Sentences with phrase «prayer works when»
Prayer works when in postive results.
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When prayer works, we credit god.
when two sides are competeing in sport and they both pray to win then does that mean prayer works because someone must lose therefore their prayers wernt answered and the others were, does this mean god loves the others more?
She swears that it really works, but when her prayers don't come true, she says that she didn't pray hard enough.
Like the kind that dedicated folks use in hopes that their child won't die from a terminal illness; and when the child still dies, it wasn't that the prayer didn't work... it was just «God's plan»... what a load.
It's been proven prayer doesn't work it's why Christians were sent to jail when prayers did cure their children but modern medicine would have.
When lead penetrates your body let us know how the prayer thing is working out for you..
to the ones do not believe in god when you in tragic situation who do you call on, 911 happen when a republican took whitehouse so you idiots a tragic have not happen yet so prayer does work and you with all the hate and jealousy you will reap what you sow
Jesus also promised that prayer would work, He would be back in the 1st Century and did not deny the fact that the earth is flat, when tempted by Satan.
«to the ones do not believe in god when you in tragic situation who do you call on, 911 happen when a republican took whitehouse so you idiots a tragic have not happen yet so prayer does work and you with all the hate and jealousy you will reap what you sow» ok, if this is a serious post then my answer is... in a tragic situation I certainly do nt turn to an imaginary being in the sky because that would be pointless.
When her mother, the daughter and granddaughter of Methodist ministers, died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis in a series of recollections penned for friends and family remembered her mother especially for her evangelical piety and practice: her conversion at age 12; her lifelong work in a Methodist Sunday school in Grafton, West Virginia; her habits of secret prayer, her graces at table; and her abiding affection for her favorite hymns.
God begins to pray himself in us when we begin to work out the answer to our prayer in junior partnership with him.
While working, he said he was followed by supervisors and watched when he went to pray in a storage room, and so began to complete his daily prayers outdoors near a trash dumpster.
Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz
Prayer does work its like a day to day roadmap when I prayed too know more about jesus it was like bring my jewish people back too isreal.
I am reminded that when policy fails to transform, prayer and people keep doing the work of the Spirit.
When you're paid to be spiritual, prayer and study feels a lot like, well, work.
When in the royal audience he prepared to make his plea for Jerusalem's rebuilding, he inwardly «prayed to the God of heaven»; (Nehemiah 2:4) when he and his fellows labored on Zion amid bitter enemies, he reports, «We made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night»; (Nehemiah 4:9) and when he laid down his finished work, he exclaimed, «Remember me, O my God, for good.&raWhen in the royal audience he prepared to make his plea for Jerusalem's rebuilding, he inwardly «prayed to the God of heaven»; (Nehemiah 2:4) when he and his fellows labored on Zion amid bitter enemies, he reports, «We made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night»; (Nehemiah 4:9) and when he laid down his finished work, he exclaimed, «Remember me, O my God, for good.&rawhen he and his fellows labored on Zion amid bitter enemies, he reports, «We made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night»; (Nehemiah 4:9) and when he laid down his finished work, he exclaimed, «Remember me, O my God, for good.&rawhen he laid down his finished work, he exclaimed, «Remember me, O my God, for good.»
When this problem was worked through in counseling, vitality returned to his prayer life.
The Religious Right will remain, for the same reason the religious commenters here continue their absurd blither «about lakes of fire» and «prayer works» — when you are stupid, there is nothing that can be done.
... When God saves people in this life by working through his Spirit to bring them to faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.
God is always active, is always speaking, is always involved, is always answering prayer, and is always working to accomplish His will in the world... even when He is not having people write about it.
People in social media passing around stories of heartache asking for prayers when it is a proven fact that prayers do not work at all.
My main point is, when you test to see if prayer works, there are ways to randomize it so bias is out of the equation (Usually double - blind tests work nicely) and then before you even begin you outline that a prayer that works means the person is healed instantly, or to make it slightly more «fair» and conform to laws of nature more, a person who has prayers heals at an abnormally high rate.
I don't believe that prayer works and so when you tell me that prayer works because there's god behind an action, I'm skeptical.
I am sure that by this time next year, when the man gets up to teach all the amateur fisherman who have never caught a fish about the miracle - working wonders of this prayer, he will have some stories to tell them about me, and how I prayed five times a day, and as a result, caught the biggest fish the world and the most fish all in one day.
but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.
My prayer is that I will never outgrow what he has worked inside of me so that it doesn't become out of balance, and when voices are raised all around me, it never becomes the thing that validates me.
The highest work is in fact prayer; and all prayer when devoutly undertaken is an activity and not merely a state of mind nor an emotional attitude.
Prayer for First Sunday of Advent: «Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Today, in his reading, Baptists are the phonies when they vote — as Southern Baptist Convention majorities did — to have government do their spiritual work for them by supporting, for instance, a school prayer amendment.
There are different kinds of prayer and those I have witnessed work each and every time happened when some other force took control of the prayer.
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I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.
How can you convince us that prayer doesn't work when many of the righteous in Christ has had many of our prayers answered.
When prayer doesn't work, the person dealing with mental illness feels like a failure or like they don't have enough faith.
When we apply the analogy to our praying, we see then that faith (and prayer) and works go together, but that the former precedes and causes the latter.
Well, while I was praying, I remember holding out my hands to God and telling him they should work for him, my feet walk for him, my tongue speak for him, etc., etc., if he would only use me as his instrument and give me a satisfying experience — when suddenly the darkness of the night seemed lit up — I felt, realized, knew, that God heard and answered my prayer.
† † If I can pass along a little hint, when you want to tattoo PRAYER WORKS on your forehead like I tried to, don't do it using a nail gun as a needle.
In some Muslim countries, Sunday is a normal working day whereas Friday is the day of rest, when Muslims go to jummah prayer.
When Sunday morning came, I reported that the prayer didn't work.
In this interim age, when the Kingdom has been inaugurated in Jesus Christ but not yet fulfilled in the resurrected body for us all, our prayers for healing will not always work.
But you have to find this out for yourself, how prayers work, what difference does it mean praying them, and what happens when one does not pray them.
But thought prayer isn't a magic wand but only «works» when men stop praying and do great things for one another.
And besides this, when viewed from the perspective that all of our prayer requests are small to God, this puts us in the correct mind frame of completely trusting and relying on God to work it out.
Sometimes I think we confuse work and prayer: We pray when we should be working, and we work when we should be praying.
Against fashionable opinion, she opposed contraception and abortion, and called for family prayers, and more reverence on receiving Communion, and when she spoke on these things it ensured that any praise for her work was matched by criticism and ridicule from those who opposed her.
He made a couple bad passes, but his work as a central defender ahead of Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini was absolutely stellar, not to mention the slight change of role when Claudio Marchisio replaced an injured Sami Khedira — * author briefly says a prayer to every known deity * — but he was great.
When I think of teaching a toddler or preschooler about prayer I always remember the story of Susannah Wesley with her hordes of little ones around her... when she needed to pray she would throw her apron over her face and pray... right there as she was workWhen I think of teaching a toddler or preschooler about prayer I always remember the story of Susannah Wesley with her hordes of little ones around her... when she needed to pray she would throw her apron over her face and pray... right there as she was workwhen she needed to pray she would throw her apron over her face and pray... right there as she was working.
Now, when a pricing plague strikes your village and the experts fail to stop the spread, and Aunt Sadie's home recipes don't work, and your prayers don't save the people you love, there's a natural tendency to latch on to anyone who comes by with a possible solution.