Sentences with phrase «of a mustard seed god»

It says with the faith of a mustard seed God can heal all things, if he chooses, but God does nt always choose to bestow upon us what we want.

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Be it the lilies of the field, the mustard seed or the vineyard, nature often provides the field of metaphors with which Jesus describes the life of discipleship and God's providence.

Like the seeds which fell on the good soil and brought forth abundant harvest, like the mustard seed, though small, which grows into a big bush, the kingdom of God will not fail.

It is absurd, and a misuse and misunderstanding of how the Word of God is written, to try to prove an error in the Word of God by finding a seed smaller than a mustard seed.

Jesus often spoke of the Kingdom of God in small ways: a seed that grows to a mighty oak, a mustard seed of faith, a bit of yeast that causes the whole loaf to rise.

For the Kingdom of God as well as for evangelisation, the instrument and vehicle of the Kingdom of God, the parable of the grain of mustard seed [Mk 4:31 - 32] is always valid.»

Even if the parables of the mustard - seed and the leaven really applied originally to the Kingdom of God, they were certainly not intended to denote the «natural» growth of the Kingdom, but were meant to show how inescapable will be its coming, however easily ignored or misinterpreted may be the signs of its coming which are conspicuous in the activity of Jesus.

Jesus constantly modeled that the small things, the unimportant people, the little children, the cup of cold water, the tiny mustard seed, the one act of faith, the shameful, the foolish, and the insignificant,... these are the things that mattered to God and where God was most at work.

Yes, the Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed.

I learned when i studied the Bible, and met a man that taught religious studies at Penn.State Remember, God loves you, even with faith as little as the size of a mustard seed!!

The parable of the mustard seed in verses 30 - 32 has two points: (1) just as the tiny mustard seed can grow (in the Mediterranean area) into a fairly tall tree, so the humble start of the kingdom of God does not preclude a victorious ending; (2) the kingdom is now present, and all nations and peoples («birds of the air» was a phrase used by the rabbis to mean all people, including Gentiles) may now partake of it.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

Some of the parables are introduced with words such as, «The Kingdom of God is like...» as in the case of the Seed Growing on its Own, the Mustard Seed, and the Leaven, 2 while others have used the idea without explicit use of the term.

The way Chance uses reminds us of the value of sharing our stories, telling others the ways in which we have hidden from God, and how we came to embrace «faith of pumpkin seed - size mustard seed.»

The Kingdom of God starts small, a grain of wheat, a mustard seed, a leaven in the loaf.

The leaven is paired with the mustard seed as an assurance of the growth of the church and the spread of the gospel through witness to and acceptance of God's kingly rule.

«Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.»

It could become this, on reflection, but the fact is that faith is used absolutely in the characteristic «Your faith has saved you», or «faith as a grain of mustard seed...» It is not there further defined as faith in God, in Jesus, in the good news, as it is in the characteristic reformulations in the tradition, for example Mark 1.15: `... believe in the gospel».

Faith here is clearly trust, in this instance in God's provisioning, and the «faith as a grain of mustard seed» in the teaching of Jesus would seem to be an allusion to some such saying as this one.

With God all things are possible, and if you pray that God makes it impossible for you to sin in this present life (by the power of the Holy Spirit), and you believe that you have received it (even if for a moment aka as small as a mustard seed), whether before or after you prayed for it, it will be yours.

It is much more inplausible, in my opinion, that a god just sprung up (out of a mustard seed according to the bible).

This is partly why Jesus spoke of giving a cup of cold water in His name (Matt 10:42) and liked the Kingdom of God to a mustard seed (Matt 13; 31 - 32).

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