Sentences with phrase «does about prayer»

It says more about the power of the human mind over the human body than it does about prayer itself.

I remember once when we were driving and Lisa asked what I did about prayer now.

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If one of the independent variables in an outcome, (besides an actual act of god), is prayer, then think about it... you do have a brain, right?

Now, to be fair, they'll pretty much leave you alone as long as you don't «stir things up» like complaining about school prayer, especially at the HS football game.

Why when this article is about prayer, do people start diising on the Lord.

In the book of Philippians, the Apostle Paul writes «Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

I know this because for all I may not understand about the mysteries of God or prayer or love or hate, I do know this: it is impossible to hate someone if you are sincerely praying to Almighty God for their sake.

It's not about whether God exist or doesn't or whether prayer works or doesn't... geez some folks are really amazingly stupid and prejudice.

And you probably «don't care» about Governor Perry declaring a day of «prayer» because you don't pray.

3) for all your talk about taking the Bible literally, you clearly don't care about mutating the Lord's Prayer with «your own version.»

Actually Jesus you're wrong about what Atheism said, prayer changes things by not doing anything and allowing the natural (disastrous) course of events to transpire.

If we are talking about prayer then why do you need to be President?

Of course, there are things we need to learn about family and God that does come from the scriptures and church and prayer and revelation.

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

And the Bible says that man does this because they prefer darkness, the opportunity to rob and cheat and hurt and lie to each other apart from God, apart from prayer and apart from caring even about their fellow man.

If they want to speak about their god or afterlife or ask for a prayer, I hope whoever is there will do so.

The Bible contains a lot of interesting stories, talks between people, between God (Jesus) and people, wisdom (proverbs), prophecy (revelation), words of salvation (the 4 gospels, the epistles), historical data, like dates, locations, names of people involved in the stories, parables, reports about miracles, Jesus did, songs, prayers, psalms etc...

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?).

Hmm — whose prayers change things, and why doesn't all prayer change things... a friend asked for a new house — got one; another friend asked to be cured from leukemia, God didn't answer her prayers — she died; another friend asked for wisdom on how to care for her elderly father, an alcoholic — still drinks, she still has no knowledge on what to do about it — never thought to maybe look up information about elder care.

You know what they say about prayer,» Prayer: Doing nothing and still think you're helping» I'll keep you posted on whether they are making any chprayer,» Prayer: Doing nothing and still think you're helping» I'll keep you posted on whether they are making any chPrayer: Doing nothing and still think you're helping» I'll keep you posted on whether they are making any changes.

See, try to run for president, and talk about faith and prayer in the same way that Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich do.

Now think about the excuses Christians give when God does not «answer prayers.»

Approaching someone about sin should something that is done with a lot of thought and prayer.

And, when she describes that change, what she ends up describing is what already more - or-less exists, namely: mainline christianity, embracing the reformed and the catholic, the scientific and the traditional, which has been doing (never perfectly, to be sure) the sort of deep thinking, social justice, and disciplined prayer that she talks about continually while the evangelicals were breaking off to do their own thing (the thing she seems to want them to stop doing) throughout the twentieth century.

I've been devastated to find that satan has planted himself so firmly into the church and is leading people away from the truth about who Jesus is and what He did on the cross, and keeping Christians from prayer and evangelism, focusing instead on attacking believers and turning them from simple faith in Christ to Calvinism.

Some 80 years later President McKinley, stymied about what to do in the Philippines, went into a late - night, down - on - the - knees prayer session in the White House and emerged with a different vision.

So to bring it into a Bible study, to bring it into talking about prayer, to talk about living with trauma as part of a fallen world, may help it become a more generalized topic where we don't have to be ashamed to name that we're broken and that we struggle.

as far as IM concerned topher is nOT doing it so he can fell better.your argument does NOT support your response (topher only does it dso he can feel better about himself) Topher beliecves strongly the prayer works regardless of what YOU think ok?

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.

I don't think simply saying a prayer and going about your life the way you used to does it, and it's because of the scriptures I listed above.

I didn't see this applying to any legislative act, nor did I see that this was a conversation about funding, The case you are siting was a school system FORCING kids to say a particular prayer.

A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.

It's amazing to think about providing young people with the form of a lament or a prayer and then inviting them to create their own the way they do in poetry circles.

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.

The odd thing about prayer — it doesn't seem to matter which god / goddess you pray to.

My prayer is, «Lord, don't let me believe the same thing about you tomorrow that I do today.»

Now 15 years later, you have Chance the Rapper doing stuff with Kirk Franklin; you have Kendrick talking extremely openly about his faith; Ty Dolla $ ign is on Lecrae's album; Kesha's doing a prayer song.

The parents are urged to teach the children how to pray so that by the age of nine they should know everything about the prayers, including the proper ablutions to be done before prayers.

The scholar metaphor is useful for worship and Bible study, but books like Andrew Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer don't have much to say about faithfulness in the workplace.

And of course there would be those on the right, advocating for Muslim prayer in schools, not worrying about how the few Christian children might be impacted, and doing whatever they can to write bits of Sharia into the law of the land.

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.

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?

An opening prayer of confession sometimes does little more than suggest that worship is primarily about our failures rather than God's triumphs.

There is no denying that the various styles of prayer, adoration, meditation, contemplation, thanksgiving and supplication are all spoken about, but because the speakers talk about prayer in a familiar way they do not really cover specific types of prayer.

The main reason a church might want to consider letting prayer meetings cease is that even when prayer meetings are healthy and people don't learn bad types of praying, they still teach people bad habits about prayer.

I have heard thousands of prayers in prayer meetings that are genuine, heart - felt, meaningful, conversations with God about Who He is, what He has done, and how we would like Him to help us live life and serve Him better.

I profess no advanced psychiatric knowledge, but such knowledge as a layman may have about the causes of disturbance to the human spirit is here placed in conjunction with what prayer can do.

To be serious I loved what you wrote Jeremy about praying in the Will of God, after all if we say the Lords prayer we do say Thy will be done not My will be done.

I hope it can work for me since I don't want to live another year like that even I have prayed for three years about this problem with all the prayer knowledge I have in the past.Although there are still many things I don't understand about my situation, I will keep on trusting my Lord that he will make everything works out for good.If anyone can see my reply, please pray to Jesus and ask Him to has more mercy on me.

@ Brigette — yeah, I don't want to be a Hare Krishna either... I do like what you say regarding thinking about your parents and grandparents teaching you the prayers — nice sentiment there even for folks like me who don't pray anymore.