What kind of prayer actually changes things if Muslim prayer does not?
@ atheism is not healthy:
what kind of prayer?
What will it look like when you have to make decisions about how to discipline and
what kind of prayers to say at night?
Not exact matches
I had in my heart and tongue the Name
of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression
of any
kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age
of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word
of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot
of reciting verses
of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic
of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth
of many beliefs out
of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief
of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance
of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front
of him and when was on the top
of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and
what I will hold... so many things like that..
Since
what I hear over an amplified PA system (
kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the
prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by
prayer protocol to challenge the assertions
of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one
of them.»
What kind of heathen doesn't recognize
prayer when he hears it?
The
prayer is
kind of written in an archaic style, so he even went through the
prayer line by line to teach us
what the words meant.
Now pray for me if you have that
kind of understanding, «Mike, not me», and we will see just
what sort
of power your
prayers have
of helping the helpless.
We do not know
what effect such
prayers will have, but we do know that all generous
prayer is valued by God, and while God always does the best that can be done in every circumstance, we may cherish the thought that God also can use
prayer of that
kind for furthering the divine purposes for good, though it may be in a way past human comprehension.
Because if God can respond to a
prayer about high school football team and at the same time go silent to
prayers for the healing
of a little girl,
what kind of God is He?
If they were all Christians, and decided to open the session with a Christian
prayer,
what kind of impression do you think it would have made if I either failed to say «amen» at the end, or worse yet, walked out?
The author
of the book A New
Kind of Conservative: Cooperation Without Compromise spoke with Christianity Today the night
of the inauguration about the
prayer service and
what he expects from the new administration.
Altogether too often
prayer is regarded as a
kind of gadget by which we can secure
what we wish from God; it is, alas, a matter
of «pestering the Deity with our petitions,» to use a biting phrase
of Dean Inge's.
What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public
prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family
of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a
kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.
Prayer can be helpful because the kind of quieting down and centering that we do during prayer can help us hear the hints and suggestions that God is making about what would be the best choices for us to
Prayer can be helpful because the
kind of quieting down and centering that we do during
prayer can help us hear the hints and suggestions that God is making about what would be the best choices for us to
prayer can help us hear the hints and suggestions that God is making about
what would be the best choices for us to make.
In the present book I have spoken only incidentally
of the «case» for
prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice
of prayer, including the question
of its effectiveness, the various
kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise
of private
prayer and
of public
prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it
what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point
of prayer in the total context
of Christian faith itself.
Quotes from the Bible ask students to suggest
what kind of relationship Christians hope to achieve with God through worship and
prayer.