«May the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.»
May the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The life of its people together will be complex, the demands of being a Christian difficult, but they will find
joy and peace as they seek to embody the symbol of one who gave his life for what he believed.
Not exact matches
Although we can't be happy all the time, we need to make sure that we often experience positive emotions such
as pleasure, happiness, contentment,
peace,
joy,
and inspiration.
My hope is that Lucas will find total
peace and joy as he comes to know God personally.
I am sorry to vent
and in no way taking away from what abused women go through, but looking back, in the name of keeping
peace and wanting to do a good job
as an educator, I realize now, I have been bullied, mistreated
and yes, even abused by the higher ups, while the level of educational quality
and my
joy of teaching have been robbed by all the PC guidelines that now rule education.
Everything which belongs to «love,
joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self - control» is properly to be recognized
and acknowledged
as the fruit of the activity of the Holy Spirit (Gal.
Wish him well
as he continues to sow love where there is hatred, seek
peace where there is strife, bring
joy where there is misery
and above all else share the gospel message of Christ with all mankind.
As you said Jeremy, «God's main concerns are justice, compassion, grace, mercy, generosity, love,
joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self - control.»
Something tells me I'm going to need more of it
as I move through acceptance,
peace,
and maybe even
joy.
Having received Yeshua / Jesus
as Messiah
and Savior I now have great
peace and joy inside.
Once we begin to understand how the gospel creates
peace, mocks our vain claims to self - importance,
and teaches us to live
as agents of
joy and delight in the world, how will these truths begin to create unity among the bickering factions of Christianity?
We may not always be happy about everything that goes on in our lives, but if we know the Saviour,
as Spafford did, we can have true
joy and peace that will sustain us through any trial!
Since my affections have been set above measure on you, I have had less
peace and joy in God; I have felt
as it were a division in my heart.
Hath really neither
joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor
peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by nig
And we are here
as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle
and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by nig
and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
• The potential emotional trauma
and hardening of the heart in these activities surely does not engender the fruit of the Spirit such
as love,
peace, gentleness,
joy, humility
and kindness.
When people see the
peace, love,
and joy I have
as a transsexual that follows Jesus, then the tighter their box, the louder they explode.
Each of us is welcome to your faith
as long
as it enriches your spirit, brings
joy and peace to your life,
and does so without harming anyone.
It might surprise you, especially when you consider that Paul boils down the Kingdom message
as one of righteousness,
peace and joy (Rom 14)
and knows full well that righteousness is about relationships.
When you believe in Jesus
as your Savior, you can have a
joy and peace that passeth all understanding
as you live out your life.
And if it turns out in the end that all of this is bunk, that the Bible is a lie, well then, we have no sure way of knowing what eternity holds and any religious belief is as good as another, and we should choose a way of living which helps us show love towards others and helps us live a life with a sense of the divine that brings hope, joy, and peace to our li
And if it turns out in the end that all of this is bunk, that the Bible is a lie, well then, we have no sure way of knowing what eternity holds
and any religious belief is as good as another, and we should choose a way of living which helps us show love towards others and helps us live a life with a sense of the divine that brings hope, joy, and peace to our li
and any religious belief is
as good
as another,
and we should choose a way of living which helps us show love towards others and helps us live a life with a sense of the divine that brings hope, joy, and peace to our li
and we should choose a way of living which helps us show love towards others
and helps us live a life with a sense of the divine that brings hope, joy, and peace to our li
and helps us live a life with a sense of the divine that brings hope,
joy,
and peace to our li
and peace to our life.
You are now attempting to take the practice of «meditation,» which is typically understood,
and defined
and practiced, especially in the Easter Religious context
as a «quieting,
and stilling of the body
and mind, to clear the mind of negativity,
and create states of
peace, harmony,
joy, etc...
... He is therefore happy in God, yea, always happy,
as having in him «a well of water springing up into everlasting life»,
and «overflowing his soul with
peace and joy.»
Jesus is
as good
as we hope,
and everything for which you are longing — love,
joy,
peace, justice, mercy, home, good work — is real because it rooted in God's heart for us.
I leave you with the words of our brother Paul
as recorded in Romans 15:13: May the God of hope fill you with all
joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
In unclouded
joy,
and in sheer sorrow, there remains always,
as an experience, the presence
and support of Christ - communally in the Church, personally in the individual life: «my
peace I leave with you; my
peace I give to you: not
as the world gives, do I give to you».
When a good text comes home to him, «This,» he writes, «gave me good encouragement for the space of two or three hours»; or «This was a good day to me, I hope I shall not forget it»; or «The glory of these words was then so weighty on me that I was ready to swoon
as I sat; yet not with grief
and trouble, but with solid
joy and peace»; or «This made a strange seizure on my spirit; it brought light with it,
and commanded a silence in my heart of all those tumultuous thoughts that before did use, like masterless hell - hounds, to roar
and bellow
and make a hideous noise within me.
If we can not within these structures find moral guidance from the law of love
and moral stability from faith in God
as he comes to us in Christ, not even the most rapturous experience of
joy and peace through the lifting of the burden of sin will be sufficient.
We journey in
joy and to
joy on feet fitted with the
peace of our good news gospel, warding off every attack against that
joy with the shield of faith,
and wielding the sword of the Spirit, the very Word of God in whom we abide
as He makes our
joy complete.
The
peace, the
joy,
and the sheer delight of pastors who are faithful to their calling is not the product of a successful ministry
as it is usually defined by denominational leaders anxious to perpetuate their own power
and position.
Rather, I have begun more
and more to experience for myself the «
joy of the Gospel» that Pope Francis calls us all to proclaim,
and which shone out in the lives of the priests who inspired me
as a young man: an extraordinary sense of
peace, happiness
and purpose which comes from encountering Jesus
and handing your life over to him.»
I don't know how it always looks to choose love in a way that exemplifies my commitment to the cultivation of the fruit of the spirit in my own life, such
as peace,
joy, goodness, love, faithfulness, gentleness
and so on.
My conclusion for now is to cling tightly to the love,
joy,
and peace that is mine
as a child of God
and share it in meaningful ways to those around me, period.
One minister wrote of his loneliness
as a clergyman: «I have driven in the dark in my little silver Accord on more than one occasion, realizing that there is no one within 50 miles of where I live with whom I can share my deepest pain or
joy, no place where I can experience the quiet exultation
and peace of complete acceptance.»
Paul cited love,
joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness
and self - control
as «fruits of the Spirit.»
I just assumed that they floated through the day in uninterrupted bliss, their hearts full of
joy and peace, their lives
as sweet
and orderly
as a box of Russell Stovers.
«Seek
peace and you will find it, but seek only to bear trials with
joy as if they were holy relics.»
powerful all consuming love... of extreme forgiveness... of compassion... is an example that all of humanity can learn from... much love to you all
as I know that if you seek Him he will be near you
and you will find
peace in His arms... this is my prayer for you all that you might seek Him
and be overwhelmed with
joy in knowing how much you are truly loved
The writer of this strange apocalyptic book regarded the millennium
as an interlude before the final cosmic battle — an interlude in which
peace and joy reign supreme
and all evil is completely, if temporarily, suppressed.
These days I am discovering great
peace,
joy and freedom
as I apprentice myself to Christ in the way of Love.
It says further on that the Kingdom of God is within us...
and yes, I know there is a dispute
as to whether it means in our midst, or within us, however, once it is defined
as righteousness,
and peace,
and joy in the Holy Ghost, it is evident that it is within us..
So if you want to go on
and live this life
as an atheist, you'll be missing out on all He is offering you — forgiveness of all your sins,
and eternal life in a place of complete
joy,
peace and where there is no death or sorrow, only pleasures forever more.
The pleasure, to be
as God intended it, is linked to a spiritual
joy and peace in mutual possession, in which the spiritual
joy of loving each other in God is the determinant
and ruling
joy of the bodily communion.
I also guide people to birth themselves
as healthy
and whole human beings capable of immense
joy and inner
peace.
I will love freely
and share
joy, practice patience
and self - control, show kindness
and pursue goodness,
and live a life of faithfulness
as I walk gently
and in
peace through this wonderful world we share.
With that in mind, below are a few different ways to work with your cravings
and ultimately use them
as a tool to experience more
joy and peace in your life.
At another Deepak Chopra lecture, I listened
as he ended the session with a guided meditation
and asked, «When was the last time you felt
joy and peace?»
Each year,
as we continue to live larger lives with more distractions, more work, more technology, more stuff — it gets easier
and easier to forget about what really matters —
peace of mind, serenity,
and inner
joy.
«Diaphragmatic breathing is the essence of how we can control our levels of emotional wellbeing — stimulating the «relaxation response» (parasympathetic nervous system) that is associated with emotions such
as peace, love
and joy,
as opposed to the «fight - or - flight» response (sympathetic nervous system) which can generate feelings of fear
and anger.»
I quietly shed a few tears of
joy and gratitude with our legs crossed in our final seated pose,
and I felt a strong sense of inner
peace as we concluded our time together on my family's porch.