Sentences with phrase «much prayer in»

We have to utilize MUCH prayer in our evangelism or outreach efforts.

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This makes three weeks of regular warnings from Goldman and other banks that stocks have soared on a wing and prayer, with investors hoping for, and pricing in, something that may be forthcoming only belatedly, if at all, and only in much watered down form, and perhaps without much effect on corporate earnings after all, especially since the US corporate tax code, as it is, already provides companies countless ways to shelter their income.

Not only is there an enormous risk of a single glitch in execution destroying much of the stock's value, but also you are relying on a hope and a prayer for things to work out satisfactorily.

I would recommend much studying and prayer in the matter.

The National Day of Prayer is an embarrassment to America and makes us look as intellectually barbaric as fervent middle eastern theocracies that in many ways haven't progressed much past the last millennium.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

Peter's prayers may not be answered, but if everyone in the world had his intentions, it wouldbe a much better place.

After much discussion, study, and prayer over the course of a year, the statement «The Gift of Salvation» was agreed to at a meeting in New York City in October 1997, and published in the January 1998 issue of this journal.

I simply gave you a possible scenario that has as much validity as your beliefs, in which your unwelcome prayers to another could be potentially harmful.

It seems to me that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the school - prayer cases had a much deeper and more powerful impact on the culture.

And you will also be hearing much from the anti-Christs who will try to sway you into not saying the prayer of salvation but you must bear in mind that they will not be with you to defend you when you pass on and are before God.

Prayer changes nothing, so stop embracing coincidence as providence, your life will have much more meaning when you realize that you are in control of it.

--------------------- No... Because James says in James 5:16 that «the effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.»

I wonder how much prayer and communion in the Holy Spirit occurred in your process because your comments reflect exactly what Thom is addressing.

Considering that the temple was an official place of religion, it is surprising how much of this recognition of the true character of Yahweh has been preserved in these prayers for humble persons who need salvation from the wicked.

And yes, I will be in much prayer that the impact remains positive in my roll as pastor to my people.

Parents and families need to be re-educated in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and sacrifice — there is much to do.

St. Teresa advises, «we must shorten our time of prayer, however much joy it gives us, if we see our bodily strength waning or find our head aches: discretion is most necessary in everything.»

Holloway, after investing much prayer and time in him, said he saw him one day engaged in a lustful action with a girl in a park, and after that the lad lost all interest in God.

Well into her 80s, she spends much of each week in prayer and Bible study.

He also suggested small towns deserve as much right to allow a brief prayer in public sessions as federal and state bodies.

A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.

Nowadays, the annual Mass and Prayer Vigil for Life, held the night before the march in the vast basilica, has become such a crammed and cramped experience that youth groups who wish to attend must arrive four to six hours early if they want so much as merely a space to sit on the floor.

These are good words, and indeed they capture much of Mary's posture in this powerful and venerated prayer.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

The scholar metaphor is useful for worship and Bible study, but books like Andrew Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer don't have much to say about faithfulness in the workplace.

I feel that I am in a Job experience (have been for years) and don't understand why my prayers haven't been answered for a much loved child who suffers unbearably, yet reached out to God himself and was apparently ignored.

An appendix indicates that the much loved «Prayer of Saint Francis» («Lord, make me an instrument of your peace / Where there is hatred, let me sow love...) was written in the early twentieth century and, by a circuitous route, ended up being attributed to the saint.

Before the quality and range of such petition much of the historic and contemporaneous practice and theory of prayer in the church should stand ashamed.

The prayer of a righteous man avails much... (James 5:16)... may they be one, as we are one... (Jesus in John 17:22) If one is to believe that Jesus is righteous, and that...

With the removal of the Bible and prayer from our schools and homes, the Devil has gained much strength in our land.

100 hands in prayer, do not get as much done as two hands working.

(Matthew 6:8) Prayer was not begging a reluctant deity for his best gifts, as though he were an unjust judge or a surly neighbor in bed with his children unwilling to arise and answer a call for help — although if patience in prayer could accomplish its end even in such cases, how much more with the righteous and mercifuPrayer was not begging a reluctant deity for his best gifts, as though he were an unjust judge or a surly neighbor in bed with his children unwilling to arise and answer a call for help — although if patience in prayer could accomplish its end even in such cases, how much more with the righteous and mercifuprayer could accomplish its end even in such cases, how much more with the righteous and merciful God!

We do not need prayer — or at least, not much of it — that centers in observation of one's own inner states.

Jeremiah 18:21, 23) A notable amount of praying in the Old Testament is thus cursing, and lest Christians should assume too much credit in this regard, a similar abuse of prayer, all the more inexcusable because sinning against light, stands in the New Testament — «How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?»

People who replace a typical five - minute extemporaneous prayer with a set of five or so collects often remark on the experience of spending that much time in prayer thinking about God rather than about their own needs.

We have so much to learn about turning prayer from a tedious activity in a cold church hall into an adventure of hope and creativity.

My prayer is that you are living in a beautiful world today, one that is filled with so much more than black marks on white paper.

After giving us his illustration of prayer, Jesus concludes his general advice to persevere in prayer with this promise (cited above in part): «If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!»

There is not all that much difference between the dancing of the prophets of Baal before their altar in the hope that their god would vindicate them, and the all - night prayer relay which seeks a glorious harvest of souls at the mass meeting of the visiting evangelist.

How much accommodation there is varies from the excision of overt references to Christ in hymns and prayers, to the inclusion of representatives of other faiths in the planning process.

When understood this way, prayer become much less of a mystery about how to pray and what to pray for and who can pray and where to pray, and much more like a conversation we have in everyday life.

I have a Sister who swears by «the sinner's prayer» but is beholding to «the secret» and her life has not been radically transformed, she still engages in sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage and feels this is natural... I would never be able to participate in this sordid activity now that i am truly saved for there was a time i myself was being deceived in much the same way as my Sister is now, I just couldn't bring myself to do these acts and further, would not place myself in such a predicament that I would..

If there is a being who is God who is so much greater than we are — and he wants to be found ONLY in the way he says which is through prayer and a humble heart, then it would make sense that our baby toys we use to detect God will never find him.

Much can be said about the content of Jesus» prayer, especially that the primary prayer request of Jesus for all who would believe in Him is that we would be unified (John 17:21).

If this is God's world, he can do much — in us, through us, for us — in response to prayer.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

Very frequently, the priests said special prayers or required people to say special words when undergoing these sacred rituals, so that over time, people began to think that there was actual power in these rituals, so that the way they were done did not matter as much as simply doing them.

My personal opinion is that when prayer is involved in songwriting and the songwriter is submitted to God and allows the Holy Spirit to lead them, then the song will have the message that God wants His people to hear, much the same as a Pastor who writes a sermon, God Bless you.

Yep, it's so much better to follow Huckbee, who said that those Sandy Hook kids deserved to die because prayer is no longer a mandate in school, and God was mad.