Sentences with phrase «in fulfillment of the promise»

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 natioIn 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 natioin 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 HaIn 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 Hain 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 fulfillmenIn his person as well as in his vivid images of the kingdom, Jesus sacramentalizes the compassionate God whose promise is coming to fulfillmenin 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 previeweIn 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 previewein 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.