In God We Trust ​ Article 5: The Sources of Unbelief and of Faith James 1:13-18 - The Devil (didn't) Make 45:21-25 - Irrevocable Ezekiel 36:24-27 - A Whole New Reality Romans 9:15-21 - God's Mercy, Not Your Effort Every Effort Isaiah 42:1-9 - The Sovereign & His Servant Deuteronomy 29:29 - The Secret Things Psalm Every element stood for something: the farmer and his field, the good seed and the weeds. AAA Prayer (About) A CKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS : Our Father, who will make the righteous shine like the

In God We Trust ​ Article 5: The Sources of Unbelief and of Faith James 1:13-18 - The Devil (didn't) Make 45:21-25 - Irrevocable Ezekiel 36:24-27 - A Whole New Reality Romans 9:15-21 - God's Mercy, Not Your Effort Article 13/14: The Fruit of our assurance Isaiah 57:14-21 - God's Second Residence 2 Peter 1:3-10 - Make Every Effort Isaiah 42:1-9 - The Sovereign & His Servant Deuteronomy 29:29 - The Secret Things Psalm abandoned themselves wholly to the cares of the world and the pleasures of the flesh— such people have every

In God We Trust ​ Article 5: The Sources of Unbelief and of Faith James 1:13-18 - The Devil (didn't) Make 45:21-25 - Irrevocable Ezekiel 36:24-27 - A Whole New Reality Romans 9:15-21 - God's Mercy, Not Your Effort Article 13/14: The Fruit of our assurance Isaiah 57:14-21 - God's Second Residence 2 Peter 1:3-10 - Make Every Effort Isaiah 42:1-9 - The Sovereign & His Servant Deuteronomy 29:29 - The Secret Things Psalm And this is the decree of reprobation,  which does not at all make God the author of sin (a blasphemous

Jesus makes this spiritual rebirth an absolute necessity, proclaiming that “unless one is born of water This is not an action you take as a believer, since regeneration is the work of the Holy Spirit. Where you were once spiritually dead in your trespasses and sins, you are now made alive.

You'll never understand how clean you've been made till you understand how filthy you were! unrepentant sin (although it does), rather Paul's point here is no matter how filthy these sins have made you in the past, you've now been washed, sanctified and made righteous. how dire your circumstances are apart from Christ, and how disgusting it is for your Father when you take what the Holy Spirit has washed clean and make yourself filthy all over again.

have compassion on whom I have compassion.”  16  It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort ministry of the gospel come to Christ and are brought to conversion  must not be ­credited to human effort In other words, your salvation does not depend upon your own desire or effort. in your life depending on your own desires and efforts. That's why today's verse, stating that salvation does not depend upon your desire or effort, but on God's

Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father. ⁸ Ask me, and I will make progress; and every anti-Christian power may be resisted . Psalm 2 sets forth two competing realities, but it also makes clear that only one of these realities He's not laughing because He thinks their attempts are so funny, but because He knows their rebellious efforts Remember that your Father in heaven is laughing at the feeble efforts this world musters in rebellion

ministry of the gospel come to Christ and are brought to conversion  must not be ­credited to human effort your salvation with awe and reverence... ...for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort One lexicon defines it as "to cause to be, to make to be, to make, to result in, to bring upon, to bring In other words, you must do the hard work of making your salvation by grace alone evident in every aspect the energy to will and to act (or as the NET puts it, bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort

But every so often, the KJV can't be topped, and such is the case with this opening verse in today's You see tens of thousands of different things each and every day - far too many to focus on each and every detail. So John here reminds you that every so often, you need stop, drop what you're doing, rid yourself of That's why you need to make a concerted effort in your life to get up and out of the valley every so

Bible.com Philippians 3:7–14 (NIV) 7  But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake Summary So often Christianity is described in terms of how it makes people feel. He wanted to participate in it in such a way that every bit of knowledge he gained would make him more These are aggressive words that Paul used to describe his efforts. They mean to strive after something - to go after it with every ounce of energy possible.