Clearly, the Lord's timing
in the fulfillment of a promise may not coincide with our plans, but this does not negate the validity of the promise.
Very shortly,
in fulfillment of that promise, so the Scriptures say, power did descend upon them.
The gesture by Nana Kwame Berma Anim II, Chief of Krodua in the Upper West Akyem District, is
in fulfillment of a promise he made last year to give out some 500 acres of land belonging to the Asamankese Stool to support Ghana Cocoa Board's «Youth In Cocoa Farming Initiative».
The Federal Government, on Thursday, handed over the Presidential Lodge, Marina to the Lagos State Government
in fulfillment of the promise of President Muhammadu Buhari to entrust the edifice to the State for tourism development.
In fulfillment of his promise to invest GHC3 million into the creative arts industry in the country, President John Dramani Mahama has released another GHC1 million into the industry this year to add up to the GHC1 million was released last year.
In her opening remarks, Chairman, Board of ETF, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui - Okauru said the presentation of cheques to beneficiaries was
in fulfillment of the promise made by Governor Ambode during the electioneering and a confirmation of many to come.
In fulfillment of the promise, the government announced Tuesday that it will from October this year begin giving each trainee GH cents 400, from which GH cents 196 will used to pay for trainees» utilities.
In fulfillment of the promise, the government announced in August 2017 that it will from October that year begin giving each trainee GH cents 400, from which GH cents 196 will used to pay for trainees» utilities.
In fulfillment of his promise to construct two major hotels in Anambra State as part of the measures to boost tourism, Governor Peter Obi on Monday...
Former President, John Mahama has given Emmanuel Tagoe a brand new Hyundai Accent saloon car
in fulfillment of a promise he made to the boxer ahead of his fight against South African Fana Nzonke.
In fulfillment of its promise to make basic education free and accessible to all, government has announced plans to increase capitation grant from GHC 9.00 to GHC 10.00 in 2018.
Not exact matches
It might make you feel better
in the short term, but I
promise: the long - term
fulfillment of saving and growing your money far outweighs the temporary satisfaction
of retail therapy.
Apparently all
of the money Bezos spends on
fulfillment centers ($ 2.3 billion
in Q1) is not reducing the cost
of delivery as
promised.
However, it also recognizes what could
promise toward a
fulfillment in terms on
of one's own.
God's
promised fulfillment includes, among other things, the image
of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage
in the business
of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this
fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?
satans aim was to stop the
fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations
in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants
in the land
of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine
of the seed
of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time
of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy
of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing
of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but
in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God
promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe
in him.brentnz
In our mundane existence, we know God only partially, and the gifts
of the Spirit appear to be more
promise than
fulfillment.
Moltmann's hermeneutical predilections for
promise over
fulfillment, for ethics over aesthetics, and for mission over rest also cause him to ignore play's self - contained meaning and instead to explore the function
of play
in contemporary society.
For the Christian the person
of Jesus
of Nazareth constitutes the decisive breaking
in of the
promise of fulfillment originating with Abraham.
For Abraham, the lesson could not be more pointed: His excessive preoccupation with God's personal
promise, with his own merit and its reward — that is, with personal justice — is
in fact at odds with the
fulfillment of the purpose
of God's
promise that he become a great nation, steeped
in righteousness, to become a blessing to all the others.
And believers
in revelation feel a trusting responsibility to the universe itself to allow the
promise of fulfillment to lure them forward into the future.
It is the true
fulfillment now
in time
of the Emanuel
promise... God with us... no longer «up there» high above separate
in the heavens but now among us, with us,
in us, through us, as us, the All
in all, the through all things reconciling all to the All.
Both communism and National Socialism claimed many
of the prerogatives
of religion and made many
of the same
promises — from the creation
of a «new man» to the
fulfillment of many
of the communitarian ideals found
in religion.
Here, too, Israel reads her own experience
of seeking to take matters
of the covenant, the Yahweh covenant, into her own hands, to force, by her own means,
in her own way,
in trust
in her own devices, the
fulfillment of the divine
promise.
The remnant or the one, and we find both concepts before as well as after the Fall, is a projection
of faith, an assertion
of hope
in the ultimate
fulfillment of the covenant
promise.
The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith
in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity,
of the divine
promises implicit
in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine
promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against
fulfillment — all
of this Israel is mindful
of in the shaping
of the stories, and
in the reading and cherishing
of the stories.
In the light of this belief we better understand how Israel's hope and faith in the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a natio
In the light
of this belief we better understand how Israel's hope and faith
in the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a natio
in the ultimate
fulfillment of tile divine
promise survived her own violation
of the terms
of the covenant and her destruction as a nation.
Israel's persistent, obstinate hope
in the ultimate
fulfillment of the
promise is itself an act
of faith, made defiantly
in the face
of her own repeated abandonment
of faith.
In the month of Shawwal 628, Muhammad ordered his followers to obtain sacrificial animals and to make preparations for a pilgrimage (umrah) to Mecca, saying that God had promised him the fulfillment of this goal in a vision where he was shaving his head after the completion of the Ha
In the month
of Shawwal 628, Muhammad ordered his followers to obtain sacrificial animals and to make preparations for a pilgrimage (umrah) to Mecca, saying that God had
promised him the
fulfillment of this goal
in a vision where he was shaving his head after the completion of the Ha
in a vision where he was shaving his head after the completion
of the Hajj
This is a concrete case,
in our age,
of the
fulfillment of the
promise of which the puritan John Robinson has spoken: «The Lord has yet more light and truth to break forth...»
Israel's present relatively ordered existence is the creation
of God out
of former disorder and is to be understood and accepted as his creative gift
in fulfillment of his free
promise to the patriarchs.
The deposit
of revelation is said to be finished or fixed, but this can be a salvific teaching only if it means that there is sufficient evidence
in our past history to convince us that we live within the horizon
of a
promise which by its nature always looks to the future for
fulfillment.
The intuition that Christ is the
fulfillment of a cosmic
promise, one that has a breadth that carries revelation beyond the sphere
of human existence, is already present
in Paul's letter to the Romans: «The creation waits with eager longing for the revealing
of the sons
of God.
And it is not yet the Kingdom
of God which will come
in power «at the end
of time,» when everything will be radically changed by the
fulfillment of what is
promised.
Lutherans speak
of «growth
in grace and faith,» with effects
in Christian living; eternal life is, biblically speaking, «unmerited «reward,»» a
fulfillment of God's
promise to the believer.
If the Christ myth is true
in the way that it claims to be true, it stands to other myths as the
fulfillment of their
promise and truth.
In marriage, the most
promising area for mutual growth, too few
of us learn to find
fulfillment.
Because
of these acts we know him to be real, accessible, and infinitely gracious, and
in that knowledge we find the
promise of both the coming
of his kingdom and the ultimate
fulfillment of our own lives: «Through the tender mercy
of our God, the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit
in darkness and
in the shadow
of death, to guide our feet into the way
of peace.»
The incomplete
fulfillments spur on God's people to hope all the more; indeed, the Abrahamic
promise of blessing for the nations is picked up elsewhere
in the Old Testament.
(my insertion: these beings needed to disrupt human DNA
in order to prevent the
fulfillment of God's
promise in the garden to «put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.»
The soul mate model
promises levels
of fulfillment that previous generations did not expect
in a partner.
In his person as well as in his vivid images of the kingdom, Jesus sacramentalizes the compassionate God whose promise is coming to fulfillmen
In his person as well as
in his vivid images of the kingdom, Jesus sacramentalizes the compassionate God whose promise is coming to fulfillmen
in his vivid images
of the kingdom, Jesus sacramentalizes the compassionate God whose
promise is coming to
fulfillment.
And, moreover, is there perhaps a premature closure
of history
in Christian faith's identification
of Jesus as the conclusive
fulfillment of God's ageless
promises?
But it is the «word
of God» that interprets these events and allows us to see
in them a
promise of future
fulfillment.
This sounds to me like «Have faith
in the Jesus as he revealed himself as savior, Lord, and
fulfillment of God's
promise to save.»
This is why the responsible educator delights
in the students» rejection
of old and outworn ideas and rejoices
in the acceptance
of new ones that
promise to bring further personal
fulfillment and improve social relationships.
The event itself receives a temporal density by being inscribed
in a signifying relation
of «
promise» to «
fulfillment.»
In Chapter 3 we viewed revelation as the gift
of a founding
promise that brings history into being and that holds out to it the hope
of fulfillment.
In succeeding centuries this community increasingly remembers David not as a king but as the king, the Person in whom the fulfillment of the covenant hope is promised again, peculiarly symbolized, meaningfully previewe
In succeeding centuries this community increasingly remembers David not as a king but as the king, the Person
in whom the fulfillment of the covenant hope is promised again, peculiarly symbolized, meaningfully previewe
in whom the
fulfillment of the covenant hope is
promised again, peculiarly symbolized, meaningfully previewed.
Expositors through the centuries have generally failed to deal with the fall
of Jerusalem
in a.d. 70 as a
fulfillment of the
promise of «the end
of the age» that looms so large
in the pages
of the New Testament.