Quotes About Lordship

The postmodern mindset stands in utter disrespect for Jesus Christ, for it suggests that there are other lords and saviors just as good and just as valid.

The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.

What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning. . . . Our need for specific answers is dissolved in the greater issue of the lordship of Christ over all questions —those that have answers and those that don't.2 A heart

I'd hardly say I was common; after all, I fleeced you out of £110,000, and even so, all I have to do is smile, and you still come straight to heel, just as you did today. We are neither of us common, my lord.

To experience the "Kingdom" means that I have taken all that He has freely given to me, plus the right to my own life, and have given all this unconditionally to Him. He has become "Lord" of my life and I have yielded control over the totality of my being - all that I am, and all that I ever will be, to Him. He is now "my" Lord.

Jesus didn't come into our lives to rent a room; He bought the house! As we unlock the doors to the areas that we've held onto and allow Him free reign, we experience His life living through us.

Love hath so long possessed me for his ownAnd made his lordship so familiar.

In order to live as a slave of Jesus Christ, you must recognize the truth that God owns you. He created you. Every part of your mind, soul, and spirit was made by the creative breath of God.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

How nice to be married with … how many children, Richard? You don't have quite this problem. You don't have any problems really, do you, sitting there in your lordship pontificating? It seems to be beyond you even to get yourself decently drowned.

To accept God's free gift of righteousness also means at the same time to accept a new lordship over the life.

No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

This is the importance of the Irish problem for Marshal. It tested his capacity as not other episode of his life. He had to fend off the king with one hand & preserve his lordship in Leinster with the other. Here we find the first signs that the man had some streak of greatness in him; that he was more than a simpering courtier. In the Leinster years we discover why the Marshal came in the end to rule England.

Only God, no other kings!

God is King of kings.

Dominance is only for GOD.

People and nations cannot be happy, if they do not acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.

Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.

When you look at it closely, drunkenness is a lordship problem. Who is your master, God or your desires? Do you desire God above all else, or do you desire something in creation more than you desire the Creator? At root, drunkards are worshipping another god—alcohol. Drunkenness violates the command "You shall have no other gods before me.

The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life.

That is the Masculine Mandate: to be spiritual men placed in real-world, God-defined relationships, as lords and servants under God, to bear God's fruit by serving and leading.

You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lordship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?