Quotes About Deliverance

A justified person dies and rises in Christ, and so is delivered from sin, death and domination of flesh. Justification is, to introduce my neologism, a deliverdict, a forensic act, a judicial verdict that in its very forensic character is an act of deliverance. It is a favorable judgement in the form of resurrection.

God has delivered me." David, the future king, has such faith in the future that he speaks of it in the past tense.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, ". . . I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this." Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Perceptions employed as a base for building up positive concepts are the origin of all ignorance (avidya);[1] perception that there is nothing to perceive — that is nirvana, also known as deliverance.

What is striking about this passage is that the present age is typified by suffering, not only on the part of believers, but also on the part of the whole creation that 'travails' until the time of deliverance.

When she breathed in the sage and dust and tang of orange peel, it smelled to her like deliverance.

Never forget what you were saved from.

Give thanks in every situation you are in. Just say thank you Lord Jesus for what I am going through, because he will deliver you in due season.

I had succeeded in saving him, but only, as it turned out, from death.

Exodus 12:29-30). God is nowhere said to be passive in any of this. He did not pass over Egypt to save his people, but he passed over his people to kill the most prized members of Egypt's community, so that even the animals were not spared. He was on a mission to kill, and he did a thorough job of it, so that "there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

God does not do a half-baked job at anything – what he promises, he delivers, and when he punishes, he goes all the way.

Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 97:10)

Many Christians forget how bad their lives were before God saved them. They dwell on all the "pleasures of sin" (Hebrews 11:25) that had them in Satan's snare before God "rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves" (Colossians 1:13).

But if God does not see fit to manifest entire deliverance at this time, then the person must honor God by his suffering and perseverance.

When a liberal is abused, he says, 'Thank God they didn't beat me.' When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn't kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

25He jammed[27] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, "Let's get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.

Even though comfort based on an illusion is itself illusory, it is for a while a deliverance from the anxiety and existential dread that the world today can generate in abundance.

Jesus is true to His Word: He will deliver us from every one of our pains and sorrows.

At this point God taught me another important lesson: He would do for me what I could not do for myself, but He would not do for me what He required me to do for myself. God had responded to my cry and delivered me from the spirit of heaviness, but after that He held me responsible to exercise scriptural discipline over my own thoughts.

One remarkable characteristic of Jesus' ministry, from beginning to end, is that He never made a hard and fast distinction between healing people's sicknesses and delivering them from demons.

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out .

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.