Finding someone who shares your religious beliefs and wants to live the type
of godly life that you are seeking can be difficult in a secular world.
Her stories are particularly difficult for the secular «good man,» who will not find in them many examples
of the godly life, but who will be continually challenged to define and redefine his conception of goodness.
It is measured by the quality
of godly life a «recovered» and «delivered» person is actually enjoying in sobriety — individually, with his family, with his job, with his business, with his schools and churches, with his community, and in fellowship with his Creator.
The normal perception
of the godly life is of persons taking thought for doing good in order that they may prosper.
The Epistle reading in I Timothy 2:1 - 8 speaks of the cessation of anger and quarreling as marks
of the godly life.
«Are we,» I asked, «supposed to hold ourselves up as an example
of the Godly life?
I was a churchy person, and I spent my life judging those who did not measure up to my standards
of Godly living.
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.
The first nine chapters describe how wisdom works in general, but the proverbs in chapter ten concern the nuts and bolts
of godly living.
Not exact matches
We are
of the
Godly and in cosmological securities are we held in bondages ever formed into celestial beings thru the atomized realms
of variations made manifested into the cellular commodities
of the
living realms
of cosmological wonders.
This tells us that those who
live godly in Jesus have the protection
of Holy angels and nothing can hurt them unless God especially allows.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains
of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald
of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world
of the ungodly; if by turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example
of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct
of the wicked (for as that righteous man
lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the
godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day
of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust
of defiling passion and despise authority.
God and all
of Godliness Gods dwells inside all God's
living things
of God's celestial
Godly reckoning upon a
Godly realm
of atomized bullshiit so small, we
Godly gods will never wholly know with Godlike certainty the true
Godly realms
of the
Godly Godlike Godliness.
For the King
of all the Gods created by GOD is the God Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior and Redeemer
of godly men, whose rigtheousness in Word and / or in Deeds will bring to them an abundancy
of living many
lives within the mainframes
of the eternal 1st Domain, that is called by us as being the Atomic Cosmos.
Repentance should bring about the blotting out
of our sin (Acts 3:19) but since Christ hadn't died or risen yet when Judas killed himself, maybe it was a
godly repentance — maybe he was offering his
life to God — we don't know whether his suicide was in repentant hope & some sort
of ill - guided atoning effort, or the result
of depression, selfish pride, or whatever else...
These words are revelations
of my Faith as to my
Godly understandings regarding the Kingdom Domains
of God, his Sons and his Daughters and all forms and mannerisms
of Life - ever - lasting principles and principalities
of progressives!
I thank the powers
of the
Godly ordained to have made my sub-microbial celestially built body and the social generalist ambiances leavening for giving me an afforded
life to be so
lived out upon an Omni - celestial portion
of planetary worldly passions felt by self - loathing critiques
of renounced meager reckoning!
Living in the opposite country from the illusive and idyllic Village where I was sure all
of my friends» children were being raised by content mommies who were far more
Godly than me.
God maintains all
life thru God
living within cellular establishments
of cohesiveness for without
Godly congenial cohesions cellular
life would never have come into being.
HUNDREDS
of prophecies precisely fulfilled... attesting to the divine /
godly nature
of the Bible... including the fall
of Jerusalem, Solomon's kingdom, the scattering
of the Jews abroad, the formation
of the nation
of Israel in 1948, the Babylonian exile, the rebuilding
of Jerusalem, the falling again
of Jerusalem in 90AD... oh yeah... and over 300 prophecies fulfilled EXACTLY by the
life of Jesus.
The event will include teaching on how Christians can overcome the pull
of sin and
live godly lives in today's world.
If the non-believer who is proud, fully desiring, and un-receptive
of practicing their sin
of homosexuality and they love being around the believer then that would make me question what's wrong with that believer because the scripture says; «Indeed, all who desire to
live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted — 2 Timothy 3:12, No proudly practicing sinner
of any kind will stay with a believer very long just ask Liz
There is a more
godly way
of life available.
Personally, the existence
of the death penalty, which is supported by most «
godly» people leads me to believe that we humans are just one more animal species
living in a godless jungle, although having ruled out the existence
of God, I can't yet rule out the existence
of Satan.
The day the GOP comes back to any combination
of these
Godly Principles, will be the day we allow the GOP back into our
lives.
Who else can the sowers be but
of the family
of God who all do
live deeply inside our bodies which are but
godly buildings sown and grown by all
of God's families?
When the government takes my money and distributes it in a manner that is destructive to human
life — that is not a
godly use
of the resources that God has given me.
We, as a race
of living godheads tend to forget where from we were built and by whose hands our bodies
of Godly structured buildings did lay one's foundation while in the womb.
If God exists in everything and everyone, if the world and everything it holds is sacred, then we have no choice but to find and lift up the
godly sparks in all
of life.
And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, that we may hereafter
live a
godly, righteous, and sober
life; to the glory
of thy holy name.
All Scholars Shall
Live Religious,
Godly and Blameless
Lives according to the Rules
of Gods Word, diligently Reading the holy Scriptures the Fountain
of Light and Truth; and constantly attend upon all the Duties
of Religion both in Publick and Secret.
And in the eye
of the beholder we are talking
of good people leading
godly lives.
Rather than choosing between sinful - but - scrumptious indulgence on the one hand and
godly - but - tiresome obedience on the other, the challenge is to select between enslavement to unwholesome and distasteful foods — bondage to Boston cream pie is one author's illustration — and deliverance into the possibility
of living a truly energetic, salubrious and meaningful existence.
Our sense
of wickedness is without repentance, our sorrow over it is not a
godly sorrow leading to
life, but cynical and accepting, leading to death.
One can appeal to the Bible if one wants to make a case for this kind
of way
of picturing the good - read «
godly» -
life.
Your faith may well be an undying principle
of conjuring desires but your rumors
of the messiah returning will not lift up our civilizations desires to be on our own wanton ways for
living our generational based afflictions in mindful aspirations without any
godly influences derailing our commonwealths» visions.
It is when, through our
life life - long journey with Him, through our falls and rises, we become a refined «we», i.e. more
Godly, or in Paul's letter, more and more conformed in the image
of the Firstborn, our Lord Jesus (not becoming like him).
Despite my temptation to condemn such music immediately for its ugly perversity, a moment's reflection reveals that the issue is much more complex than declaring an entire genre off limits because the
lives of its artists aren't
godly, or because many
of the songs contain profanity.
Are we not generationally reinvigorated thru conceptualizations embarking momentums
of atomized sequential isms within DNA nomenclatures to become yet another scaffolding building wherein the Gods take up new residencies for their own
Godly generational families to so
live out their
lives?
They don't need you interpreting the meaning
of life for them so you can feel all important and
godly.
They have the assurance
of forgiveness from almighty God, they strive to
live a
godly life based on this assurance.
Clearly, none
of us are perfect, but those positive characteristics that have resulted from esteeming
godly things in our
lives can, to our shock and dismay, end up being despised by a person that we thought might be the «right» person for us.
The power
of godly men is wrought through the redemptive work
of Christ in our hearts and
lives.
I totally agree, Matthew, and wish I knew enough Greek to discern the «works»
of the Law that Paul rejected as being necessary for salvation and the «works»
of the Spirt (which I prefer to call the good and
Godly deeds), that John claimed were essential for kingdom
living.
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains
of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one
of eight people, a preacher
of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world
of the ungodly; and turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would
live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct
of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the
godly out
of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day
of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust
of uncleanness and despise authority.
The big issue then is whether admission
of guilt is clear and unequivocal, remorse and repentance is genuine and sincere, and whether sufficient time is given for reflection, counselling and new
godly patterns
of living to grow.
The Collect for the Day, by the very amplitude
of the gift prayed for, makes clear that the deed
of God's power in the Resurrection
of Jesus Christ is in a continuum
of grace whose endless field
of operation is nothing less than the restoration
of human
life to its
Godly intention.
Likewise, the mockeries
of these godless and ungodly against the goodly who do themselves believe upon
godly importance the goodly ones may well
live on to pass all and onto every generation's aged continuations.
I remember getting quite upset at hearing this since some
of the most
godly people I know and have ministered with
live in rural settings.
Such
Godly domains are upon all
life's insides within a realm
of such small vestiges that our only way to get back into these very small kingdom domains if by dying!