Sentences with phrase «god through experience»

This is the approach to God through experience.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

I've found that is real god through experience.

Perhaps it is necessary to rid ourselves of the false theological ideas we tend to accumulate about God through our experiences over time and blind us to the Immanent Divine Reality.

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..

I can tell you from a personal experience that the Love, Peace and Joy that only God through Jesus can give is truly wonderful and truly great to see them spread!

It doesn't happen that often, and I'm sure there's a crowd of people behind me that I've somehow turned off to Jesus inadvertently — but slowly, through these kind of experiences, I'm figuring out how to love people well, and I'm continuing to learn how to love God more in everything I do.

I believe James is saying that we should have joy in our hope that God will get us through these times, but not have joy because we are experiencing those trials.

When you are prayed for for healing your experience of God is through someone else's experience and your experience is the result of theirs.

He is guided by Max Stackhouse's definition of religious humanism: «Humanity can not be understood without reference to God; and neither God nor God's revelation can be understood except through the lens of thought and experience.»

«Not only is the whole experience of visiting St Mary's so often seen through a camera lens but also some visitors seem completely unaware of the difference between this space as «the House of God» and, say, that of the Sheldonian.»

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

The most generous and sacrificial people I know have all had some sort of experience in which God birthed compassion in them through exposure to the poor while on a mission trip.

Well, as I have gone over time and time again, the dreams were journaled, as well as the experiences that she'd light on Gods abilities to interact and communicate through control, sovereign ability.

They don't need to experience God through family!

How truly well put, stunningly beautiful... not only did you express your experience perfectly but you have offered many of us who wander and wonder a sense of the greater peace through the door of love and forgiveness... acknowledging the fact that a steeple, a sermon, nor an offering plate are a requirement in finding God at the heart of us all...

In His great love, God leads us through experiences that are difficult but essential to our growth and development.»

Through memory, Augustine explains at various points in Book X of the Confessions, we are able to review our past actions and discern a variety of important themes: we can see when we were moving towards God and (conversely) when we were moving away from Him; when we discerned the good rightly and sought it properly and (conversely) when we misidentified the good and sought experiences or possessions that were bad for us; when God was calling us towards Himself, whether we heard His voice or not; and so on.

God is something most Christians come to understand and know through faith, experience, reason, and reflection.

Kneeling, he writes, «is an expression of Christian culture, which transforms the existing culture through a new and deeper knowledge and experience of God.»

Don't miss out on allowing God to grow you and heal you through your experiences.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

Truly finding out about God is through experience.

this system of spiritual beings is a multi-staged hierarchy, which spans 50 dimensions and every spiritual plane attached to these dimensions, with a supreme, male god - being who is above the 50th dimension, and many of these beings pretend to be «good» but are manipulators who impose suffering, and through brainwashing, force, and authority / domination, they condition people to believe that suffering is «good» for a «learning experience» (read the article that is in the link i shared) but i am left wondering why so few actually question this?

I have been enlightened by the life and wisdom of Gandhi, but I have not experienced intimacy with God through the Hindu Tradition, although I recognize that Krishna is a Christ figure and have no doubt that there are Hindus that have spiritually experienced the intimacy with God that I as a Christian have experienced.

The novel, drawing on Augustine's insights, transformed the individual's reliance on God into self - reliance and staged the hero's growth through a series of life - transforming experiences.

The more experience you have with God, the easier it is to have faith... The truth is that God always comes through.

I do believe we were placed on this life on this world of both good and evil in order to know first hand what goodness and happiness really is since how can you know what happiness is without also experiencing misery, or knowing what sweet is without knowing the bitter, and ultimately, hopefully we would choose through our own free will to follow the teachings God has given us.

But one important difference is that an essential part of the peyote ritual is to experience God through the mind - altering effects of the drug; that is not part of the communion service in any Christian tradition, and it is not part of any Jewish celebrations or rituals.

Because it was my pastoral experience that congregants rarely supplied at least 10 % of their income to God - be that through their local church or to other worthy causes.

Enjoy both for what they are — different ways of experiencing and understanding Scripture so that through it, God inspires you to live more like Jesus in this world.

I think that God will use this experience in your life to help others who have gone through similar pain.

Others see God through the witness of his Church, and decide from there if they believe in God (a good experience gets a yes vote, and a bad experience gets a no vote).

It is an experience of the rule and reign of God in and through our lives in relationship with God and one another.

Another condition of us being in this life to experience a world of both good and evil is that we go through this life for a limited time only, and that for us to obtain the greatest happiness that God can give us, it can't be done if were all dead without any means to overcome death.

I newly started http://www.wordsareliving.com sharing inspiration and encouragement from women to women through the word of God and Life experience.

The mystics often seek to experience God through altered states of consciousness, generally induced by trance or meditation instead of drugs.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

I call this alchemy «narrative theology» because I'm usually just wanting to write what I think and experience about God and the best way I know how to do that is through story - telling.

It wasn't until I lived through the trauma of miscarriage that I experienced my need for God's redemptive love in a way I never had before.

I want each person who comes through the line to experience something of the embracing love of God.

Their experience of God's acts of mercy generally came through God's protection and defence of His people in time of war, or through His providing them with food and shelter, or giving them rites by which they might express sorrow and receive God's forgiveness.

God does a new thing in our lives that redeems the former, not by negating our experience, but by redeeming it and transforming us through it.

This time, the cycle was broken by an event that Johnson describes as a mystical experience in which God broke through and asked, «Why are you fighting me?»

While the Holy Spirit can and does work through every one of our meager attempts, continually experiencing the Good News in our own soul — especially as believers — is part of God's continual kingdom work, too.

The very truth that God put on flesh and blood and moved into the neighbourhood through birth, even — especially — that experience of birth, now showing us what it means to be truly human.

«God is self - revealed in terms we can understand through our own experiences, using metaphors which are, at times, feminine.

And in a time when work is proving increasingly sterile and defective, could it not be through our play that the serendipity of God's presence might most easily be experienced?

It takes an adult self - consciousness — the experience of an adult living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different from God's love or Christ's gift of salvation.

The foundation of my belief is actual experience and validation through answered prayer, miracles and observed honored promises of God as recorded in the Bible.