It is
this life giving Spirit that will fill the hearts of the faithful and renew the face of the earth.
Not exact matches
«Get on the Shelf taps into the
spirit of American innovation and
gives our customers a voice in selecting the products that will help them
live better,» says Joel Anderson, president and chief executive of Walmart.com, in a statement.
These Alpha executives, the ones who managed the company into bankruptcy, how can their
spirits be kept up as they strip health care from retirees who
gave their
lives to the company?
He has
given us His Holy
Spirit to
live inside of us, and Jesus speaks of the Holy
Spirit's role in our
lives:
The Lord is the One who
gives the
life our words, in our hearts, and by His
Spirit takes them and roots them, making our hearts His vineyard to bear fruit for Him!
so in your spare time of denial read Romans chapter 10 verses 9 thru 13 and
give your
life to Jesus Christ the one and only God that
gave his
life for all mankind, rich or poor that we may be forgiven of our sins and have power over the devil, and help the lost to find their way to salvation through the power of the Holy
Spirit... so rebuke the devil and be free,
give your
life to Christ so you can begin to sleep at night... I love you all with the love of Jesus Christ...
If the
spirit of the
living God resides in you it is only natural to share that love with them like Jesus did
giving them opportunity to believe Him and come to know him personally.
Having shared the great grace of baptism and having been appropriately catechized into «the mysteries,» evangelical Catholics understand, appreciate, and
live the biblical truth of Christian vocation as
given by St. Paul: «Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same
Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.
In between, we are
given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public
life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home
life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black
Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.
«It is as we feed on the Word and meditate on the message it contains that the
Spirit of God can vitalize that which we have received, and bring forth through us the word of knowledge that will be as full of power and
life as when He, the
Spirit of God, moved upon holy men of old and
gave them these inspired Scriptures.»
And the
spirit which he
gives to
live in us teaches us his thoughts through his word.
You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a
spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru
spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and
gave you
life... God has a purpose for your
life...
Almost every New Testament book speaks about the power that Christians have been
given through the Holy
Spirit living in their
lives.
It is so easy to manipulate people and situations and
give yourself standing in
life when you can call on the reputation of the Holy
Spirit.
Our buildings» spiritedness of souls are to be
given up upon death to the Holy
Spirit and in so doing we will be afforded another
Life within the domain (s) of the Kingdom of God!
Romans 8:11 If the
Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies through his
Spirit who dwells in you.
If we were to be operating in the realm of the
Spirit, there would be no lack... if we took the words of Jesus seriously and sought only the kingdom of God, everything would be taken care of... and yet we persist in praying for what God can
give us and not for the manifestation in our
lives.
The Holy
Spirit, the Anointing who
lives within Believers, has been
given to confirm Christ's word.
It is not as if matter has been invested with some divine quality in its own right — that would indeed be a magical understanding — rather it is the dynamic,
Spirit filled presence of the Christ in an enfleshed relationship with his People that constitutes the principle of sacramental
life -
giving empowerment.
IF we sow to the
Spirit we will reap eternal
life, IF we do not
give up.
It is the
Spirit who
gives life, the flesh on its own counts for nothing, yet it remains true that unless we receive him in the flesh we do not have
life within us (cf John 6,52 - 65).
The apostle Paul told the believers in Rome that the one «who raised Christ from the dead will
give life to your mortal bodies also through his
Spirit that dwells in you» (Rom.
May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing
lives, filled with the
life -
giving energy of the Holy
Spirit, will brim over with hope!
The poetry («
give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint
spirit»), the theology, the call for social justice and the Christological implications — a thousand sermons
live in these verses, a million possible reflections.
To speak of the Trinity, the One God who is made known to us as the Creator of all, the redeeming Christ and the
life -
giving Spirit, is to use a shorthand way of expressing the depths of the faith.
Can you imagine the shock of realizing you got this wrong and
gave people the false impression that they could resist the Holy
Spirit,
live in disobedience, and still be saved?
I also think that we've been
given the Holy
Spirit through Jesus and the fruits of the
Spirit taste like paradise to me and I am satisfied to eat His flesh and Drink His blood to be one with His body... which seems to be both
Spirit and flesh as He reunites the dead and the
living.
When legalists look to the Bible to
give them a clear outline on what to do in every facet of their
lives, they are engaging in idolatry by worshiping the book and the letter rather than the
Spirit which produced the book.
Every human being on this earth has been
given a
spirit and an ego; to love or hate, to believe or not believe, to judge or be judged., reflects our human
life.
«The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a
life -
giving Spirit.»
Or, He may just bathe our soul in a salve of encouragement and healing, restoring the presence of His
life -
giving Spirit.
Rather than liberating women by providing them equal opportunity to develop to the fullest their God -
given talents, abilities, and potential, this agenda, in fact, leads to women being demeaned, their
lives destroyed and their
spirits enslaved.
Matthew 3 and Mark 1 tells us that John baptized with water for repentance of sin, but in the new and better Covenant that Jesus
gave his blood and
life for, Jesus now baptizes with His
Spirit.
Frank there is no need to be afraid we have the holy
spirit he is the one that
gives us peace he is the one that calms the storms in our
lives without him
life is hell as we have to battle it on our own, As christians we are not alone any more he is our helper and the one who empowers us in this
life.God is sovereign and he judges fairly those who continue to walk in darkness they will be judged if they do not turn from there sin.Hopefully they will if God wasnt merciful we all would have been condemned praise God for his son Jesus Christ.brentnz
There are, of course, many different agencies keeping up different phases of what we have defined as the
life of the
spirit, but they are not sufficient, even when taken all together, for they do not
give the dynamic of an organized faith.
Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy
spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not
live a christian
life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my
life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his
life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my
life and i
give all the praise back to God.brentnz
This requires a willing suspension of disbelief in our own language; knowledge and judgment and nuance, everything that makes the tongue a
living spirit, must
give way for a labored impossibility.
Andy says: «Be filled with the
Spirit» (Ephesians 5:18) was said corporately to a church not an individual, and was
given in the specific context of godly
living in relationship with others.
It says also somewhere in the NT that the first Adam became
living being, while the last Adam is
life -
giving Spirit.
For these, and those who have followed since, to respond to the
Spirit of the universe, which is God, is to
give up the security of habitual, customary and socially approved actions and to
live in terms of a radically new and open future.
Hence their «It is written, but I say unto you...» The virtuoso, however, is interested in the letter even though it has been neglected, domesticated, taken captive or muffled, for it houses the
spirit which
gives life.
One's participation in the adventure of playing, even
given the risk of injury or defeat, finds resolution at the end of the experience, and one re-enters ongoing
life in a new
spirit of thanksgiving and celebration.
The sacrament of baptism, the Catechism (1213) tells us, «is the basis of the whole Christian
life, the gateway to
life in the
Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which
gives access to the other sacraments.»
It was the Holy
Spirit who
gave her the courage to tend the wounded in wars, to enter the slums without a penny, to
live as the only white woman in a black enclave, to endure the failure of two apostolates and to begin again, to push herself beyond her limits to preach the Gospel of Love.
The
spirit learns a certain detachment while it
gives thanks for all the blessings of this
life.
Other methods may
give «religious» experiences, but only Christianity insists that the
life of the
spirit must be expressed within the terms of the present human predicament.
The Law society, in other words, has
given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its
spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the
spirit giveth
life».
Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is
giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the dead they came to
life that is the power of the holy
spirit and that power is in all of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz
Do you believe and trust in his Holy
Spirit, who
gives life to the people of God?
And this is how we know that he
lives in us: We know it by the
Spirit he
gave us.»