Sentences with phrase «for prayer meetings»

And while I'm on the subject, the same goes for prayer meetings.

Has it ever seemed strange to you that although there can be dozens of people out in the community loving others, serving the poor, meeting needs, and helping the homeless, the «truly spiritual people» are those who come to church on Wednesday night for the prayer meeting where they pray for the poor, the homeless, and the other needs of the community?

I was born and raised in a Fundamentalist family, went to church twice on Sundays, and Wednesdays for prayer meeting.

Not exact matches

We thank our family and friends, those we know and those we have never met, for their thoughts and prayers.»

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.

Organize a prayer group and meet regularly with three parishioners you trust implicitly for critique, support, and, as the name says, prayer.

Look, there's very legitimate criticism to be made of Perry for politically allying with these folks, given their proclivity for mixing prayer meeting and political rallies, given the Hagee connection, and some other stuff.

Bill meets a child - murderer in prison, who screams a prayer every night for Jesus Christ to «take back [his] suicide.»

The case started in the little town of Greece, New York, where city officials have been starting meetings with prayer for some time.

Over the Pentecost weekend earlier this year, tens of thousands convened across the nation for «Kingdom Come» prayer meetings.

Muslim and Christian children in Syria are meeting next month to gather in prayer for an end to the region's brutal war.

We prayed for Harry and Sally at the prayer meeting and Bible study on Wednesday night, and not one week later, our prayer was answered!

For roughly a decade, it invited local Christians — and only Christians — to offer prayers opening its Town Board meetings.

That's Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's advice for atheists and others who object to sectarian prayers before government meetings.

Shortly after I first met my friend and mentor Ray Ortlund, he gave me a copy of his book A Passion for God: Prayers and Meditations on the Book of Romans.

An answer to that petition came for me some years ago when a Quaker friend invited me to meet regularly with a small group to share prayer practices.

I used to feel Christ in my prayers and church meetings but now it feels like the feeling is gone and it is so hard for me.

I am then forced either to participate in the prayer, waste my time sitting through the prayer (and get noticed for not participating), or worse yet, arrive late to the meeting.

Group led prayer is offensive and completely inappropriate at a business meeting for ALL of the the people.

How do we think they are always going to be in agreement for prayers inside of a government meeting.

If you were at a meeting and after the prayer you got up and went to the podium and said, «god is a fairytale, thanks for wasting our time, now can we get to the peoples business?»

All government meetings should start with a prayer to Yahweh Maccaddeshcem, so that he can guide us in the right direction for our communities and selecting the right people to lead our government offices.

Prayers cause DELAY and wastes time for others waiting for the meetings to start.

That's one of the things that make this whole issue so absurd — religious people demand the right to government - led prayer (a prayer that meets with their approval, of course), but the things they'll typically ask for in their prayers can't be by accomplished by their god anyway, so it's a lot of unnecessary trouble over nothing.

For example, I have a weekly prayer meeting to which only three men attend (sometimes it is just me).

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

For example, have you ever noticed that the true «prayer warriors» of the typical church rarely come to «Prayer meetings&rprayer warriors» of the typical church rarely come to «Prayer meetings&rPrayer meetings»?

So I resist the crowd and extend to each person I meet a soft smile and a prayer for a sober warm celebration.

It is no different then my mom in law sending in the names to some catholic prayer society so that people I know that she may have met once are being prayed for.

Still, of course, in the US most prayers would be Christian, with smaller percentage of prayers being devoted to other faiths, and then the occasional meeting with no prayer at all, for the athiests.

What if I told you that your prayers could still change the outcome of dire situations for those you have never met and bring about results you may never hear about?

For centuries it has served as the main center for the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radFor centuries it has served as the main center for the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radfor the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radfor Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radfor careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radio.

This nation whether we like it or not was built on judeo - christian values and that is a fact you can search out history Congress had prayer meetings and sought God for guidance every time they came together and they read the Bible together.

(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.

Again, if 10 or 20 people are meeting in a living room two or three times a week for prayer and discussion, they can easily take those discussions on the road, and find a place in the community to serve as part of their weekly community activity.

Another cause for concern is the way the christian agenda is pushed right here: christian religious beliefs to be taught as science, christian religious texts on public buildings, christian prayers at public meetings, christian beliefs as law, etc..

Note that I am not talking about praying less, but only about the official «prayer meetings» at church, which often become a substitute for action.

Members of the Synagogue met several times a week for prayer and teaching, often met together for meals, and supported one another as needs became known.

Just as Robert's Rules of Order is the traditional secular guide to meeting procedure, prayer, Standish insists, is the foundation for a spiritual church.

There does seem to be some sort of gathering for prayer here and there in Scripture, but as you point out, I don't think they looked like our prayer meetings today.

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?

What is the Gospel for those who want to live life with God, but can not read Scripture, attend church, or go to prayer meetings?

And when I asked to go there for prayer, he met me, and unlocked the doors at 11PM.

Last night, while the group I meet with gathered for prayer, we began praying for Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iran....

The silent prayer can be carried out for a specific time — say 5 or 10 minutes and timed by the chair person for the meeting, after the time slotted the chair person just needs to say «thank you» and the prayers is done.

So I did it for a Bible study and prayer meeting every now and then.

And even though I don't believe in the symbolism of the cross, I can not deny the historical role this particular «cross» artifact had in the aftermath of the tragedy as a meeting and prayer place for rescue workers etc., which makes it museum worthy.

It was a focal point for many during the aftermath, rescue and clean - up workers often meeting there several times a day for prayers.

As president of the Chicago YMCA for four years, he championed evangelistic causes such as distributing tracts all over the city, and he held daily noon prayer meetings.

To Gattis, staff meetings are «worshipful work,» with times of silence for prayer and discernment woven into them.