Sentences with word «intercessory»

«Positive ther.apeutic effects of intercessory prayer in a coronary care unit population».

The study intended to determine whether researchers could measure the impact of intercessory prayer on spiritual well - being.

He urged journalists in the country to establish a prayer group and engage in intercessory prayers occasionally to avert any misfortune which could be as a result of the actions of their colleagues who out of fame will be seeking their downfall.

The Study on Intercessory Prayer found quite the opposite results from what you claim about ill people benefiting from it.

The Templeton Foundation's own prayer study proved that prayed not only doesn't work, it actually caused those who believed they were receiving intercessory prayers to have a HIGHER rate of post surgical complications.

Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is calling for intercessory prayers for the Northern Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bugri Naabu.

Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial.

Give Me Fifteen was birthed out of a time of intercessory worship between Julie Meyer and Dutch Sheets, after Julie shared her dream about hope to the intercessors and new life to the prayer movement.

He said Nigerians will be using intercessory night to pray God to complete the healing process of the nation and Mr. President.

The patients were randomly assigned to receive distant intercessory healing or none at all.

Islam has no saints in the sense of beings with intercessory powers who may be worshiped.

The intellectual difficulties that some Christians have with intercessory prayer may partly explain the increased contemporary interest in contemplative prayer or the prayer of silence.

But, according to the Bishop of Hippo, neither did the ancient bishopnor, for that matter, does the priest today act independently of the ecclesial community's intercessory role.

Dallas, Texas About Blog Founded by Mike & Cindy Jacobs, Generals International works to transform nations through intercessory prayer and the prophetic.Our hope is that our teaching will help you become spiritually courageous and powerfully informed about the things of God.

Two other trials found intercessory prayer had no effect on re-hospitalisation (2 RCTs, n = 1155, RR 0.93 CI 0.71 to 1.22).

Though intercessory prayer ought to lead to better and wiser service to those for whom we pray, it is not necessary to suppose that such direct person - to - person service is the only kind.

This lesson explores what intercessory prayer is and the potential problems with it.

Their placement in the worship service before intercessory prayer offers a clue as to why we neglect the needy.

The prayer at the Last Supper recorded in John 17, though mainly intercessory, has in it great overtones of thanksgiving for his disciples, for God's care of them, and for the work he has been permitted to do.

And yet some Christians don't see a problem with calling upon a divine intercessory power they fervently believe to be capable of enacting their petition to mete out bloody judgment.

In its breadth and depth this meditation on love measures up to the universal intercessory prayer which is firmly rooted in Christian liturgies as well as in the individual prayer of the great Christian saints.

Intervention The research team asked an external group offering Christian intercessory prayer to add the study's participants to their usual prayer lists.

SELECTION CRITERIA: We included any randomised trial comparing personal, focused, committed and organised intercessory prayer with those interceding holding some belief that they are praying to God or a god versus any other intervention.

Participants with cancer whom the research team randomly allocated to the experimental group to receive remote intercessory prayer showed small but significant improvements in spiritual well - being.

In the first place, if intercessory prayer did only this, it would be justified by its fruits, for certainly an important part of its answer is in what it stirs the person praying to do, or to feel, or to be, in relation to the person who is prayed for.

Thus intercessory prayer becomes, not a substitute for action in ourselves or a form of coercion upon God, but a channel to the widest divine - human co-operation.

Yet many persons who would sincerely like to believe in and practice intercessory prayer are stopped by doubts of its validity.

We need to devote ourselves to the hard work of prevailing intercessory prayer, deep study and application of our scriptures, the imitation of Christ, to sharing our great story, to ministering to the poor, keeping in step with the spirit and taking up our cross.

The bishop's intercessory journey to the Emperor and Chrysostom's famous series of sermons on the statues stand out as an example of the priestly role in appeasing the anger of rulers.

Such intercessory prayer may well have been a frequent theme in Jesus» devotional life.

General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia is calling for immediate intercessory prayers for the Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to retrace his roots.

Where can I find a Rhema Prayer Ministries - National Intercessory Prayer Ministry National President / Trustee resume example in Staten Island, New York?

We are but information providers and intercessory guideposts along the way.

In those instances I have had to content myself with worshipping from home, sometimes along with a TV show; other times I listened to a DVD or CD, reviewed notes from Bible College, or spent time in intercessory or other kinds of prayer.

That is a basis for intercessory prayer.

Remote, retroactive intercessory prayer said for a group is associated with a shorter stay in hospital and shorter duration of fever in patients with a bloodstream infection and should be considered for use in clinical practice.

Give Me Fifteen was birthed out of a time of intercessory worship between Julie Meyer and Dutch Sheets, after Julie shared her dream about hope to the intercessors and new life to the prayer movement.

Scientific experiments claiming that distant intercessory prayer produces salubrious effects are deeply flawed.

In their twofold anointing Christians receive the regal mission to bind the sinner through fraternal correction and the sacerdotal mission to loose him through intercessory prayer.

Give Me Fifteen was birthed out of a time of intercessory worship between Julie Meyer and Dutch Sheets, after Julie shared her dream about hope to the intercessors and new life to the prayer movement.

If you're looking for «objective or repeatable findings» from this, or any other study on intercessory prayer, look elsewhere.

God delegates a creative and intercessory power to us all.

People would rather be entertained than challenged, sing or listen to songs than kneel in intercessory prayer.

Conclusions: There is no scientifically discernable effect for IP (distant intercessory prayer) as assessed in controlled studies.

For them it would have happened anyway: like the person who had cancer and there was an intercessory prayer offered up and the cancer disappeared, to the unbeliever it was just a fluke because you can't give credit to something, which to them, doesn't exist.

But my co-blogger Sally Thomas spends hours and hours in the car, and I've finally found the one she needs: St. Expedito, of course, since her driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimsh, for she drives furiously and needs some intercessory expediting.