Sentences with phrase «spirit of sacrifice»

I have to say, I love her spirit of sacrifice to be willing to do that.

They called on the people to observe the spirit of sacrifice and obedience.

As I join the good people of Ghana to wish our moslem brothers and sisters the best of the season, I will hasten to add that, the spirit of sacrifice, restitution and restoration to mankind and to the nation does not and should not end with the month of Ramadan; as the prophet of Islam, Mohammed (Peace be upon Him) said «patriotism is part of the faith in Allah».

We must continually strive as a people to replicate the spirit of sacrifice and discipline in our every day activities to help build our dear country, Ghana.

These include a heart for Christ alone, a mind transformed by the word, arms of love, knees for prayer, a voice to speak the good news and a spirit of sacrifice.

Not exact matches

What I am hearing from you is a passion to want to see the wives submit to husbands done on the light of initially husbands sacrificing for wives and then the wife being comfortable to submit in a spirit of mutual submission having an atmosphere of security and safety that has been created by the husband.

Like Luther, Lumen Gentium affirms the common priesthood of the faithful and grounds it in a shared participation of all believers in the one priesthood of Christ: «The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 - 10).

-- there is no «price» (again American Christian reference, not biblical); «his agents»: if you mean the Holy Spirit and / or Christ then since those are God then it's just the worship of God because you DESIRE to worship Him not as if there was anything any of us could offer that would be reciprocal for Christ's sacrifice.

Dear NoTags, Once the Mormon faith denies the Divinity of Christ, him being a created spirit brother of Satan, then the sacrifice on the cross necessarily can not cover 100 % of mankind's failings.

the idea of lent is to make a personal sacrifice in the spirit of jesus» 40 day fast.

Suddenly, in light of God's glory we feel quite insecure, remembrances of Christ's sacrifices demand quite unpleasurable thoughts, and the overwhelming presence of the Spirit leaves us trembling and acutely aware of our powerlessness.

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

The virtue of self - discipline features heavily in the New Testament; it's one of the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5, a key element of Paul's famous athletics metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9, and implicit in the idea of Christians as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1 - 2), «transformed by the renewal of your mind [s]» (ESV).

As Jephthah charged into battle with his countrymen behind him, filled with «the Spirit of the Lord» (Judges 11:29), he made a promise to God: «If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering» (v. 30).

Morally, and in terms of the life of the spirit, it requires the greatest sacrifice possible.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise (Psalm 51:16 - 17)--

Christ is the redeemer because he is the full actualization of kenotic energy; but the Creator, or the wholly alien and transcendent epiphany of Spirit, is the redeemed because an absolutely transcendent and sovereign God is finally the source of all that repressed energy which is transmuted in self - sacrifice.

Through the events that faith knows as the Incarnation and the Crucifixion, God empties himself of his sovereignty and transcendence, and not only does this kenotic sacrifice effect the dissolution of the opposition between Father and Son in the new epiphany of God as universal Spirit, but so likewise vanishes the opposition between God and the world.

And once we have truly placed our faith in Him (accepted His gracious gift of salvation through the sacrifice of Christ) the Holy Spirit indwells our hearts and holds us fast.

It is sometimes argued that the prophets were not seeking the abolition of the sacrifices, but only their reformation, so that they should become the expression of a true spirit of worship.

True love, of whatever kind, will take delight in all that is good, which means all that is of Christ in the Holy Spirit, which is why it finds its true home and its wellspring in the great offering of Love that is the Eucharistic Sacrifice.

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

The moment of dominance, prayed for, worked for, sacrificed for, by generations of the noblest spirits, marks the turning point where the blessing passes into the curse.

On Calvary, Jesus» voluntary sacrifice super-fulfills the vertical movement of the religions, and when he breathes the Holy Spirit into the future, he super-fulfills all the horizontal movement toward utopias.

The exceptional fidelity, self - sacrifice and affection, as well as the pain, grief and sorrow and the deep spiritual response to the suffering and bereavement that is being expressed, is a sign to the churches of the presence of the Spirit of love in these relationships.

By not taking the Son of God's sacrifice seriously we anger the spirit of grace.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise».

It builds a team spirit, a willingness to sacrifice oneself for a greater good: the welfare of the team.

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

(John 6:60), which I believe they did that, because it was challenging their thinking and they had to sacrifice many of the ways that they like to think and live, so it was easy to just leave Jesus, but people who are attuned to God's Holy Spirit to Jesus can actually embrace and zoom into God's mind.

Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

But, the point is, all 3 Persons of the Trinity, The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit, all agreed that the Sacrifice of Jesus's blood was the only way for sin to be forgiven, and for the debt to be paid for, so we didn't have to face the judgment that our sins deserve, an eternity in a lake of fire.

The Spirit of God is the only guarantee that we will have what it takes to love, to confess, to sacrifice, to give and to forgive one another.

His sacrifice also atoned for death of the spirit or being separated from God.

The following chapters explain how this understanding of Christ sheds light on the intra-relations of the Trinity, political theology, atonement and sacrifice, and the working of the Spirit in the world.

We need to show how Christ impacts on the whole of humanity: the Spirit is only ever given, to arouse the thirst for truth and goodness, because of Christ's Sacrifice at the centre of history.

And the spirit of giving is better represented by Santa than the Jesus of the Christian tales, since an omnipotent being sacrifices nothing by giving away or «dying».

The first year is death (shedding of the blood and sacrifice) the second day or the second thousand years is the revival though he himself is not seen because he is operating in apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers and evangelists (this was symbolized in him preaching to the lost souls or spirits imprisoned) then the third day represents the last 1000 years which signifies his second coming which he will appear and reign..

When the Prophet died he left a people who had learned to worship God, who had spiritual knowledge, cleanness of heart, a desire to seek justice, a wish to serve the people, the spirit of self - sacrifice; they were doers of good.

The apostles sent a letter to the Gentiles that included the following: «It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from se - xual immorality.

Remeber the sacrifice you made in sending Jesus the Messiah, remember the sinless life He led and the pain He bore for all of those who sinned and are so vary far, far away from you, living in darkness, blinded by the false gods of this world and the lying deceiving spirits that say man's reason is all there is in life.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

We must ask, however, whether with all the realism of the Reformers in their doctrine of vocation, they solved the problem of self - sacrifice in the spirit of agape.

James, you're not correct, reason being: When you truly believe in Christ's atoning sacrifice and trust in him, you're sealed with the Holy Spirit and you are guaranteed your inheritance (Ephesians 1:13) That causes you to respond to Christ's love by loving him in return and have the desire to follow him out of gratitude.

To deny God's wonderful gift to us is to deny the Holy Spirit and the sacrifice of Jesus.

That is why Christ's Sacrifice is the channel of the coming of the Holy Spirit, who is symbolised by the Blood - and - Water, that is, the living water, as Jesus had predicted (John 7:37 - 39, cf. 4:10).

The GRACE of GOD is our LORD's HOLY SPIRIT accepted by all who believes in our LORD's one and only SACRIFICE on the CROSS for all sins.

There is only one God (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - The Great I AM) and he is manifest in three distinct personages; God the Father who is the head and sits on the throne, The Son who is the creator of everything seen and unseen, the savior of mankind (the last sacrifice for sin) and redeemer of all the whole earth who is the only legitimate heir, and The Spirit who represents the very power of The Holy God.

It was laid on George Fox that these conventional customs were a lie and a sham, and the whole body of his followers thereupon renounced them, as a sacrifice to truth, and so that their acts and the spirit they professed might be more in accord.

It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sëxual immorality.