Sentences with phrase «daily prayer life»

For praying I am working to improve my daily prayer life.

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But you don't need to proselytize to benefit from faith and prayer in your daily business life.

For monks in the Benedictine tradition, daily prayer structures the entire day and the whole of their life in community.

I grew to love this pattern of daily prayer, and it managed to change my life, immersing me in the Psalms and the rest of Holy Scripture, as well as in the early Christian canticles and hymns.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

The young people who worked for him at the magazine lived with him in a townhouse on East 19th Street, where we had daily evening prayer and Saturday dinner together.

It looks upon the daily work to support one's family and to improve the life of the community as an obligation as important as prayer.

Such prayer in the midst of life's daily commands is the secret of Brother Lawrence's Practice of the Presence of God, which every Christian would do well to reread at intervals.

Moreover, if the Constitution on the Liturgy emphasizes that we ought to «pray without ceasing», this can hardly apply only to liturgical prayer, especially in the case of the laity, who would not have sufficient time for this; and so it may be concluded that in our daily life private and liturgical prayer need certainly not compete with each other.

The have left the cultural world to focus and devote their lives to God in the simple and daily practices of prayer, ritual, and service.

More often than we're comfortable admitting, I think, we find ourselves feeling what many recent theologians say we should: a twinge of uneasiness at speaking of heaven outside of church; the sense that Jesus» death and resurrection can't quite be brought to bear on our daily routine, our social life, our moneymaking, our recreation; an inability to see with the heart the goodness of the Good News; a certain emptiness in our prayers.

Two years ago, then Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb delivered the Conservative Christian Fellowship's Wilberforce Address and claimed that «it is easier for a politician to admit to smoking weed or watching porn, than it is to admit that they might take prayer seriously in their daily life».

This is a cheerful, readable book which aims to encourage ordinary Catholic women with busy lives, with homes to run and children to raise, with responsibilities and with jobs and worries, to live in the presence of God and to make prayer part of their daily lives.

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.

Prayer, or talking to God and inviting Him into our experiences and circumstances, should be a natural part of daily life.

The prayer for «our daily bread» is the acknowledgment of our dependence, and the expression of hope that the God who has given life will continue to give it.

And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.

For each of us personally there is also the practice of so - called private prayer, in which through daily devotion life in Christ is nourished and strengthened.

Given the theological and church issues that could have divided any one of the early Christian congregations, the importance of the Lord's Prayer as a guide to all aspects of daily life becomes apparent.

It's living a life of prayer, letting God's Spirit speak within the daily doses of «groan» up life, and then honing your ability to hear what He's actually saying.

Prayer is communicating with God about many things: love and admiration of God and acknowledging that He IS God; confession of one's sins with the honest intent to try and turn away from those wrongful acts; asking for God's daily care; asking for God's intervention in our lives and those of our loved ones, in a manner consistent with God's will — and just unloading on Him.

It is very easy to use one - phrase prayers as part of our daily routine, and they can help to shift our perspectives so we are expectant to learn from Jesus and see his hand at work in a practical way in our daily lives:

When thinking about a life or prayer many people try to plan a daily routine.

Most people can not add daily prayer and Bible reading into an already busy life, let alone church services on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night, a Bible study on Friday night, and an accountability group on Saturday morning.

Notice, then, that in the prayer Jesus taught the order of things is this: first, identification with God, his will, his kingdom of sovereign love; next, asking for daily bread or what is needed to make life possible; then, deliverance from evil and from the test that will be too much for us; and all of it, as Matthew's gospel recognizes when it adds the doxology to the simpler Lukan version, to God's glory — so that the divine will may be done, and be seen done, «in earth as in heaven.»

The answer to the practical aspect of the problem moderns find in prayer, then, must be found in a definition of praying that makes sense in and makes sense of our daily life.

They do not recognize the relation of prayer to the exigencies of daily life with its duties and responsibilities.

If we have been teaching them about the spiritual life, we want them to put into practice the techniques of Christian prayer and to continue in those techniques, growing in grace and in the knowledge and love of God as they constantly seek him in their regular daily devotions.

Through its internal life of eucharistic worship, thanksgiving, intercessory prayer, through planning for mission and evangelism, through a daily lifestyle of solidarity with the poor, through advocacy even to confrontation with the powers that oppress human beings, the churches are trying to fulfil this evangelistic vocation.

The person doesn't walk away — despite hard work, despite prayers for a miracle and bargaining with God, despite making vast improvements in learning daily living skills from a wheelchair, and even despite, at times, some measurable return of arm and hand function.

This may move Christian worship beyond the preoccupation with Scriptural texts and literary forms of prayer to a concern with the spontaneous religious life of its daily practitioners.

As Followill explains, they're still involved with charitable causes and their daily life consists of prayer and the occasional jaunt to church — at least for mom's sake.

On the daily scale of our lives, we're waiting for God to answer our prayers.

There is a Catholic chaplaincy and daily Mass, and a house — named in honour of Benedict XVI — where students can live for a year in community sharing daily prayer and forming a core of faith commitment.

We learn of the importance he attached to daily Mass, his fidelity to prayer, the rosary, promoting Eucharistic adoration, weekly confession of sins, his attention to the needs of others as though he or she were the only one he'd ever met, his self - sacrifice in imitation of Maximillian Kolbe whom he had canonised; most importantly, we learn of his very deep understanding of how life is transformed through chastity for married and single alike.

Prayer that becomes as much a part of life as making a mug of tea or opening up emails: something real, necessary, and done as part of daily life and given its due important place.

We need to Stand up NOW We Need to Start the unifying process, so we are taken from hands of those piranas, I feel this in daily life, as 30 year old woman, why is all those man so beyond in arrogance and confidence, Imagine our children when alone in their closeness, not understanding, Prayer shall be heard in hearts of us many, and start the process, we are the ones that will change the planet and the way are in church, schools, daily community....

Friars were leaving the Augustinians almost daily, and within a few months it was impossible to continue with the common recitation of the Office, the readings at meals, or any semblance of regular community life — the life which had formed Luther, given him his love of psalm and plain chant, scripture and prayer, of theology and preaching.

how ye ought to forsake and set aside, as much as ye may, all worldly cares and studies... to give yourselves wholly to this Office, whereunto it hath pleased God to call you... and draw all your cares and studies this way that so, by prayer for the assistance of the Holy Ghost, and by daily reading and weighing the Scriptures, ye may wax riper and stronger in your Ministry; and that ye may so endeavour yourselves... to sanctify the lives of you and yours, and to fashion them after the Rule and Doctrine of Christ, that ye may be wholesome and godly examples and patterns for the people to follow.1

A few of my favorite life - giving / sustaining practices include: centering prayer, kundalini yoga, mantra music and related videos, daily walks, soaks in the tub, time in nature, sharing the journey with fellow seekers, appreciating the variety of spiritual experiences that enrich our world, spending time with young children, and fixing things.

So many prayers and positive vibes went up that weekend, and continued as we traveled home and got back to our daily lives.

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Hamilton, OH About Blog A daily prayer blog by Bob Hostetler, the author of The Red Letter Prayer Life and the 31 Ways to Pray for Your Kids iPhone and iPaprayer blog by Bob Hostetler, the author of The Red Letter Prayer Life and the 31 Ways to Pray for Your Kids iPhone and iPaPrayer Life and the 31 Ways to Pray for Your Kids iPhone and iPad app.

I have personally seen people stopped from committing suicide based on their statements, healing, encouraging the ones that are discouraged or depressed, many many answered prayers, and the Lord working in the daily lives of the people in chat.

Hamilton, OH About Blog A daily prayer blog by Bob Hostetler, the author of The Red Letter Prayer Life and the 31 Ways to Pray for Your Kids iPhone and iPaprayer blog by Bob Hostetler, the author of The Red Letter Prayer Life and the 31 Ways to Pray for Your Kids iPhone and iPaPrayer Life and the 31 Ways to Pray for Your Kids iPhone and iPad app.

Muslims face towards the Kaaba during daily prayer and it is the most sacred site for Muslims to visit at least once in their life.

If you're interested in connecting faith & parenting, Here i write about Spirituality: Discovering surprising grace in daily life with kids, Spiritual Practices: Simple prayers & actions to deepen faith.

In addition to being a daily reminder when on display, I think these dishes would be great prompts to celebrate a grateful life in our prayers and discussions at meals.