You are wrong in assuming you know everything just because you have thus far not entered
into a relationship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 29:11, the rallying cry of prosperity preachers everywhere, often holds much of the consumerist and impatient attitude we take
into our relationship with God.
In a similar way, when we enter
into relationship with God who reveals Himself to us in Jesus Christ this will have real consequences for the way we live our lives.
It is in the sincere practice of their own faith that people come
into relationship with God, not in spite of it.
From this realisation flows the insight that if we desire to enter
into relationship with God we need to look at what this particular «someone», Christ, actually did.
I think many of us get help from therapy in understanding what our problems are, and it doesn't occur to us to take our problems
into our relationship with God.
Precisely that kind of man, «transported by his passion» — in this case his being caught up
into a relationship with God in Christ, although it may very well be true in other ways as well, since to be «transported» by passion is to enter upon the most profound experience possible to human beings — precisely such a man does feel and know what is nothing other than «the secret of the universe».
This tough, but honest, prayer along with the birth of his daughter pushed Chance back
into a relationship with God, one he had ignored for some time.
And God's vision / experience of itself draws us back
into relationship with God.
The man who seeks to bring
himself into relationship with God and seeks it with as much earnest zeal as others seek the goods which they may obtain in their several businesses and professions in the ways of the world does not come away empty.
But instead of being a sign of weakness, doubt can actually be something that causes us to dig deeper
into our relationship with God, and can even make our faith stronger.
Satan is trying to take people's attention away from Jesus completed work on the cross and get them focussing on themselves and what they can do to get back
into relationship with God, instead of just accepting what Jesus has already done.
``... We just believe that those passions are also ways to enter
into relationship with God.
As Christians, we believe that when we enter
into relationship with God, we're filled with His Spirit.
Living our lives in a way that (hopefully) reflects the gospel message in everything we do, and drawing those we come into contact with along the way closer to or deeper
into relationship with God.
If we say our being, when it is the proper kind of being, will change others» lives and draw
them into relationship with God, aren't we implying that there is a proper kind of being?
Both Judaism and Christianity tend to view the divine indifference as a way of teasing us out of ourselves and
into relationship with God.
While Christian worship is not a viable religious choice for Jews, as Jewish theologians we rejoice that, through Christianity, hundreds of millions of people have entered
into relationship with the God of Israel.
This was understood as passing from the profane level of human life through a transformation which raised the human being to the sacred level,
into a relationship with God who is Holy.
The author shares his personal journey
into relationship with God and the revelation that has brought him.
Not exact matches
Three Christian charities - HOPE, LICC and the Bible Society - came together to publish «The Servant Queen, and the King She Serves», which provides rare insights
into the Queen's
relationship with God and how it's affected the other aspects of her life.
It seems to me that if
God had no purpose (read «vision) for us on earth, he would be taking us home as soon as we came
into relationship with him.
The faith of the West too easily devolves
into philosophical rationalization about divine Justice, rather than faith in the covenantal
relationship with a just and loving
God.
Many people who leave the church don't always go out
into the community to truly grow in their
relationship with God.
My
relationship with God is as natural as it is
with any other person; going back
into a situation where your walk is a «regiment» of reading, prayer, attending, singing, etc. is seriously a challenge, and I'm not sure what to do at this point... especially when confronted
with «so how did you like this or that?»
It may be possible to spiritually dip a toe
into some religions that are primarily about performing rituals, but a distinctive at the heart of the Christian faith is the offer of a
relationship with the personal
God.
The reason Christ suffered for our sins was to bring us back
into a «right» (i.e., direct)
relationship with God.
Part of the shocking revelation that Jesus brought us is that
God doesn't just want us to go to a happy, peaceful place, but that he's inviting us to enter
into a familial
relationship with Him and as His children we will live
with Him, do things
with Him and and work
with Him (and consequentially each other, forming a body that is One).
(Mk 12:17) We can not rule people
into having a
relationship with God; it is their own decision.
I was born and raised
into a Christian family, going to church each time the doors were open and eventually came
into a genuine
relationship with God.
Duet 11; 26
God gives man a choice to be blessed or cursed same as Adam there are consequences when we chose not to heed
Gods word.Did
God curse Adam yes he did both he and eve died spiritually they lost that constant fellowship
with God that
relationship was broken.So he was cast out from the garden from under
Gods protection.Adams love for Eve was his downfall he chose her love over
Gods love and When we chose anything else other than him for our security we fall
into the same trap as Adam.and we also must deal
with the consequences.He most definitely is a jealous
God.brentnz
Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people
into an authentic personal
relationship with the living
God, and most of our meetings even close
with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.
Instead,
God invites us
into a
relationship with him.
When I have seen this term used it has not been to inspire, or to draw us
into a closer
relationship with God... but to defend the indefensible.
Since those process categories have been connected
with ideas of
God inspired by the Bible, process theologians believe there is a chance in the twenty - first century to bring the long separated parts of human understanding
into a new, coherent
relationship.
Before we have been baptised Grace is the Gift which draws us
into personal
relationship with God, knowing Him more as our «Environer», preparing us to receive Faith, developing our natural need of him so that the Holy Spirit Himself may dwell within us.
You say that we need all this so that we can know for sure what is right about
God, about what to believe and what to do, and about how to get
into a right
relationship with God.
Songs that turn our
relationship with God into a slushy romance can be problematic for men and women alike.
It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of
God humanity has been taken
into unity
with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter
into their right
relationship to the Creator (the
relationship of sons to their Father) through
God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which
God in Christ evokes from them.
If the Bible is not inspired and is not inerrant, then we can't trust anything it says, and can not know for sure anything about
God, about ourselves, what to believe, or how to get
into a right
relationship with Him.
In Christ,
God desires to communicate
with us: He desires to enter
into a
relationship with us!
He applied his own theory about justification as establishing a covenant of grace to the marriage union, and argued that «
God draws a husband and wife
into a covenant
relationship with each other.»
Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity
into a
relationship of full communion
with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.
With the coming of Christ a completely new
God - man
relationship came
into being, which is not found in any other religion.
At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered
into ontological unity
with directly created spirit to form human nature, which exists in direct and personal
relationship to
God who is the Living Environment of grace and providence for every human being and for mankind as a whole.
So in Man matter is raised
into the supernatural realm of
relationship with God through the Word made flesh.
He has gotten
into some trouble in the past few years but by
God's great grace he is being drawn by the Holy Spirit
into a more intimate
relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
So the basic Christian affirmation is that
God is both the creative energy in all things, whose sovereign rule includes the whole world in its sweep, and also the living
God who can and does enter
into relationship with creation.
This conversation shows the type of
relationship God wants us to come
into with Him.
Please don't give up on
God or the Church because there is good ministry within the Church for you, but make your
relationship with God your first concern and he will lead you
into good
relationships.