Example sentences of "god [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 2 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
| 3 | God hates it above all things . |
| 4 | ‘ God fulfils himself in many ways ’ — because he does take history seriously . |
| 5 | The third degree is not felt to be acquired by effort but given by grace , " God gyfes it til wham he wil , bot noght withouten grete grace comand before " ( 8.106.75 – 6 ) . |
| 6 | Third , prayer in the light of the Bible and guided by the Holy Spirit will change me : change my attitudes , make me more like the person God wants me to be . |
| 7 | But you know if you wanted to talk about sanctification , as a for instance , that 's growing in grace and holiness , becoming more the person that God wants us to be . |
| 8 | He was joyful , because that is the way God wanted him to be , and because that is the way that God wants us to be . |
| 9 | God wants you to be so full of Jesus that you actually start acting like him . |
| 10 | And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on . |
| 11 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 12 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 13 | If the awe of God shatters our drive towards self-security , then the strongly growing desire towards closeness with God frees us from our drive towards self-fulfilment . |
| 14 | Confidence in God allows us to be gentle with others as we no longer struggle to assert our own plans and willpower over them . |
| 15 | God introduces us to our true selves , so that we come to recognize ourselves , and our God for the first time . |
| 16 | Desire for God prepares us for delight in God . |
| 17 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 18 | God reveals himself to us as personal in a very unique way . |
| 19 | They have to find a way of expressing their confidence that God reveals Himself through His activity in the world , without making Him into a person like ourselves . |
| 20 | In a similar way , the argument goes , God reveals Himself in particular events ( that may themselves be the actions of His agents , like Jesus of Nazareth or Mohammed ) but can never be reduced to them . |
| 21 | The spirit of God reveals it to him … ‘ |
| 22 | And neither bribe nor threat will budge him from the truth as God reveals it to him . |
| 23 | Cain kills Abel — it is a short step from rebellion to bloodshed — and God condemns him to a nomadic life , but provides protection against death . |
| 24 | The mere fact that people are convinced that freedom , for example , is a good thing , even that God desires it for us , does not make it more than wishful thinking . |
| 25 | Third , God guides us through the Scriptures . |
| 26 | Fourth , God guides us in prayer . |
| 27 | BELOW : In a parish , God calls us to be Church for one another . |
| 28 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 29 | God asks us for what we have , not what we do n't have . |
| 30 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |