Sentences with phrase «about prayer times»

The water - resistant and GPS - enabled bracelets that inform the pilgrims about prayer times also feature a multi-lingual help desk for non-Arabic speaking pilgrims.

Not exact matches

Once in Vegas I prayed for a four to come up each of 600 times I rolled a dice, and God answered my prayers about a hundred times.

He says that he would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.

Instead of wasting time with these frivolous lawsuits, I wish the American Atheists would take issue with employers who require all workers to participate in group prayer (as one of my former employers did) or landlords who «casually» ask about your religion before they will rent you an apartment (that's life in the Bible Belt, eh?).

«If you are just twittering to God your prayers throughout the day, then you are not taking the time to think about what you're praying.

For many people the hardest thing about learning to pray is finding time, space, privacy, quiet and energy for prayer.

The more we listen to God, and the more we learn about how he does answer our prayers and guide our lives, we learn more about what to ask for, how to use his gifts, and how to trust him through good or bad times.

Bondi, who teaches at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, recently wrote Memories of God (Abingdon) and is now working on a book about prayer titled In Ordinary Time.

A Christian who leads a Bible study for his teammates as well as pregame prayers with the New York Knicks recently raised hackles with his comments about Jews printed in the New York Times Magazine.

The more we listen to God, and the more we learn about how he does answer our prayers and guide our lives, the more we learn more about what to ask for, how to use his gifts, and how to trust him through good or bad times.

Ever since her story was featured in Christianity Today nearly a year ago, Butterfield has become something of a celebrity within the conservative evangelical world, and every time I'm in conversation with someone about the potential dangers of «conversion therapy» (which seeks to change a person's sexual orientation through counseling and prayer), her name invariably comes up.

So to not be able to talk about such embarrassment had been a hindrance for me at the time rather than the time of prayer ministry being a help.

So, if they know nothing of the outside world and spend most of their time in prayer... what are they praying about... and what good does it do the rest of us?

So, recently, I decided to spend some time in listening prayer about racism.

Although she had a solid prayer life, by the time she had completed her formal education at the age of 12, there was nothing about her that would make her stand out in a crowd.

Our prayers will also be answered, in God's own time and God's own way, and when they are, I hope we won't brag about it, but rather be humbly grateful and give the glory to God Almighty.

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.

More times than not about the Lord's Prayer and how it shaped how we related to God, each other, friends, family and everyone we met.

Be honest about your own failures in prayer: the times you meant to pray but didn't, the times God just didn't seem to answer and the times you got bored.

I have been forward for prayer so many times about stopping masturbating, repented and... More

I was prickly about people's demands on «my time,» especially when they interrupted silence or prayer, and I was bugged by what seemed to be widespread spiritual sloppiness in folks who considered themselves religious.

In discussions about this case, defenders of the town have expressed nostalgia for a time when Christian prayers — and only Christian prayers — would pass constitutional muster.

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I have been forward for prayer so many times about stopping masturbating, repented and asked God to help me, but then I go back to it — I just can't sleep until I do.

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(I did meet his wife though, after about 20 years — she was wonderful) I was in all the prayer / intercession groups (I was called to prayer and a few other things) and several times one of the other pray - ers sort of intimated that ours was «The» church of the city, and I'd always then start praying for every God called church in my city.

WE don't know when it is time for us to go... that is why there are prayer requests for people like foley... God DID answer their prayers... it was «no, it is time for foley to come home» Its sad when people limit themselves to only a few options about other people

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,

I see the president and his colleagues in prayer but spend their time worrying about who needs medical insurance, vaccinations, and turning third world countries into free countries.

But by the time my semester came to an end, I learned some wholly unexpected lessons about the transformative power of prayer in a jail setting; about the effects on the body of such personal transformation; and about this country's systemic racism and how it is in some ways coterminous with the attempt to prevent or repress such transformation.

Having no model at all to meet the upkeep on and no known shape to whip themselves into, they would for the first time be open to looking for really new answers — honest answers — that could range anywhere from «We haven't the foggiest notion, but let's get together next Sunday and see if anything's occurred to us in the meantime,» to «We're here to be the church, I suppose — whatever that means,» to «How about for openers we just try to stick with fellowship, breaking bread, and saying prayers?

So tired about these discussions — if somebody really want to believe that some power have time to listen to petty prayers for whatever..

We think that Christianity is about being «happy, happy, happy all the time,» seeing God miraculously answer all our prayers, and have all of our Christian friends surround us with financial and emotional support every time the least little thing goes wrong.

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.

I'm talking about the most common way of «doing church» today... a building, a paid pastor, a 90 minute service on Sunday morning with 4 - 5 songs, a prayer time, a 30 - 40 minute sermon, youth group, children's programs, etc. etc..

If it really has been «done to death,» then I can think of numerous topics that have been done many times more than this topic (at least where I'm at and interact): faith, hope, love, prayer, fellowship, giving, good works, christian unity, salvation, grace, faith healing, being culturally relevant, the gospel, the resurrection, religion vs. relationship, tithing, worship, reverence, christian music, legalism, old vs. new covenant, Paul's conversion, miracles, gifts of the spirit, sign gifts, tongues, nativity, the disciples, crucifixion, materialism, mysticism, new age, atheism, i could probably list about 50 more if I thought about it.

Claiming miracles in the debris of a summer storm is as vacuous as praying for a four to come up on each of six - hundred times you roll a die, and then claiming that god answered your prayers «about a hundred times.»

After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came about due to the status of women during a particular time and culture and continued because of the patriarchal system that most churches have continued to operate under.

Speaking about the importance of prayer during this difficult time, Rev Long said that while it may be hard knowing what words to say to God, people should pray that «some sense of peace for those that have suffered so much might emerge».

We should be unapologetic about providing people with both time and space for reflection, meditation and, yes, prayer.

Believe it or not, these sorts of discoveries will eventually trickle down into theology, requiring us to rethink much about creation, prayer, the afterlife, the flow of time, and numerous related subjects.

You will often find illustrations in sermons and books on prayer about how prayer is a spiritual discipline, and while the new believer may only pray for five minutes a day, the longer one is a Christian, the more time they should spend in prayer, so that the truly spiritual prayer warrior will pray for several hours a day.

So I began to think about what it means to be alive and began to really pray for perhaps the first time in my life (other than those prayers at meal time and the «Now I lay me down to sleep» prayer at night).

You no longer have to feel guilty about not spending enough time in prayer; you can always tell someone you pray nonstop during your waking hours.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

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?

In this book, he tells us about a time when Nouwen went on retreat to some friendsâ $ ™ in the country, and he began to just meet in the red barn on their property to prayer and celebrate mass.

When we take this approach with your walk with God, I guarantee we will all be more intentional about spending time daily with Him in prayer and scripture to make sure we have the armor God that we may be able stand against the wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6:11).

How we took an hour and a half to walk one time around a lake that should take only 25 minutes, about how we stood on the bridge, and watched the moon fade into the coming day over the blue lake water in this western city in the country, how we ate blueberries they picked with their own hands, and we felt the wonder of it all, all three of us, quiet, and watching a ghost moon, together, and it felt like prayer, and a cathedral, and communion, and a gift, and kingdom come.

When you peel the layers off their conscious mind and reach the subconscious, you will find most times that they mean they don't like the teaching this institution gives about poverty, prayer, attendance at the Eucharist, and their sexual life, whether in or out of marriage.