Sentences with phrase «as an answered prayer»

When the friend beat the odds, he touted that as an answered prayer.

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described the release of 105 of the 110 abducted Dapchi Schoolgirls as an answered prayers of millions...

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described the release of 105 of the 110 abducted Dapchi Schoolgirls as an answered prayers of millions of Nigerians.

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This question was answered by Jesus Christ in the New Testament of The Bible, when he gave us, what is commonly refereed to now as «The Lord's Prayer».

The move was described as «an answer to prayer» by Tearfund's director of advocacy, Paul Cook.

His prayers were answered last September, less than three years after the fire, when the Macedonia First Church of God in Christ opened the doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.

As we have together explored this question, we have prayed for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and we believe that prayer has been answered.

If prayers get answered why are Christians get sick just as often as everyone else?

If I think of answered prayer as a message telegraphed direct to my heart, if I have no sense of the breadth of God, the ways in which God talks to me, then I have only a rudimentary sense of prayer, for, as Gadamer shows, God is talking to me all the time and I don't seem to know it.

The most important answer to these questions is found in the prayers that, as general and as president, Washington publicly urged upon the army and the nation.

I have no reason to reject their claims that what they do comes after finding answers through prayer, just as you claim.

And as a counseling minister, I have never had a single person who HAS «fallen away» suggest to me that it was because prayers were not answered.

You'll see your child's recovery as an answer to prayer, and then you'll come up with some excuse to explain why God didn't answer my prayer to avoid admitting the fact that your kid's recovery had nothing to do with God, just as the death of mine had nothing to do with God.

The evidence is clear that prayers are not answered, or if they are, it's so rare as to be statistically insignificant.

For example, if there were a god and this god answers prayer and guides people as Christians claim, wouldn't you expect all religions to have certain beliefs in common?

In all my life's troubles, I have NEVER sought god as the answer, mainly because I happen to KNOW that mythology does not have the ability to answer prayers, nor the power to change my life.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

His kneeling beside us as we offer up loud cries and tears is already an answer to prayer.

Moreover, God, who alone sees all things and what is necessary, treats us as the unique individuals He created us to be; not a «one size fits all» approach, and He answers prayers and gives gifts on that basis, not simply on whether or not they are a believer.

He created every one of us as unique indivdiduals, so there is no «one size fits all» when it comes to how He answers prayers and gives gifts.

2 — You define 0.01 % as a «high success rate» when it comes to answered prayers.

But Fred — What does it mean to say a prayer has been «answered» if there is never a way to verify it and measure it to make sure it's not the sort of thing that would have happened just as easily without the prayer?

The foundation of my belief is actual experience and validation through answered prayer, miracles and observed honored promises of God as recorded in the Bible.

Pray with belief that he does answer all our prayers, some exactly as we have asked others in the most weird way.

We have through several chapters been tracing the foundations of prayer, trying to answer some questions about it, offering some suggestions as to ways of praying.

(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!

a) In my 25 years as a praying, church attending, bible believing Christian, I never once experienced what I, then or now, would call «answered prayer».

Many answered prayers are the result, and she posts these on a separate wall, as a reminder that God keeps his promises to those who love and obey him.

God will no longer be conceived widely as an objective spiritual being — one who personally hears and answers prayers, and who guides human history from behind the scenes.

We can not prove a metaphysical connection, just as the thousands of reported miracle healings or other presumed answers to prayer can not be proved to the satisfaction of the Humes and the Kants of the world.

As the Spirit is God's complete answer to prayer, the Spirit is also the content of prayer.

Genesis tells what God intended and it was God created them male and female — man needed a mate and that was a female — The bible used to be very hard to understand but I sought the Lord with all my heart and I read it now and it does not contradict itself — Many prayers have been answered and I believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior — I can not imagine living in this world as it is and not having that anchor that holds me together day after day.

Most AG members have personally experienced these gifts: 65 percent claim to pray in tongues; 61 percent have personally experienced divine healing as a result of prayer; 55 percent regularly receive definite answers to specific prayer requests; 32 percent say they are regularly «led by God» to perform specific acts; and nearly 30 percent believe they have been used by God to prophesy.

As far as my research shows the number of claimed answered prayers is almost exactly the same no matter which religion you profess and no matter which God you implorAs far as my research shows the number of claimed answered prayers is almost exactly the same no matter which religion you profess and no matter which God you imploras my research shows the number of claimed answered prayers is almost exactly the same no matter which religion you profess and no matter which God you implore.

The persuasive way to read Pascal's original is as a performance argument and a prayer, but, taken as a flat set of logical possibilities, it has an answer in the extremely unlikely possibility that God rewards disbelief or that God punishes belief.

The question as to whether such prayers can expect an answer in the outward order of events, or only in direction and strengthening of the resolution to secure such needed goods for ourselves, carries us on to the fourth angle of petition.

Don't expect to pray and stay the same, as most of the time you are the answer to your prayer.

Now it is likely that they worked harder and longer as I prayed (outloud) for God to guide them and give them strength and wisdom... or was it answered prayer... would the results have been the same - clearly not because the situation was altered either by God, prayer or simply the hearing of a plea by the surgens and staff.

She even regarded God as existing to hear her prayers (and to answer them promptly..

Maybe God doesn't answer all our prayers, and there could be a reason for it, as maybe he knows what lies ahead in the future for us.

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,

Nevertheless, it's not clear how belief in a personal God — a God who creates and who answers prayers — is to he aligned with the scientific view of the cosmos as an ancient universe governed by impersonal and tightly knit laws.

Promises of eternal life, of prayers answered, your own planet, virgins, an end to suffering, and so forth are all things that people can become greedy for as well.

The petitions of the Lord's Prayer, no doubt used as a table prayer by Jesus when admitted to the hospitality of a home, were actually promptly answered in the house of the son of Prayer, no doubt used as a table prayer by Jesus when admitted to the hospitality of a home, were actually promptly answered in the house of the son of prayer by Jesus when admitted to the hospitality of a home, were actually promptly answered in the house of the son of peace.

We are so verbal, especially in the Protestant tradition, that it's hard for us not to imagine prayer either as monologue, in which I tell God things and God listens, or as a conversation in which I tell God things and God answers back.

Spin it however ya want, but the fact remains as such — saying the prayer with the understanding that it might not be answered can be of more help than blindly saying, «Gd, please help me win the lottery.»

I've had this discussion with Jehovah's Witnesses, whose religion insists that God won't answer prayer, may even disown you, if you do not address Him as «Jehovah.»

Do you get lots of Facebook posts in your feed that show a dumb Christian image with an invitation to share the post or comment on it as a way to get blessings from God and have your prayers answered?

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.»

3 — While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some id iot rolling around on the floor speaking in «tongues» may be all the evidence you need to «prove» catholicism 2 — You define 0.01 % as a «high success rate» when it comes to answered prayers.