Who are you letting
speak into your life about your business?
As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to
speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.
Not until they decided to follow Jesus did those words speak to them, or we might say not until then did God use those words to
speak into their lives.
While Jack was staunchly Republican (he referred to success as «Reagan - ing» and Obama as «your President»), and dizzyingly wealthy, he still managed to
speak into the lives of his generally progressive, often slovenly, always financially strapped crew.
It is not a way that leaves room for the Holy Spirit to
speak into our lives through anyone He so chooses.
Undoubtedly God uses other writings, events, people and circumstances to also
speak into our lives.
God
speaks into our lives in lots of different ways, but we need to remember that while God's revelation is pure, we are not.
Who is
speaking into your life?
It is very important that you pick only the best and wisest teachers to
speak into your life.
Far too many Christians think they've got it all figured out, and they don't need anybody to teach them, or correct them, or
speak into their life.
You could be capable of so much more if there were no objective morality
speaking into your life.
Try as I might, and despite all the people
speaking into my life (and even the still small voice of God), I find it extremely difficult to believe something other than what I have believed my entire life.
So say those who
speak into my life.
Are you open, in your heart of hearts, to having
him speak into your life?
I think what I found the hardest was: when people felt they had «the right
speak into your life when it was ABSOLUTELY none of their business!
A funny thing happened at the latest Plattsburgh Common Council session: the meeting ended, but the mayor kept
speaking into a live microphone.
My years of experience has taught me that most couples desire direction and someone that can
speak into their lives.
It is a privilege that people allow me to
speak into their lives and be a part of their journey to success.
Life can be very difficult and I have mentors that
speak into my life too — we are all helping each other; the Lord says, «Without good direction people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.»
It really is an invitation for them to
speak into our lives.
I love how he takes humble people to
speak into the lives of others and thrusts them into the limelight to shine for him.
Not exact matches
We've turned it
into a medical act, sterilized it and separated it from it from
life,» said Hebb,
speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif. on Tuesday.
You can choose to associate primarily with fellow expats,
speaking mostly English and easing your way
into your new
life in Mazatlán aided by people like you who've already made the move.
It's here you can dig deep
into the speaker's repertoire, view
live samples of their
speaking, and check the overall background of their expertise.
The Wall Street Journal in August
spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight
into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of
life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»
If we were ever able to look outside of Acts 2 to understand true biblical community, we would know how to
speak into one another's
lives about where we are running from God.
They need a believer that can hear the Holy Spirit's advice and thought; that can share from their own past with vulnerability and nakedness; and that can
speak / write to the heart - themes that keep the hearer from experiencing the freedom in Christ: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, patience, and self - control — the amazing freedom that mixes all those fruits of the Spirit
into an incredible
life.
In every office, there is someone who needs to know the love of Jesus, who needs to hear the message of the Cross, who needs someone like you to
speak truth and
life into their circumstance.
As Christians, we believe that the truth is freeing, not only truth as in the person of Jesus Christ, but also the truth when
spoken into the rest of our
lives.
As well, we remember that we have been blessed in the past with the gift of prophecy, that is,
speaking the truth and
speaking compassionately and candidly
into people's
lives with words of hope, courage and love.
The proof is in the pudding so to
speak, since man was created by God in His image, there is within every person the knowledge of God.Standard equipment.In order to become an atheist you first have to lie yourself past your inner knowledge of God.You have to ignore your
life, your spirit, your environment and the whole of creation.That takes a lot of lying to oneself, and you have to buy
into a lot more lies to get there.This is not made up, it is a part of the process that ultimately allows the created to deny the creator, God.Deep down every atheist knows they are a liar, but as with any repeated sin the suppressed truth gets farther away, and harder to recognize.God bless
The body of Christ can be the hands and feet of Jesus,
speaking grace, truth and hope
into our
lives at times when we need it most.
That movie, for all it's exhilarating presentation of youthful
life on the road as you experience those who make music which can
speak to large audiences, is nonetheless all about how you ought to get sucked
into the rock «n roll way of
life (albeit eschewing the drugs and sex part of it) because somehow rock «n roll is supposedly important.
This gets
into philosophy - of - law issues, of course, but even some imaginable judicially restrained economic - autonomy - is - Locke's - teaching scholars (i.e., really none of the libertarian con - law scholars I know of) would be advocating a way of
life, and a pattern of regular legislation, that centered one's practice of liberty upon, well, business - man, or to
speak Republic book VIII, oligarchic - man, accomplishments.
Radio would be the most wonderful means of communication imaginable in public
life, a huge linked system — that is to say, it would be such if it were capable not only of transmitting but of receiving, of allowing the listener not only to hear but to
speak, and did not isolate him but brought him
into contact.
Death and
life is in the power of the tongue, so anything we
speak comes
into being.
And
into their
lives and over their
lives, the
spoken words: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, I baptize you.
Through this revelation, therefore, the invisible God out of the abundance of His love
speaks to men as friends and
lives among them, so that He may invite and take them
into fellowship with Himself.
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spoken,
life - affirming man when he ventures
into that great bourne called The Beltway» that is the (probably unintended) theme of the....
Early cosmologies also pictured the cosmos relative to the human observer, as we continue to do when we
speak of sending a rocket «upward»
into space or refer to Australians as
living «down under.»
His word from the Lord
spoke into the chaos and confusion of a people who had suffered not only a disruption of
life, but also a disrupted understanding of God.
One of these that remains in my memory was a time when this simple man, who complained to his confessor that he does not know how to
speak, talked late
into the night about the nature of God and indeed what
life with God is.
The God that
spoke the universe
into existence breathed
life into a clump of dirt.
Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people
into commodities, and I believe Christians can
speak into that culture in a unique,
life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.
In his Restoration Therapy model, he lays out four simple steps to help people create change, and it is a great example of self - talk, which is the practice of
speaking truth
into your
life.
Or as I like to call it,
speaking truth
into your
life.
Whether it's the athlete on the free throw line
speaking truth to overcome the fear of missing the shot, the business executive repeating a helpful mantra before they walk
into a heated situation or a girlfriend repeating how worthy she is so that she can muster the courage to end an abusive relationship, we all practice a form of self - talk in our
lives that helps us overcome the negative messaging we carry.
But God has been
speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them
into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world in which they
live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.
But this is what is happening — whether it's right in our own homes or halfway around the world in Nigeria — and so we learn to obey the sadness and
live into the Gospel in the midst of it, to
speak the truth.
At Cana Christ, the
living Word,
spoke and people did his bidding, and the water turned
into wine because the people had done what he told them.