If you can't share a story of
the healing grace of God then you'll probably serve the Kingdom wonderfully in some other manner!
Not exact matches
perhaps
God has allowed the suffering to give those
of us more fortunate the opportunity to show and share
Gods grace and mercy to them.Maybe we are supposed to love Lucas like
God loved us when He gave us full capacity.instead
of finding fault, maybe
God trusted mankind enough to think that we would or could do something for the Lucas»
of this world, maybe we are given the trust to
heal the sick, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, love the unloved, if so how are we doing?i got room for improvement how about you rational?
But let us take action carefully in order that the sickness
of our nature may be perfectly
healed and we thirst to come to
God out
of love for Him and hatred
of this life and disgust with ourselves; that is, let us assiduously seek His
healing grace.
we are no longer servants but friends, we are no longer exiles but home builders, we are no longer fighting but farming, we are no longer orphans but family, we are no longer meant for the brickyard but for the Promised Land, we are no longer broken but we are mended and
healed and whole, we are no longer wanderers but we are the ones who belong, with just as much a right to Love and to
grace and to redemption as every one who draws breath from the breath
of God.
If Jesus embodies
God's dreams for the world, then citizens
of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the people he ate with, by telling the sort
of stories he told, by
healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations
of power and money and violence, by breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and
grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point
of death.
* be guided and instructed by the Good News message, which is: ----
God is unconditional boundless
grace and unlimited unrestrained love and always has been; ----
God wants to have a loving intimate relationship with each
of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as
healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who are hurt or lost or oppressed; ---- be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness
of death and worldly powers; and ---- be — here and now — the Kingdom
of God.
However, through the mercy
of God and to the praise
of his glorious
grace, the mystery
of his purpose in Christ is upheld by the Son, who takes upon Himself the burden
of healing and reintegrating our broken nature and vindicating the glory
of God in creation.
(Previous posts include: The Scar
of Sexual Abuse by Mary DeMuth; No More Silence: An Interview with Boz Tchividjian
of G.R.A.C.E.; «Today's Journey»: Thoughts on
Healing from
Grace Biskie; Proper Treatment for Sexual Abuse by Dr. Philip Monroe; and «
God is Love» by Sarah Moon.)
The classical Protestant doctrine
of *
Grace Alone * may initially sound
god - honoring; but it is actually denial of the God's promise to heal disordered minds, emotions and wil
god - honoring; but it is actually denial
of the
God's promise to heal disordered minds, emotions and wil
God's promise to
heal disordered minds, emotions and wills.
* By feeding, quenching,
healing, clothing, housing, including and visiting — being here and now the unrestrained love and unconditional
grace of God;
The disappointments hurt tremendously, and by the
grace of God, I have been able to
heal from the situations.
To summarize our lesson for today: Paul reminds us that the vast Christian world needs to rise above divisive controversies and
heal our differences; to adhere to the basic and undistorted gospel message («We are saved by the
grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ»); to draw close to Christ and therefore to one another; and to follow our savior Christ, the Prince
of Peace, in reaching out to the lost and alleviating the suffering
of others.
With the help
of the evangomercials and Peterson's book, Thomas came home after 25 years
of suffering outside the Church with various inflictions, and now experiences
God's
healing grace through His Church. -RCB-
God has always been a consistent
God of life, peace, creation,
healing, reconciliation, resurrection, transformation, love, and
grace.
What could Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith call upon for help but religion) AA's answer for alcohol abusers was a simple form
of spiritual
healing through the
Grace of God, but without the trappings
of formal religion and churches.
God has always been a
God of life, peace, creation,
healing, reconciliation, resurrection, transformation,
grace, mercy, and love.
Grace doesn't only
heal us from sin, but it flowers into all sorts
of thoughts and motivations and instincts, replanted in the soul by
God.
If from the natural «radiation»
of body, soul, and both as «personality», sin in us is a principle
of dissolution, even in the material environment, then
grace likewise, especially the
grace of Christ, the summit
of God's Unity - Law in creation, is also a principle
of life, restoration and
healing.
A pastor who was part
of the ex-gay movement told me that, like a chick «emerging» from an egg, I would surely find true «
healing» and that my heterosexual identity would «emerge» by
God's
grace.
Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus
healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that
God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related
of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive
Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way
of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver
of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations
of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture
of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to
God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings
of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without
God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way
of thinking.brentnz
We see numerous examples in the Bible
of God using the body parts
of His Saints or even articles
of their clothing to convey His
healing power and
grace.
It immediately eliminates any possibility
of anonymity, which is a penitent's right in Canon Law, turning the priest into a guru rather than the minister
of God's
healing grace.
The benefits are:
God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with
God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul;
Grace is given; Confession reminds us
of the price
of sin; The profits
of penance; Remission
of eternal punishment; Temporal punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament
of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source
of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.
«He is our repose as the one freeing the law from the contingent slavery in the flesh during the present life; our
healing, as the one
healing [us]
of the affliction
of death and destruction through his Resurrection; our
grace, as the distributor
of sonship in the Spirit by
God the Father through faith, and
of the
grace of divinisation for each one according to worthiness.»
We are dealing here with the very difficult questions
of the relation
of psychological concepts
of healing to ultimate affirmations
of faith in
God and his
grace.
For some, accepting the past comes with the
healing power
of time,
God's relentless
grace and a whole lot
of support.
Jesus» proclamation includes the full dimensions
of a truly human life — physical and mental
healing, bringing new life to the poor; a new stewardship
of all resources
of the earth and the gifts
of the
grace of God for the flowering
of human life, and to enable the principalities and powers on earth or in the air to perform their true political function.
So the way forward there is through humility, including a recognition
of wrongs done on both sides and the desire to
heal the divisions, by
God's
grace.
Doug Sloan — «
God has always been a consistent
God of life, peace, creation,
healing, reconciliation, liberation, resurrection, transformation, love, and
grace.»
As Evangelicals and Catholics committed to the Gospel's invitation to discipleship, we are acutely aware
of many ways in which our broken lives need the
healing and reconciling power
of God's
grace.
Counselors and psychotherapists who are religiously oriented see all
of this as the way
God works, using a therapeutic relationship as the channel
of his
grace by which psychological
healing and growth can occur.
The Good News has 3 inseparable messages: 1) The universal accessibility
of the personal and persistent unrestrained love and unconditional
grace of God; and 2) The feeding quenching clothing
healing visiting welcoming compassion and the reparative rehabilitating restorative justice
of the Community; and 3) The inclusive hospitality and joyous generosity and healthy service
of the Individual.
Healing — at first fitful and slow — lies in the reforming
grace of God, within the wisdom
of the Church.
God's
grace, when coupled with the power
of repentance and forgiveness, has a profound ability to
heal.
In earnestly repenting and in extending
grace, you will find the
healing power
of God at work in your life.
«We are a group
of Christian Counselors who treat clients
of all ages through Biblical truth and the
healing power
of God's
grace.
*
God's
Grace & Strength to get through Life's Challenges * The Gift & Blessing from
God Appointed Friendships * Answered Prayers
of Hope &
Healing
Leslie, Praying that
God will use your boldness in sharing to help
heal others — and to show them the
grace of our Lord!