Sentences with phrase «by opening our hearts»

So no, only by opening your heart can you know the one true God.

There are lots of paths to explore when you pray, or you can abandon all paths and just simply wing it by opening your heart to God and saying what's on your mind.

It can work by opening your heart in spite of yourself, or by enabling you suddenly to imagine a point of view other than the one you've been clinging to.

You do this by opening your heart in prayer for discernment BEFORE you open your Bible and take the time to meditate on your reading BEFORE you speak to your pastor or pick up a commentary or Bible study manual.

It's really important to note that giving back can happen in our daily lives in really powerful ways — just by opening our hearts.

By opening our hearts to one another we give the message that words don't adequately convey: that you are lovable right now exactly as you are.

It is only by opening your heart that you are able to connect with another person.

We speak at community groups and always end by asking them «to support our lifesaving work by opening your hearts and wallets to the needy animals who make their way to the shelter.»

Every day in thousands of homes across the country, foster families are quietly saving the lives of animals in need by opening their hearts and homes on a temporary basis.

By opening your heart — and your home — for as little as a few weeks, you can help to save the lives of pets who are underage, sick or injured that need a quiet, stress - free environment and a little more TLC than can be provided in a shelter environment.

Dog devotees can salute the heroism of military working dogs by opening their heart and home to a courageous canine veteran:

By opening your heart and home to one of our senior dogs, you are saving his or her life and providing their future family the opportunity to spend the best years of their lives with their new best friend.

Not exact matches

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

You can not open your heart by yourself.

I don't want to compare my experience to that of Moses, since I was only called to open my heart, but I find the scriptural account moving in that when Moses first notices the burning bush — a moment we have come to think of as a great theophany — the impression given by the text is more humdrum.

Right, they want their own holy book to be read with an «open heart» by everyone else, yet they refuse to even contemplate doing the same with someone else's book.

Christ's love was life - giving because when human hearts opened up to Him for whom they were made, the result was inevitably an increase in the life of the soul, a freeing from sin, the lightening of a burden, and the joy that comes from knowing you are close to God, or that you are loved by God.

As for the claim that if one simply waits long enough with an open heart, God will reveal Himself — that same argument is made by just about every religion.

By going to what he sees as the heart of the matter and capturing it in pure and extreme form, he breaks open the broader question and forces total reconsideration.

In truth it is impossible to keep one's gaze constantly fixed on the vast horizons opened out to us by science without feeling the stirrings of an obscure desire to see men drawn closer and closer together by an ever - increasing knowledge and sympathy until finally, in obedience to some divine attraction, there remains but one heart and one soul on the face of the earth.

While it by no means assures salvation or the Christian life, the properly guided assent opens the heart to receive the right impressions.

in a true sense the arms and the heart which you open to me are nothing less than all the united powers of the world which, permeated through and through by your will, your inclinations, your temperament, bend over my being to form it and feed it and draw it into the blazing centre of your infinite fire.

We don't pass on moral values directly, but we can open up the hearts of our children to encounter Christ, by our own example and by drawing them into this way of life.

Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known and from you no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name, through Christ our Lord, Amen.

By all means question, and when you investigate be open to the truth and do not look with a mind and heart already made up, with the intent to prove something wrong, a lie in fact.

With the opening words of the sermon, guilt and shame racked my heart, followed quickly by a dark cloud of hopelessness and despair.

The act of God opening her heart was an act of illumination by the Spirit to help her see, understand, and grasp the Scriptures in a new way, of making the puzzle pieces fit together in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

It is often pointed out that there were many women along the banks of the river in Philippi that day, but only one believed — the one whose heart was opened by God.

If you open your heart to Him, He'll reveal himself to you or to Dyslexic doG, or to anyone who asks — but you can't expect for it to be in a way that's determined by you.

The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.

Here is a question that was recently sent in about Acts 16 where it says that the Lord opened Lydia's heart to heed the things spoken by Paul:

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

We can not convert people... we can only teach by example and pray that all non-believers will find Jesus someday and open up their hearts... should they live their lives as if there is no God, it is their choice.

I have no doubt that even those of us who've come out of no more than a sense of obligation and fulfillment of the Easter Duty have brought hearts open and ready to be touched by God.

«Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith» (10:19 - 22).

It is not that repentance precedes an awareness of acceptance and hence the opening of new opportunities; rather, it is that when one knows through the action of God in the event of Jesus Christ that one is already accepted and forgiven by God the great Lover of the world, one's only response can be, «I am unworthy,» Because I am already and always accepted by God, who is the One «to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid», who knows each of us better than any of us can know ourselves, then I am impelled to see my own inadequacy, defects, failures, and wrongs.

John V. Taylor, a former Bishop of Winchester, wrote, «The unique and authentic opening of the eyes by the Spirit of creativity within the heart of all things produces that double exposure by which what is and what might be are seen together in a single vision.»

Stella needed to see God fulfil what He had set in my heart; my call was to seek Him to bring that forth, and through His Spirit in the midst of the situation I was able to testify of Christ through asking God to open Stella's understanding of His Son by giving her peace and strength.

Nevertheless, once the hearts of believers have been won by the love of God and their eyes opened by faith, they can not deny in their own experience the reliability of the grace of God.

Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard [publisher: Navpress; non-fiction, spiritual formation] «When we open ourselves to the writings of the New Testament, when we absorb our minds and hearts...

For those who might have wondered about my physical, condition, I did have open - heart surgery in July of 1989 followed by a myocardial infarction and a second surgery all on the same day — they cleaned out the old pipes and replaced a few — but within a month of that ordeal I was walking ten miles a day, and now, in the best physical shape I have been in for years, I am running 12 miles a week, so no one need be overly concerned.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Neither does Jesus use the exact word «homosexuality» to condemn all forms of fornication and adultery in Matthew 19, but anyone looking at that passage with an open mind and heart can't help but realize that homosexuality is indeed addressed by Him there.

Matthew and I were both puzzled by this mixed message: As parents, wouldn't we want more time, not less, for Christ to open our child's heart?

He opened my eyes and allowed me to see the damage I had been doing to my heart and mind by putting Him off.

It is a true presence of the Lord of the gospel, as by faith his people open their hearts to receive him into their lives.

«I am angry and sick at heart over Pastor Worley's comments,» said the Rev. Dennis Teall - Fleming, pastor at Open Hearts Gathering in Gastonia, North Carolina, in a statement distributed by GLAAD.

Re-hent9 hath been opened for me and Re-hent hath been unfastened before me, Re-hent hath been given unto me, and I shall come forth by day into whatsoever place I please; I have gained the mastery over my heart; I have gained the mastery over my breast C?)

We are simply Christ like people led by the Holy Spirit to speak words of life so that others can choose to open there hearts to salvation rather than reject it and stay on a path of destruction.

«I think I made it clear that with a «child» the heart is open, not yet filled with the darkness exhibited by likes of those who crucified Christ.