Sentences with phrase «through fear of god»

That control is accomplished through fear of God's retribution on sinners.

«It is only through the fear of God, love for one another and commitment to peaceful living that we can collectively confront our challenges as a nation and build the Nigeria of our dreams,» Fayemi added.

Only through the fear of God does man enter so deep into the love of God that he can not again be cast out of it.

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I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

If anyone has ever traveled through the bible belt in the US you will see some of the most ignorant god fearing people on earth.

In my opinion, and the opinion of many others, religion is nothing more than a tool, created by mankind (not suggested by god) thousands of years ago to do nothing more than control people through force and fear.

its not sad, it might be scary for you to believe things just are but at least we do not go through life doing good out of fear of god, we do not go through life thinking the after life will be better.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

We can break the cycle of fear, grow through our suffering, and finally learn how to fully rely on God's promises of protection and peace.

Through a failure to grasp the exact nature of this power newly bestowed on all who put their confidence in God — a failure due either to a hesitation in face of what seems to us so unlikely or to a fear of falling into illuminism — many Christians neglect this earthly aspect of the promises of the Master, or at least do not give themselves to it with that complete hardihood which he nevertheless never tires of asking of us, if only we have ears to hear him.

Through God's graciousness, both Sarah and Hagar are blessed despite the fear they face — Ishmael does become the father of a nation, and lo and behold, Abraham becomes the progenitor of both Jews and Arabs.

There is still a fear of the Lord we live under today, but there is also an intimacy and friendship we can have with God through Jesus Christ that was never before available to God's people.

The «fear of God» is the essence of «holy insecurity,» for «it comes when our existence becomes incomprehensible and uncanny, when all security is shattered through the mystery.»

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part of life, as part of holiness, as part even of God.

Now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness to men, faith, and the expectation of the future given to us by the Father himself through the Crucified One.»

Ya, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we must fear no evil for God is with us.

The glory and the holiness of the God of Mount Sinai calls forth in the Covenant people awe, wonder, and fear, which is expressed, finally, in their obedience to those principles through which God's presence is seen in human life, those principles through which life, love, and the fullness of God's creation are finally achieved.

Perhaps the alternative (control through shame and fear) is so toxic that the risk of freedom — like life spilling all over the floor — is infinitely preferable to the heart of God.

This too shall pass... in the form of dung, gas, sands through the hourglass, but Beck and those who make a buck off someone else's fear, faith, lack of fear, lack of faith, etc. will be with us to the last nanosecond of time, because what God in His or Her right omnipotent mind would want to listen to a ponitificating brat like Beck banging his gums in the back seat ad nauseum ad infinitum?

This enormously transforms his perspective upon the present life, less through hope of future reward or fear of punishment than through a sense of the enhanced worthfulness of the present as preparatory to eternal life in the presence of God.

Of course, the very best thing we can do in response to any sort of fear or hate or stigmatization is to preach the gospel like crazy, to spread the good new that, through Christ, God is making all things new and the Kingdom of Heaven is open to all who long for iOf course, the very best thing we can do in response to any sort of fear or hate or stigmatization is to preach the gospel like crazy, to spread the good new that, through Christ, God is making all things new and the Kingdom of Heaven is open to all who long for iof fear or hate or stigmatization is to preach the gospel like crazy, to spread the good new that, through Christ, God is making all things new and the Kingdom of Heaven is open to all who long for iof Heaven is open to all who long for it.

Somewhere in the formative and oh - so - tacky»80s and»90s, a message spread through Christian bookstores (R.I.P.), pulpits, youth groups, and all the nooks and crannies of God - fearing culture.

As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched - out day of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak of wonder, color and tomb - bursting newborn life.

Looking in a small and by no means complete concordance I find one hundred and sixteen references to fear and to what God does for the fearful, besides innumerable others that speak of rest in God and deliverance through his almighty power.

Jeremy i think satanic forces is more likely in that particular storm with Jesus and his disciples in the boat that was to test his disciples faith and they failed the test.Jesus rebuked the storm there was a power that was out to destroy them why else would he rebuke it maybe he was waiting foir them to rebuke it themselves they had prayed for people and seen healing they had commanded evil spirit to come out of people so they were aware of the power of God.Yet they were in fear of there lives faithless and afriad.Paul on his way to rome was caught in a storm and through an angel paul was told many would die Paul interceeded for the crew and lives on board and God promised that all would be spared.Paul had warned them before the voyage that it would end in disaster but they did not listen.Satan wasnt happy with that plan because he had hoped to kill as many people as possible there was over 300 souls on board and many had been expected to die.So satan attempted to kill Paul and he was bitten by a snake but satan is no match for Jesus Christ he has been defeated and so Paul lived and continued to preach the gospel was many being saved.brentnz

Thus, when Paul found himself in prison, his mind turned not to queries concerning the justice of his being there, but to the uses to which his imprisonment could be positively put: «Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel; so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole pretorian guard, and to all the rest; and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.»

I have no fear of God, because I simply can not worship something that a) isn't there, and b) is determined to make people «love» them through a fear of what they might be put through if they don't.

Derek N. Stavem writes about the fear and uncertainty of job hunting — and the comfort of knowing God is with you through it.

Faith through Fear demands that you worship not just one particular god, but ALL gods — because you likewise can't know if their version of the afterlife is true.

First, Divine Omnipotence: God creates and shapes us through the process of evolution: how can we suppose, or fear, that He will arbitrarily interfere with the very means whereby He fulfills His purpose?

Indeed, to invoke the separation between religion and politics in order to uphold this sort of Platonic dualism is to suggest that human beings somehow belong to the powers that be, that is, they are at the mercy of political authorities who can do what they please with them without any fear of rebuke from God through the prophetic ministry of the Church.

For people isolated by stigma and fear, it's powerful to hear an acknowledgement that this kind of suffering exists, that it doesn't mean God has abandoned them, and that people in the church might be willing to walk through it with them.

The god I know from the Bible is an abusive jerk who rules through fear and intimidation, and I am glad that I have nothing more to do with him — and I'm even happier that I've decided to return to the old ways of my ancestors, because at least we Heathens aren't afraid of science (and unlike the Talibangelicals, we freely admit that our story of creation is a myth).

He realizes with fear and dread that in persecuting the followers of Jesus he is persecuting Jesus and, through him, almighty God.

There, understanding God was often identified with a «personal knowledge» of God that came, not so much through any particular affection such as love, but rather through the very intensity of one's emotions, intensity so great that in the surge of emotion distinctions between love, fear, guilt and joy blurred entirely.

If God is active in history through the Incarnation of Jesus of his own historical context, then how do we celebrate God's presence and participation in our living situations, in our search for meaning, in our hopes and fears, and in our anguishes and aspirations?

A child misbehaving (acting foolishly) = (perception) that parents aren't correcting child and A child misbehaving (acting foolishly) = judgment not from God (the only One equipped to judge) but from others in faith community and Judgment from others = not good feeling then not good feeling = fear of other's assessment of parenting choices and then fear of opinions of others = parenting from a place of fear of man rather than leadership from God through His Word and the movement of His Spirit within

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We will follow through with sincerity, the fear of God, and love for all our members.

Memorize / meditate on Matthew 6:33 - 34 Watch: http://citycollective.org/blog/2013/7/12/kingdom-life-in-contested-space Worries and fears: Each morning make a list of the worries and fears that go through your head and surrender them to God.

Ta — He is just too good in the sequence where the god - fearing bachelor he plays (almost) gets seduced by a girl he meets through an online dating site as part of the investigation.

The story is disclosed in an extremely low - pace through a flawed screenplay that uses many ellipsis and poor art decoration, but beautifully raises philosophical questions about love, death, understanding, communication, fear for the unknown, origin of life, and might be the Paradise or even God.

L'il Ze, «City of God» Leandro Firmino portrayed this kingpin who ran his Brazillian slum through fear and intimidation.

In the midst of all this, God intends that your life be filled with singing, not with fear, doubt, and confusion.Songs for Your Path guides you on a 180 - day journey through the Book of Psalms.

«Making Sense Out Of Life» is a timely book to help people successfully navigate through those inevitable times when life hits rough waters — a job crisis, divorce, the loss of a loved one, fears and insecurities from the past, failing health, complicated relationships — and God seems strangely silenOf Life» is a timely book to help people successfully navigate through those inevitable times when life hits rough waters — a job crisis, divorce, the loss of a loved one, fears and insecurities from the past, failing health, complicated relationships — and God seems strangely silenof a loved one, fears and insecurities from the past, failing health, complicated relationships — and God seems strangely silent.

God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural fluids.»

I imagine this is how many of God's children feel after they are adopted into His Kingdom — just in awe that a Father — Abba — could possibly love them so much and wanting to make sure that He will never leave them or «throw them away» or «put them out in the dark» — our past is often where Satan lurks in the shadows but the more we grow in our walk with our Daddy the more those shadows are brought to light and those fears are dispelled... I am so thankful for your last sentence in your blog — that you have never felt so much responsibility to pour Love and Truth into your son — exactly what's Sonny needs to break through those fears and doubts — glad you shared your heart!