Sentences with phrase «intercession for»

It is Christ that died, or rather, rose from the dead...» «Who ALSO lives to make intercession for us.»

Since this is a priestly prayer, it is prayed in intercession for the disciples.

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered.

We pray not only for our own needs but in intercession for the needs of our neighbors, our sisters, our brothers, our earth.

If the Christ of Israel was in very fact the Word who is God in Person, then we must be able to show the continuity in this Church of the life, the action, the authority of very God, ever living to make intercession for us, ever operating with divine efficacy, ever teaching with divine infallibility: otherwise the Incarnation is an irrelevance of human history.

He would do so knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, the supreme power of intercession for the wounds of humanity and its sins, of praise and glory for all that God has made beautiful and just.

Intercession for the state is the most central task of a church.

But intercession for others and for the causes which seem good to us, and petition for ourselves and that which we think is needful for us, are also part — although not the first or primary part — of prayer.

We hear nothing of the dereliction of Christ, of his intercession for sinners, or of his exaltation as the crucified yet ever - living Lord.

He is in person for ever the Crucified who makes intercession for his own.

12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Through its witnessing stance in its own situation, its prayers of intercession for churches in other parts of the world, and its sharing of persons and resources, it participates fully in the world mission of the Christian Church.

Indeed, prayer may change the attitude of the pray - er, and intercession for the suffering may inspire action to help them.

From the moment of the «Big Bang» through to the intercession for us of Christ and his saints, we are in the presence of one continuous ministry, in which we create or destroy in the order of being - of reality - for ourselves and upon our brothers and sisters.

This book is worth buying just for an appendix that gives various prayers: the dedication of England to the Mother of God and St Peter; the litany of intercession for England; prayer from the Mass of English martyrs; an old prayer for the Conversion of England; and a prayer to beg the prayers of the saints.

Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

He is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them (7:25).

The activity of the Church as a priesthood making intercession for all men, offering thanks and praise on behalf of all, now requires the minister's devoted leadership in a particular way.

However if that is so, why does scripture say of Jesus that if any man sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, who lives to make intercession for the saints?

It is an age which accepts a corporate sense of responsibility: the guilt (or the merit — see the story of Abraham's intercession for Sodom and Gomorrah in ch.

It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.»

The suffering servant / Savior passage of Isaiah 53 does not explicitly teach His resurrection, but does speak of His bearing the sin of many and making intercession for the transgressors (Isa53: 12).

It is not a declaration of what is, but intercession for what shall be.

Romans 8:26 (KJV) Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered.

... the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now... but the Spirit intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words... In Romans 8, St. Paul's witness leads into the mysterious depths of the Paraclete's ceaseless intercession for the church and all creation.

The little things we do, the love we share, the time we spend for intercession for others, the visits we make to the sick in the hospital — however feeble they are, however much they seem fruitless at the beginning, they are not wasted, they will bear fruit in their own time.

Her daily life revolves around it, and because of it she becomes a point of intercession for the needs of many.

Since when do we need to be appointed to prayer when God has called all of His children to comfort others and make intercession for other people.

Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.»

The personal devotion of a Christian, we may then say in conclusion, has for its goal precisely that which Christian worship, in the sense of the cult, has for its goal: the offering of self to God, even in our intercessions for others and for ourselves.

It is only when we are wrestling with problems that desperately bother us, only when we are involved with others in such a way that their troubles become our own, that our petitions for ourselves and our intercessions for others can have much reality.

One involves kneeling at a side chapel and praying intercessions for the city, which are recorded onto a cassette tape.

Not exact matches

Intercession and worship combined have sustained enjoyable prayer, and the fire on the altar has not gone out for nine years!

1 Timothy 2: 1 - 4 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

Intercession has become more important and we value those committed to this task as we all are encouraged to seek his will for us.

«I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

In asking saints in heaven to pray for us, we follow Paul's instructions: «I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,» for «this is good and pleasing to God our Savior» (1 Tim.

The verses says... 1I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone — 2for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

Our prayers to the saints in heaven, asking for their prayers for us and their intercession with Jesus Christ do not undermine Christ's role as sole Mediator.

Thus the priest was ever ready for service at the altar and in intercession.

To young priests and seminarians of the first decades of the 21st century, he is the hero figure of the later decades of the 20th, and as such a priest and bishop for the modern era whose style and message, insights and vision are a model for them to follow, as well as a saint whose intercession they seek and to whose influence many attribute their discernment of a call to the priesthood.

When the congregation I serve initiated a prayer chain several years ago, its participants were amazed at the response: healing intercessions requested for all manner of illnesses and ailments — physical, emotional, 1 spiritual, societal.

Catholics ask for the intercession of the saints and angels — and each other here on earth as well.

This solidarity in the end redefines what the church means when it says «poor,» for the prayers of the church, and the actions that make those intercessions informed prayers, challenge the isolation that is generally inherent in poverty.

Supplication for material benefits was the primitive beginning of prayer, and the development of Biblical thought in this regard is measured by the distance between two typical intercessions:

(E.g., I Thessalonians 5:25; Hebrews 13:18) Such intercession, however, uniformly concerned the spiritual estate of the church and its members, as in Paul's petition for his Ephesian friends:

The Holy Prophet (SAW), Also said to communicate to others even if you listen One Verse (Ayaah) & this one verse will stand on the Day of Judgment for intercession

Professor Rice always ended his appeals by entreating his listeners to prayer — «The most effective, practical thing we can do for Notre Dame is to pray, especially through the intercession of Mary, the Mother of God.

(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.

But on this foundation it sets a temporary superstructure of cultic apparatus for mediating covenant communion with God; and this apparatus the New Testament replaces with the new and better covenant (that is, the better version of God's one gracious covenant) which is founded on better promises and maintained by the sacrifice and intercession of Jesus Christ, the better and greater high priest.