Sentences with phrase «few prayers for»

You see there's a well intended but unbalanced guy who thinks — because I place flowers at the feet of the statue, the one that I call «Mother of Abundance,» and offer a few prayers for the mothers and children — that I'm practicing idolatry.

Our son is adjusting well to having a different bedtime routine and it's because we've followed that book (and said a few prayers for help!).

Not exact matches

I've been traveling in Vietnam for the last few weeks and have been impressed by the consistency of prayer and ritual in every shop or office.

But despite his prominence and the enormous physical capacity of Lakewood Church, Osteen initially responded to Harvey with plenty of prayers, but few concrete plans for action.

In fact, I recently got an email from a friend whom I helped train for a short - term trip a few summers ago; she was asking for prayer for some friends that she met in downtown Toronto.

because we know how much effect prayer has ever had: absolutely none (other than keeping a lot of idiots occupied for a while, and a few other non-divine side effects)

You must have either read my mind, or my post (a few lines down) wherein I responded to «Atheism's» «Prayer changes things» by saying: «Yep, I'm sure those 9 -1-1 terrorists (if you believe they were terrorists, and not government operatives... but that's another post for another blog...) were doing a lot of praying... and, boy, did they change things!»

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.

Jesus taught us how to pray and I put a few scriptures together below so I myself could learn his will for me in prayer: http://followingjesuschrist3.com/2015/01/29/prayer-a-brief-thought-from-the-scriptures/

So there is a wait time of a few thousand years for prayers to be answered?

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

When we discussed structured prayer a few weeks ago, I forgot to mention how this practice has helped me pray for you, my readers.

Within a few years, Bishops were asking for Madonna House staff to open houses in their dioceses, to live the Gospel of Love through soup kitchens, prayer houses, houses of hospitality and friendship.

Apart from the Lord's Prayer, what few practical «rules» for praying that Jesus did offer can be reduced to three slogans: keep it secret (Matt.

(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.

There are fewer pitfalls in the prayer for spiritual help than in the petition for special gifts.

Not so far, but until the last few months, I haven't been in a group prayer setting (except with a close friend who prays the same way) for years...

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

It has taken some time for seminaries to comprehend Underhill's ideas, and many have not yet done more than present a course on prayer, monasticism or spiritual discipline once every few years.

You said «ignorance is to be pitied» well you must get a lot of pity from the few who know you and I will pray the same prayer for you that Jesus did for mankind «Forgive them Lord for they KNOW NOT what they do.»

And I'm waiting for the day when a prayer from the cell goes through... you know, a direct connection with God Also, I've been reading your Z - theory... interesting, but I have to reread it a few times to be able to wrap my brain around it.

«I thank thee, Father,» he is recorded to have said, in one of the very few echoes of his personal prayers that have come through into the gospels — «I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and wise, and revealing them to the simple.»

I engaged in intense prayer and meditation for quite a few years from adolescence on into adulthood and it seems to me that I succeeded in altering my brain's neurophysiology / chemistry significantly to the point where I could make a living from being a psychic or a spirit medium.

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.

Sit back relax and be polite, next time someone wants to take a few minutes for prayer or to thank their God, close your ears and take a few minutes to reflect on your own life and what you have done to better man kind.

Few would argue that prayer isn't of vital importance for the people of God.

Within a few months, following a financial crisis in New York, 10,000 people were gathering for lunchtime prayer meetings, with many churches opening their doors for prayer.

Even as late as the 16th century, the future Edward VI of England received confirmation a few days after birth; soon thereafter, the first prayer book of his reign mandated knowledge of the catechism as requisite for confirmation.

It is meant not for the few but for «all sorts and conditions of men,» as the Prayer Book declares.

But the candle is lit for a few hours, I'll remember you and put on faith and hope, my prayers are joining with yours, life can be a little unsatisfying — it's okay to admit it out loud — and I've got a river of life flowing out of me.

With a few important (and expected) exceptions» notably the partial «birth abortion case and a silly but destructive football prayer decision» the term was cause for celebration.

Just a few weeks after the Houston prayer rally, roughly 200 religious leaders from across the country, mostly evangelicals, descended on a San Antonio - area ranch for the chance to meet Perry and his wife.

All of these are valuable within the life of believers, but there are a few things that the church can do to help make preaching, doctrinal statements, prayer meetings, and evangelism more effective for the mission of the church.

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

I had been volunteering at this medium - security prison for only a few months when he asked for individual prayer.

A few minutes later we are invited to interact with some prayer stations for the city that have been set up at various points around the worship space.

[4] Maybe he overstated the power of prayer a little bit, for I believe that most of what God does, he does without anybody praying for it, but I think John Wesley has hit on something that so few of us really grasp.

We may now pass more rapidly over the other elements in the natural movement of prayer, for though vitally essential they present fewer problems.

I think she understands the power of prayer as, when I asked her what she was mumbling in the back of the car a few weeks after Fraser was born, she said she was «asking God for a baby sister.»

What it should actually say is, «Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lenten season, when A FEW Christians take time to prepare for Easter (actually Ostara) through a time of fasting and prayer AND THE COLLECTION OF CHOCOLATE BUNNIES AND EGGS AND NEW CLOTHES FOR SPRIfor Easter (actually Ostara) through a time of fasting and prayer AND THE COLLECTION OF CHOCOLATE BUNNIES AND EGGS AND NEW CLOTHES FOR SPRIFOR SPRING.

Rather than meet simply to pray, meet to go serve the community, and before you go, spend a few minutes in prayer for eyes to see and ears to hear the needs and issues that people in the neighborhood are dealing with.

When Arsene Wenger signed Lucas Perez forArsenal in the final days of the summer transfer window, it answered the prayers of many Arsenal fans who had been calling for the boss to sign a new striker for the last few years!

We, Clemson, Ohio State, and a few elite others will and do pay absurd money to keep our best coaches, which forces other aspirant schools to pay out for hopes, dreams, and prayers, often with poor results.

At meals, everyone at table joins hands as they say grace — the prayer is nothing exotic; just a standard thanksgiving to God for the blessings of the table and the day and a few requests that He watch out for the well - being of the diners.

But I will say this — as my husband and I trudged through the strenuous process of potty training our daughter, I found myself saying more than just a few silent prayers of gratitude for the gift of adequate bladder and bowel control.

Feldheim Publishers puts out a small book called «Aneni: Special Prayers for Special Occasions» which has a few for pregnant and delivering women, but they are considerably tamer than those I've seen in old prayerbooks [which are usually in Yiddish, occasionally in Hebrew].

For a few hours Saturday, the streets of a West Side neighborhood notorious for drugs, gangs and murder were given over to prayFor a few hours Saturday, the streets of a West Side neighborhood notorious for drugs, gangs and murder were given over to prayfor drugs, gangs and murder were given over to prayer.

As the national debate rages on over what's causing the temperature to rise, New York continues to brace for its next storm, and its next, and its next... all mingled with prayers and hopes that none are as bad as the last few.

Engaging in a self - compassion exercise (basically prayer, meditation, or positive thinking) even just for a few minutes has been found to significantly lower cortisol levels and improve heart rate variability, providing an immediate soothing physiological response.

Hold for a few breaths and inhale to straighten out of the pose, releasing the hands down into a prayer.