Sentences with phrase «good prayer life»
Cultivate a good prayer life and connect with the Holy Spirit, the greatest comforter.
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Friend GII Lovito said on Facebook: «Please say a prayer for the family of an amazing girl I got to call my best friend growing up Meadow Pollack... her life was taken way too soon and I have no words to describe how this feels.
If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.
If there is a God and he is truly just, he will judge me based on my merits of helping fellow humans and making the world a better place to live, not how many times I dropped to my knees, clapped my hands together and chanted prayers.
Prayer changed my life for the better.
Hikerstud Prayer changed my life for the better.
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...
Andrew, I understand what you're saying completely because I was a christian for the first half of my life, and I had the same opinion about prayer and emotional well - being.
Our prayers are not to alter the will of a sovereign God who remains forever unchangeable, but instead, prayer molds our disfigured and malleable wills to be like His perfect will, as well as operating as a means of revealing His character to us through a personal interaction with His word that has been intricately meshed together with our lives.
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 have to find my own rhythm, and when I find it I know how to fit my prayer life in and how to fit in my devotional time as well as how to fit in bedtime stories.
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.
Aw there was no need for them to pray that prayer because sinful living has its own consequences we creat the hurt and pain on ourselves when we chose to live life the way we want to.Personally i think the prayer was misdirected however there hearts were in the right place because they wanted the best for you.God is not like us he does nt want to punish he wants to forgive and to heal and love us even when we are sinners.I am thankful that you chose to follow the Lord and he forgives you for the things in your past because he loves and has always loved you because he created you brentnz
Nobody ever expressed it better than did St. Francis in the closing words of his beloved prayer: «It is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.»
Christians might be better served looking to Christ for an example and examining their own lives for what their faith calls sin, rather than wasting time chasing the sin of others, even if only in prayer.
Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz
none of these prayers are dangerous, for example if you pray to become like jesus, and god downgrades your life and you lose your house and car etc, this is good, as God is happier with those who don't value the material things in this temporary world, and your only going to achieve heaven with Gods happiness
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.
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.
When, centuries later, Brother Lawrence described prayer as establishing oneself «in a sense of God's presence by continually conversing with Him,» (The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, «First Conversation.»)
In the first place, no amount of prayer will take the place of right discernment of good and evil through standards set by the outlook of Jesus, of right calculation of the probable consequences of our acts, of right knowledge and judgment of the total situation in which our lives are set.
My prayer life isn't great, and I imagine that most of my prayers are quite selfish as well.
Beside preaching, explicit instruction in prayer by the pastoral leader best acquaints parishioners with the master vision of the life of the congregation as a corporate journey toward maturing in the Christian life.
Jeremy, I am living in Hong Kong and I wonder if anyone from my city will read this post since most of them are not good in English.Even they are good in English, they probably won't help a stranger over the internet.It is because there are already many scam cases happen in my city and face book as well.Many people are afraid of that already.Anyway, I think if anybody has nay good information, I am willing to listen and I am looking for more prayer support as well.Thank you for your reply and may God bless you more everyday.
They might be some of the best places to go to learn about powerful prayer, costly discipleship, death to self, life in community.
(ENTIRE BOOK) This book is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and prayer.
And if you take the Christian life one day at a time, one step at a time, and go from one answered prayer request to another, from one time of Sunday fellowship to another, from one blessing of God to another, one good Christian friend to another, one prayer partner to another.
With this prayer, Augustine points to the summum bonum of both this world and the next: not the only good, but the highest, the one that gives life to all the rest.
Anthony Horan, director of the Office said in a statement: «The celebration of Holy Mass, the summit of Catholic life, is an opportunity to express prayers for the work of our elected representatives and for the common good of society.
They vary from prayers for good crops to prosperity, national prestige, long life and a glorious reign for the emperor, etc..
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.
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.
After I wrote that post, I was reading some other blogs and found another prayer that would be a good life prayer.
We go to him, shaking in our shoes, wringing our hands, begging for a better life, or for things to work out, or simply for Him to hear our prayers.
He is careful in how he introduces these prayers (he says they are only to verbalize or express your acceptance of God's invitation), but due to the long tradition of requiring a «sinner's prayer» to receive eternal life, it may have been best to leave them out.
It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.
It certainly is good to have finally found out that Christianity is nothing more than just tradition, ritual and culture and that all the things which the Bible says about God and prayer are not true — God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct anyone or put thoughts in anyone's mind or show them signs or speak to their heart or mind or tells them what to do or calls people or chooses people or has a plan for people's lives whether they are in an altered state of consciousness / transcendent state or whether they are in an unaltered cognitive state.
I figured this was very good example of Life Together Prayer book of the Bible.
They have not succeeded and will not succeed because the well - spring of piety and prayer from which it comes is itself the perennial source of nearly two millennia of the Church's living tradition: the lex orandi, lex credendi.
It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»
I am shocked by the Christian teachings that instruct people specifically «how» to study God's Word in the «right» way — «how much time to spend» praying and studying the Bible — «how» to come to the «right» interpretation of each Scripture verse / passage (guided by them — tying the hands of God and Jesus» Holy Spirit, and ignoring that God's Word is living and active...)-- insistence that increased Bible study, prayer and intersession, by their sheer weight, automatically make us closer to being better Christians — closer to perfection and more pleasing to our Lord and Savior.
«My hope and prayer is that it will help us remember those who lost their lives, bring comfort and strength to the bereaved, and point a way to a better future.»
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.
Now that I do not watch nearly as much, my thinking is clearer, my relationship with God is more intimate, my prayer life more meaningful, my sleep is better, my temptations are fewer, I now have more time with Wendy and my girls, I have more hours in my day.
Spiritual activities like prayer, thanksgiving, and the making of sacrifices were well - established facts of life for the existence and continuation of the community.
I swear to God, in whose hand is my life, that marching about morning and evening to fight for religion is better than the world and everything that is in it: and verily the standing of one of you in the line of battle is better than supererogatory prayers performed in your house for sixty years.36
while breifly going thru this artical it was makeing my stomach turn, this is just what the devil wants is for doubt and confusion, christianity is growing stronger than ever, souls are being saved and lives are changing every day, and do nt for one minute think any different, or try tp put christians down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone»»
Grace; forgiveness of sin belief but them comes hell, prayer; fasting certain rituals; penance certain meeting reading verses; join the Republican be a good Conservative they are saved protection of life in the Womb but what about every one else?.