I now do believe in a life after death, beyond a shadow of a doubt,» and she suggests that «truly religious people with a deep abiding relationship with God have found it much easier to face death with equanimity.»

Although he recognizes the precariousness of efforts to communicate with an invisible, silent God, the abiding paradox of living in a world that recognizes its own contingency forces him to concede that such communication will likely continue as a feature of modern life.

This is one layer of my onion spritual character... there are a lot of layer of characters which God is still dealing with me.I am born of God, I still do sin that is why I need to abide in Him everyday to get the strength from Him not to fall into sin.

He hates God, he hates Jesus Christ His Son with all the hatred he has, and he will do anything in his power to separate those human beings which God created for Himself to fellowship with, who by loving Him and allowing Him to become their Lord, become His living temples, where He abides in their hearts, from God who created them.

My proximity - based relationship with Jesus produced a life of striving not abiding, running instead of resting, and chasing after God instead of being «found in him» (see Phil.

Having added the second issue, which deals not with the proposed criterion as such but with an imagined situation in which we could know that God is abiding by it, Hasker then argues that God should not prevent all gratuitous evils.

Love and follow Jesus» truth and spiritually live now on earth, then through eternity with God who created all, or continue following satan's lies, die spiritually while on earth, get to paradise, still reject Jesus, he'll abide in what you want, no eternity for you.

God's grace and strength be and abide with you for ever.

«And they who do not call upon another god with Allah and do not slay the soul, which Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of justice, and (who) do not commit fornication and he who does this shall find a requital of sin; The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection, and he shall abide therein in a basement; Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.»

Intercessory prayer can best be understood as God's release of his Spirit and healing, creative forces within a law - abiding world, such release being dependent in part upon our willingness to work with him for the furtherance of other persons» good.

The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law - abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.

Our security comes from having a close relationship with God and abiding in him through faith and obedience.

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The Welsh believing that they would win more FA cups; an improved rendition of «Abide with me» at the cup final; operatic singing of the National Anthem at Wembley finals; and increased respect at Wembley with England supporters not booing foreign anthems and England players, especially John Terry, actually singing rather than miming «God Save the Queen».

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God's love infuses our lives with meaning, and guides our will to help our neighbors; wherever God's love abides, you can not lack for care.

An abiding fascination with the sea, wave action, sea gods and mariners informs her work, as does her relationship with the coast of Ireland.