I believe it is
what God gifted me for, and when I am engaged in this work, I feel His pleasure.
Not exact matches
Women are stepping into their
God - given
gifts to make money doing
what they love!
Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a
gift from
God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do
what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.
So this is
what I got from reading this article:
god is all everything but can't or won't stop bad things from happening... he's ok with suffering and will very generously comfort us from the suffering that he provides, all you have to do to receive this
gift of comfort is to live with the suffering until the day you die.
Christians, on the other hand, believe that we will be in the presence of
God the Father and Jesus Christ solely by our faith in Christ and
what He alone did by dying on the cross and rising again on the third day, so we believe it is a free
gift of
God and it doesn't just come after all we can do as Mormons believe.
And when you can come to terms with
what your dominant intelligence center is, the first
gift — the obvious
gift of that is that you are now more capable of trusting your
God - given, innate tools for discernment.
It is the sacrament in which the Church is most truly
what she is, the people of
God being daily formed into the body of Christ through the
gift of the Lord's body and blood.
The people of Sodom & Gomorrah and the others you mentioned were ALL WARNED beforehand to stop their evil ways and to STOP abusing
God's
gift of life... they ignored the warnings and
God took back
what He had given them in the first place.
Maybe you don't think that you have been answered, but I think you have been in ways that you don't fully understand, Faith is a
gift from
God but not all of us will be given that
gift, pray for the
gift of true faith and let's see
what happens.
What is the balance, if any, of a pastor having a «vision» for the church as though
God only speaks through him and the team fulfills that vision with their
gifts and abilities, and with the church working together under the direction of elderS (plural) for all people to use their
gifts and abilities for
God's vision for all people?
Location and time means nothing as all is a
gift to bring out that which is Christ like, to enhance that which is Christ like setting the stage for
what is an eternal glory that we call
God.
And if we believe the promise, if we believe
what God has said, if we believe in Jesus for eternal life, then we have received the free
gift of grace.
What a
gift of life and celebration to be united with the Triune
God.
Like me, many choose to live out
what the Church has always taught about sex, namely that it is a good
gift from
God that is only for marriage between a woman and a man.
I simply have a
gift that is only receiving
what God allows, wither it be from Satan, or a ministering spirit, or the Holy Spirit.
The more we listen to
God, and the more we learn about how he does answer our prayers and guide our lives, we learn more about
what to ask for, how to use his
gifts, and how to trust him through good or bad times.
Moreover,
God, who alone sees all things and
what is necessary, treats us as the unique individuals He created us to be; not a «one size fits all» approach, and He answers prayers and gives
gifts on that basis, not simply on whether or not they are a believer.
This then leads us to understand
what Paul is referring to when he says «it is the
gift of
God» in Ephesians 2:8.
He modifies
what he wrote in Ephesians 2:5 by pointing out four additional things about this life which we received by the grace of
God: He says this life is also (1) through faith, (2) is not of yourselves, (4) it is a
gift of
God, and (3) is not by works.
With honor and high regard for men and women alike, it beautifully portrays the wonder of
what can happen when we take our places together and walk out the
gifts and callings that
God has placed within us as His Church.
So when Paul says «and that... is the
gift of
God,» to
what is he referring?
The more we listen to
God, and the more we learn about how he does answer our prayers and guide our lives, the more we learn more about
what to ask for, how to use his
gifts, and how to trust him through good or bad times.
I see the salvation process as part coming to an awareness of
what you already are, created in the image of
God or
what some may call being born of the Spirit and given the
gift of faith.
[9] It was a gruesome
gift to receive, but was a good way to remind each other
what God had done for them.
When creatures who are
gifted as the image and likeness of
God misuse love, corrupting
what God made good, then the love of
God goes to them to heal them.
How I respond shares in determining just
what new
gift God can give me.
This
gift above all others shows
what God is really like.
I give to you
what I give to no one else, and that is my seed, my procreative power, which, united to your seed, can incarnate our love, take on flesh that will be the living fruit of our love, the proof also that we want our love to be a
gift to
God and to the future.1 I have expanded on this at length elsewhere.2 Holding to our present topic, let us look a bit more closely at those issues of justice involved in this divine plan of the union of man and woman in marriage.
They were doing
what God had spiritually
gifted them to do, and if they attended North Valley Alliance Church, they would say I am not doing
what they think a church should do.
MR: Well I think no matter
what you're called to do, you are called to use your opportunities and the
gifts to bring glory to
God.
This function of the will, though it is the responsibility of a person, is not meritorious in any way, for faith is not a work (Rom 4:5), but is simply being persuaded or convinced about
what is true, which, in the case of eternal life, is being persuaded that eternal life is the free
gift of
God to all who believe in Jesus for it.
If women are celebrated, empowered and given freedom to exercise their
gifts in leadership as
God intends, imagine
what it could do for the global Church —
God's kingdom on Earth as He intended — a glorious, united and beautifully vibrant people.
Oh,
what a waste of
God's
gift of life!
For holiness is not the world's
gift, but
God's; and
what it calls for is faithful response.
God, give us
what we need in order to enjoy the
gift of life.
Now if personal freedom is basically a unique
gift of
God,
what we call spirituality must have an inner connection with it.
If there is an absolute in the Christian faith, it is not
what is demanded of Christians but
what is offered to them, which is the
gift of
God's grace in and through Jesus Christ.
It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «
God can not be contained within reason, because
what he does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation of the revelatory act / reality is signaled by the existential realization that
God's «unnecessitated» love for us as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «
God's
gift of Himself.»
If one lets the no - inherent - free - will interpretation of the less than 0.5 % of the Scriptures set the precedence on
what the word of
God says about man's free will, then a person is forced to do some absurd reasoning / interpretation of the majority of scriptures that imply that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject
God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and
gifts.
As with Murray and those who insist that the founders «built better than they knew,»
what the founders may have meant is less significant than
what they actually gave us and how that
gift was destined to be received in an emerging culture infused with voluntaristic, nominalist, and mechanistic assumptions about
God and nature.
Those people of
God, so
gifted at sliding into amnesia and forgetting their story and purpose, were summoned together frequently and inconveniently, to help them to recall
what was most important.
i do nt know wheather you are still living in Law or Grace, but thats
what i encourage you to find out, cause nothing seem to make since, when your still trying to live under the Law, you must except the free
gift of righteousness by grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank
God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and Hebews
Neville great quote i read that he was an atheist from
what i understand he certainly had issues with the established church and it seems that he may have had some kind of faith in
God he certainly had a
gift for writing..
Faith in
God is
what lets us fully appreciate the
gifts we receive.
So
what you're saying here is that non-Christians have not been given
God's
gift of faith, yes?
Their experience of adoption has given the Robertses a special understanding or
what it is like to receive
God's
gift of grace in Jesus Christ.
This is the
gift that an all powerful, loving and wise
God bestows upon us...
What we do with this
gift of choice is up to us, will you follow, trust and love or pull away, and withdraw?
However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of
God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just
God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know
what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of
God as that by which the just man lives by the
gift of
God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6
What you don't get, Prissy, is that the composer you're blathering and the music he wrote were wonderful not because of
god or belief, but because Barber was a
gifted musician.
the wages of sin is DEATH but the
gift of
God is ETERNAL LIFE thru Jesus Christ our LORD... no matter
what schemes or plans man comes up with to avoid the TRUTH, TRUTH will always will be TRUTH, you can't change TRUTH and because JESUS is true and his word is true and is a
God that can't lie nor is he the son of man to repent then that means unless you repent you shall all likewise perish Luke 13:5..