Sentences with phrase «with power from on high»

In light of this pattern, we can appreciate that the shed blood of Christ, the «Lamb of God,» made permanent atonement for mankind, and also made it possible for people to be ``... clothed with power from on high» (Luke 24:49).

And we must urgently pray to be filled with the spirit of God, for only when we are endowed with power from on high will we be what God has called us to be and do what he has called us to do.

On that day, you were, in the words of today's gospel, «clothed with power from on high.»

Stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.»

The Catechism teaches that «like Baptism, which it completes, confirmation is given only once, for it too imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark, the «character» which is the sign that Jesus Christ has marked a Christian with the seal of his Spirit by clothing him with power from on high so that he may be his witness».20 Baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist are seen as forming a unity (CCC 1306).

In the midst of the clashes of the principalities and powers of the present age, you have been «clothed with power from on high» to bear witness to the One who was and is and is to be.

And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high.»