Sentences with phrase «in prayer meeting»

We now turn to another shocking type of prayer you might hear in a prayer meeting or from a pulpit.

«Certain - seeking faith» is the sort of faith that people were trying to exercise in the prayer meeting I just talked about.

The Benefit of the Doubt is really the outcome of that line of questioning that began in that prayer meeting so many years ago.

In prayer meeting I either sit, stand.

«Now, we didn't get the idea to start #ThisFlag in the prayer meeting, but I'll tell you what, those prayer meetings we were having contributed immensely, so that when the opportunity presented itself quite accidentally, we felt as if God had opened the door that we had been asking him for.»

Does the student pray often enough and long enough in prayer meeting?

I remember one tie sharing in a prayer meeting about loving yourself to then be able to love others.

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.

While there are many good things that happen in prayer meetings, it is also where we sometimes pick up some bad habits about prayer.

I have sometimes been in prayer meetings where people clearly lose their train of thought, or they don't really know how to pray for the issue at hand, and so rather than pause, or stumble around for the right words, or simply pray wrongly and let God sort it out (He doesn't mind), the person instead starts to «speak in tongues,» thus trying to impress everybody with their spirituality.

I don't know if you have ever been in prayer meetings where people do this sort of thing.

How about the use of tongues in prayer meetings?

In my experience, tongues only seems to be used in prayer meetings when the person does not know what to pray, or because they want to appear super spiritual.

But the things we learn in prayer meetings would never occur to someone who had not ever attended a prayer meeting.

Frank Viola has noticed many similar patterns in prayer meetings, and in his book Finding Organic Church, he writes this:

It is in prayer meetings where we learn that prayer must be said in a certain location, using certain terminology and language, and sitting, or standing, or kneeling in a certain posture.

In prayer meetings in meeting someone and the Lord gives me a word for them and they are a complete stranger.

It is in prayer meetings that people learn the repetitive use of God's name and certain phrases and to use 1611 King James English.

In the prayer meetings I attend we quite often have the same burden put on us by God in what or who to pray for.

Exceptions are made for Native American churchgoers, who are allowed by law to use peyote in prayer meetings, and members of a branch of a Brazilian - based church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who have won court battles for the right to use the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca in their religious rituals.

Not exact matches

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 TorontIn 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 Torontin downtown Toronto.

In early scenes she is seen at prayer meetings, where the pastor tells her that Jesus will shield her if she encounters evil.

After much discussion, study, and prayer over the course of a year, the statement «The Gift of Salvation» was agreed to at a meeting in New York City in October 1997, and published in the January 1998 issue of this journal.

The Catholic Church is being invited to meet the risen Lord in Scripture, the sacraments, and prayer, and to make friendship with him the center of Catholic life.

Now, if this prayer meeting was held in, say, an aircraft in flight, with the pilots bailing out at 40,000 ft..

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.

Today, the Supreme Court finally weighed in on the hotly debated Town of Greece VS. Galloway case, determining that public meetings can start with «religion specific - prayer» (i.e. «In Jesus» name...»in on the hotly debated Town of Greece VS. Galloway case, determining that public meetings can start with «religion specific - prayer» (i.e. «In Jesus» name...»In Jesus» name...»).

The Supreme Court's 5 - 4 majority sided with Greece, saying that Town Hall meetings can start with prayer — falling in line with both public support and the White House.

As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7 prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night — let alone enjoy the experience!

Although it might also include opposing government encroachment on civil rights, such as, banning personal prayer in school, banning student led prayer groups and meet - at - the - flag - pole groups, and banning Muslism garb.

@SeanNJ, I would think the meetings would primarily be about educating the public on the separation of church and state and opposing religious encroachment on the public / government arena, e.g. creationism / ID in the science classroom, ten commandments displays in government buildings, school sanctioned prayer or religious activities.

The proselytizing prayer of this person must be met in kind.

Our forefathers met in what they called a prayer cottage.

Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

Apparently, Christians are so shaky in their beliefs that missing a prayer in a government meeting will cause them problems.

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

This is the church of the Council of Trent, that series of meetings in the 16th century which, in reaction to the Reformation, declared the Roman Catholic Church the sole vehicle of salvation, defined the nature of the seven necessary sacraments, approved prayers to the saints and set down the requirement of attending mass.

Bible studies and prayer meetings are not the only acts of worship you can do in college.

«The board will conduct its meeting in an atmosphere of prayer, contemplation and dialogue and will develop a plan to involve LCWR membership in similar processes,» the group said in a statement.

The town outside Rochester began allowing prayers to start its meetings in 1999, after years of having a moment of silence.

But they don't leave it there — they want to set laws based upon their religious beliefs, set school curricula based upon their religious beliefs, have their religious prayers in public meetings, put their religious texts on public buildings, etc..

In many cases, it's appropriate to mark a person's departure in a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group settinIn many cases, it's appropriate to mark a person's departure in a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group settinin a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group setting.

We met in the lobby of the Washington Hilton the night before last month's National Prayer Breakfast.

If these women do nt want to hear it, do nt want to have their meeting begin with the prayers to some pretend men in the sky who do nt exist, if that feels absurd to them, if they'd prefer the meetings me grounded in reality and good conscious decisions..

The Kingdom is often taking root in small ways — in our kitchens and in our parish halls, in our streets and our subsidized daycares, in youth group mentoring relationships and after - school care, in prayer circles and by - law meetings at city council.

In a 5 - 4 decision written by Kennedy, the Supreme Court allowed Greece, New York, to continue hosting prayers before its monthly town board meetings - even though an atheist and a Jewish citizen complained that the benedictions are almost always explicitly Christian.

«We accept anyone who wants to come in and volunteer to give the prayer to open up our town meetings.»

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.