We have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding to lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the full knowledge of God....
19. God is asking you to step out in faith about something. Please seek wise counsel on this to ensure you don’t make unnecessary or unbiblical decisions in your zeal. For example, God could be encouraging you to quit your job, but NOT in your timing. Too often we forget to apply ...
Meaning:Here's another short Bible verse on love. God's love is eternal and it empowers humankind to love in God's likeness. Bible Verses About Marriage The bible verses about marriage we've gathered below may be a helpful starting point for understanding God's promises for marriage. Whethe...
Some of the most intimate moments of worshiping God recorded in Scripture took place in the wilderness. While hiding in the Desert of Judah and most likely on the run from his son Absalom, King David sang: “You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole be...
29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. (1 Kings 4:29) 23 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. 24 Now all the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisd...
s life until he himself had battled for some cause at risk to himself. So the man who seeks to bear the cross of Christ is on the path to sympathetic inner knowledge of the spirit of Christ. In our second chapter we called attention to the truth that approach to knowledge of God is ...
Father, the fountain of joy, love to see us full of joy. So he tells us to ask him for whatever we desire. This past winter I started asking God to help me love winter, and he helped me a lot. I’m not a skier yet, but I’m going to keep asking him to help me love ...
Later on in the passage, Paul famously says the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God. It probably struck me harder than most because I have invested more in education (= worldly wisdom) than most. What we build spans many segments of life but, since money is what I studied and ...
The early Lingbao scriptures incorporate pluralistic gender discourses. On the one hand, the early Lingbao scriptures accept the social gender system of “differences between men and women” as the decision of all deities, and incorporate the “chastity” virtue of women advocated by Confucianism. ...
Why are you asking about this topic? Is it to persuade yourself and others that the punishment for disobedience wont be THAT bad? Have you ever been born again and baptized in God's Holy Spirit? The Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, "Abba, Father"? (Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6) I...