The greatest place ever seen in heaven or on earth is the Kingdom of God. God has given us a divine invitation to dwell in His Kingdom. Do we have a full understanding of what this means for us? Gaining understanding would be one of the wisest decisions we have ever made. So, what does having a divine invitation to the Kingdom of God mean for us? Firstly, this means that we have a personal, open invitation to the presence of God. In the Old Testament, we see that the priest had to wear certain garments to enter the tabernacle. They also had to continuously wash their hands, and go through different levels before they could even get to the Holy of Holies. They had to be able to get through the inner and outer court alive based on their purity. …show more content…
The invitation to His presence, His peace, and all that He has to offer? What things are holding you back? I challenge you today to make the wisest decision you can make and accept the invitation to make Christ your Lord and Savior and even if you have, to do it all over again as a rededication and commitment to be joined in heirship with Him. Reflect on ways that you have tried to drive yourself and may have made the wrong decision, how you may have allowed someone else to be your GPS or provide you with a map other than worship or the word and how it may have taken you off course…what effects did it have on your life? How can you assure that you will remain on the right track so that it doesn’t occur again? Accept the invitation to God, enter into His presence and He will help guide you when opportunity knocks, He will help you remove all negativity from your life, be who He has destined you to be and embrace the wonderful, incredible person that you are. He will help you grow in integrity and faithfulness, forgive and forget, choose relationships, experience pure joy and even teach you how to increase in faith rather than worrying. When you accept His invitation, God can restore your heart condition, assist you in turning from sin and dealing with pride, align the desires of your heart with his, grow up and most of all-WISE
Well I figured out Jesus is my moment of clarity. He 's the moment of clarity I dwell on. I still fight off bad days and angry thoughts but I have moments of clarity and that 's a start. I 've discovered that for me personally, my artistry and faith are one in the same. I used to fear my passions and where they might lead me but my grandmother once told me that I wasn 't allowed to let fear keep me from doing what I was supposed to be doing. That rings through my head every day. The presence of fear and lack of faith causes my art and passion to suffer. So I declare that I cling to my clarity and I will continue to cling to my clarity because sometimes I feel like an Alzheimer 's patient. I get confused and I stutter and I forget who and what I love. Luckily, I have people to remind me and take care of me and for that I am forever thankful. Thank you to the people that loved me and continue to love me through this. Thank you for believing in me when I didn 't believe in myself. Thank you for being part of my clarity and may the road rise to meet
listen and respond to the call of Jesus today. Through church. prayer, priests, and by fulfilling the sacraments we can be at one. with God at any time. To get a call would be to have such a strong faith that you want to drop everything to follow it.
I grew up in a home with a family that attend church weekly and was active in the church family. I knew about God and about His son but I never remember the story of salvation and the personal need for a savoir. As a teenager I walked away from the religion that I thought did not offer my anything. In my thirties, my husband was diagnosed with cancer and I immediately started my negotiations with God. Little did I know that He was not a negotiator but it was during this time in my life that I needed God more than He needed me. Since accepting the gift of God’s love, the salvation of a Savoir, and the renovation of my heart, I look to God for the path of my life. I share Gods truth through my career change to a Christian nob-profit that’s vision is to share God’s love to the community through the platform of pregnancy care and family services. Personally I have fulfilled God’s call to help the less fortunate by adopting a sibling group and participating and supporting mission trips to third world countries to support his children and missions there. My final piece of God’s plan I feel lead to complete is to volunteer my professional expertise and finances to work with a mission group that provides laboratory services to third world mission hospitals. I have done one trip for them and am currently planning a trip to Honduras in the new year. My day to
Another word for paradise is heaven. That is what it seems to represent, heaven. Or at the very least the heaven the flesh side of humanity wants.
The Kingdom of God has a similar meaning. It exists wherever God's will is at work. And God's will is at work wherever people are faithful to the command ...
...o live by a higher standard as my leaders here at Bethel have exemplified greatly, and invested massive amounts of time into me and others to strive for. God is good and one of mercy, but He is just and grace cannot be openly abused but for so long in his eyes when we know the truth but cast it for a character that reflects us as Children of the devil. I desire to be a leader of people and to set people free from addictions as I have. Therefore I must scorn the nature I dismiss and cover with whispers of self-exaltation. I must drag the inner side of my life out to the forges and let the hammer of the Holy spirit shape me into the being God created me to be. Then I will cultivate the calling on my life and everything I need to accomplish and do in this life for the glory of God and His kingdom which is coming soon and may I be ready for such a time as then and now.
Awareness of how God is working through the people and events in my life to produce the character of Christ in me (Proverbs 23:17–18)
The biggest thing that I’ve been dealing with and at this time still struggle with is in finding my self-worth. Some may also call it self-confidence. I feel that I have tended to confuse God’s love for me as primarily traveling through vessels, i.e. other people in the body of Christ. I all too often can look back on my past and see the points where I felt the most apart from God and tie them in with instances where I had torn relationships with past friends in the church. Throughout this struggle though, I have continued to feel the presence of God, through the Holy Spirit, comforting me and guiding me on this spi...
how to get in to the Kingdom of God, what it is, and what it means to
We have no control over our Spiritual gifts. The Holy Spirit comes as He wills to protect us or others, to give knowledge that lifts the church as a whole. He comes to give us warning, wisdom and help for those God loves. He gives us the Lords healing in our hands acting as His conduit.
...rd was trying to tell me this. It was during this time I heard the word ‘seek first the kingdom’. As I heard this word, I cried out to God for the first time in my life to remember me. It was here I made a vow to the Lord in the faith that I would find remembrance. As I made this vow and fulfilled it, the Lord opened doors that I can truly say would not have been opened if I didn’t respond to the word to ‘seek first the kingdom’. Out of this time, the Lord blessed me financially, led me to buy a home and healed my anxious heart. It was here that I began to find testimony before God through offering. This is something I am still finding to this day.
Pearl gates, marble stairs and a throne of gold, or an inner area in the hidden depths of our own soul? Which can describe the true kingdom of God, a real physical world or a place that is only seen in ones hearts. Some would say it to be a place above man, built by God to be a home for peoples' souls after death. Others might say that it is no more than a place inside us that can only be reached through the right decisions and acts of kindness.
The Kingdom of God has been inaugurated in the first advent of Jesus, who now sit enthroned and reigns in heaven. His Kingdom continues to expand by the ministry of the Holy Spirit through the Church, which has been given His kingdom mandate to transform society to the glory of God. Presently, Satan has been bound so that he is unable to impede the work of Christ throughout the world. As such, the Church, now, stands as the true, spiritual “Israel,” and will inherit the promises made to nation of Israel at the consummation of the Kingdom in the new earth.
This paper will discuss the important points of spiritual maturity. Throughout the class, I learn many things that in the end, lead back to my spiritual maturity in Christ. This paper will elaborate on the process of spiritual maturity in the life of believers. During my learning, I did some reflections on what I have learned in the class. I believe that one important lesson that I learn from this class is maturing in my spiritual journey with Christ by learning to love God and with others. Overall, I enjoyed my time attending this class, and I learn so much from every meeting that I had.