Place your hands
into prayer with your thumbs at your heart center.
Not exact matches
Tarr and other students like Emma Gonzalez (the senior
with the shaved head) and David Hogg (targeted by conspiracy theorists because his father once worked for the FBI) have, virtually on their own, turned what could have become another impotent «thoughts and
prayers» response to a massacre
into a national movement to transform the nation's gun laws.
if your so called god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they go to confession and say 10 worthless and meaningless
prayers, don!t you think god would forgive a person the tales birth control, if there really was a god, which there is not, I do not believe in god or wasting time going to church to try to get myself
into the dream world heaven, but if I am wrong I am going to hell because that's where all my friends are going and I don, t want to hang out for eternity
with you morons in heaven.
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...
And you will also be hearing much from the anti-Christs who will try to sway you
into not saying the
prayer of salvation but you must bear in mind that they will not be
with you to defend you when you pass on and are before God.
My relationship
with God is as natural as it is
with any other person; going back
into a situation where your walk is a «regiment» of reading,
prayer, attending, singing, etc. is seriously a challenge, and I'm not sure what to do at this point... especially when confronted
with «so how did you like this or that?»
Want to do it again
with his promise that
prayer works absolutely as you ask, including having a mountain throw itself
into the sea?
Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter
with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight
into prayer:
Some 80 years later President McKinley, stymied about what to do in the Philippines, went
into a late - night, down - on - the - knees
prayer session in the White House and emerged
with a different vision.
So to bring it
into a Bible study, to bring it
into talking about
prayer, to talk about living
with trauma as part of a fallen world, may help it become a more generalized topic where we don't have to be ashamed to name that we're broken and that we struggle.
Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people
into an authentic personal relationship
with the living God, and most of our meetings even close
with a recitation of the Lord's
Prayer.
The author uses the image of a cross — the «vertical and horizontal dimensions of Communion» — to lead
into the Lord's
Prayer and to show this intimate prayer incarnated in the Sign of Peace with one's neig
Prayer and to show this intimate
prayer incarnated in the Sign of Peace with one's neig
prayer incarnated in the Sign of Peace
with one's neighbour.
Maggie fell asleep in arms and I stayed to pray a bit longer even though I still had three more to tuck
into bed
with books and songs and
prayers, too.
You are right, I do not pray since I am not a believer, but I'm attempting to resolve what appear to me to be conflicting Christian ideas, namely
prayer and free will (along
with the idea that everything happens according to your god's plan, but that's a separate issue we don't need to go
into now).
Prayer of the Day: «O God, who before the passion of your only begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed
into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Praying these
prayers is helpful in maintaining awareness of your relationship to the Christ, but there's no real need to pray them, because all of those things come
with the territory when you enter
into the Spirit, whether you ask for them or not.
There will be great pageantry that summer morning in Wells Cathedral, its soaring spaces filled
with the singing of the choir and the
prayers of the hundreds of people crammed
into its nave, led by Bishop Peter
with his mitre and crozier.
They want some big splashy teaching, like for instance — a course in miracles, rather than putting
into practice in very practical ways
with the people around them what the Isaiah says God requires (i.e. — love, patience,
prayer, meditation, hopefulness, justice, etc).
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
The code of laws provides the regulations which create the proper relations between man and God, such as saying
prayers, fasting, and other religious duties; they guide man in his relations
with his brother in Islam or the non-Muslim community, in organizing the structure of the family and encouraging reciprocal affection; they lead man to an understanding of his place in the universe, encouraging research
into the nature of man and animals and guiding man in the use of the benefits of the natural world.
Joy: I want to tap
into that ever - present source of infinite joy by stopping long enough to find it in the little things — the bird's next in my carport, the Book of Common
Prayer, long talks
with good friends, the sound of Dan breathing (but not snoring!)
So,
with pockets stuffed
with tea lights and solemn yet excited
prayers made
with my evangelisation partner, I set out
into the neon glow of Soho Square, to invite people in.
Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit
into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship
with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of
prayer.
Prayer was a means of alignment and cooperation
with God, and its effect was not the substitution of something else for the divine will but the divine will's powerful and transforming release
into the world.
With entire unconstraint Jeremiah found thus in solitary prayer immediate entrance into the divine presence and, sensitive, poetic spirit though he was, lacerated by national calamity and individual rejection, he was accustomed to go out from this interior resource to face the world again, having heard Yahweh say to him, «I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen wall... I am with thee.&ra
With entire unconstraint Jeremiah found thus in solitary
prayer immediate entrance
into the divine presence and, sensitive, poetic spirit though he was, lacerated by national calamity and individual rejection, he was accustomed to go out from this interior resource to face the world again, having heard Yahweh say to him, «I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen wall... I am
with thee.&ra
with thee.»
The usual alternative to defending their literal truth is to ignore those particular stories we find incredible, shoving them like unwanted family skeletons
into hidden closets and bolting the door
with a fervent
prayer that the lock will hold.
And each time, I peered
into the face of the one receiving the gift: a lanky boy
with pimples and bangs avoiding my gaze; a pretty girl, no more than 13, tears brimming in eager, thankful eyes; a guy wearing his Bama cap because he heard I was a fan, whispering «Roll Tide» as he dipped his bread in the cup; adults receiving
with a grateful familiarity, mouthing «thanks be to God» and folding their hands in
prayer.
Following the Lord's instruction in Matthew 6:6 — «When you pray, go
into your room, close the door... Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you» — Clara reveals she has created her own private «war room» — a transformed closet,
with prayers and scriptural references posted all over the walls — where she has spent many hours, invoking the name of Jesus and asking for His guidance and support.
But I have also know what it is to be alone,
with dead, flat
prayers finally sinking
into prolonged silences.
If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way
with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of
prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened
with God's grace out
into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.
And in Africa,
prayers for human rights have been explicitly incorporated
into stations of the cross, as J. M. Waliggo reports in his article «A
Prayer of Solidarity
with the Suffering and the Oppressed of the World» (African Christian Studies, December 1986, p. 59)
The National
Prayer Breakfast, now in its fiftieth year, has been mainly a Protestant affair,
with more recent overlappings
into the interreligious and generalized civil religion.
If all you hear is a sermon a week, you will not gain victory over that sin in your life, you will not see power and effectiveness in your
prayers, you will not gain that insight and wisdom
into the difficult decision you are facing, you will never be able to handle
with love that troublesome person at work, you will rarely hear from God.
If you can not be apart from others, you can not engage in
prayer and meditation and thus can not enter
into genuine relations
with God.
His parables frequently end
with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the
prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter
into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).
Thus in saying 14, Jesus rejects fasting,
prayer and almsgiving, and then says, «if you go
into any land and wander in the regions, if they receive you, eat what is set before you, heal the sick among them; for what goes
into your mouth will not defile you...» The «land» and the «regions» are Thomas's substitute for the «city» of Luke 10:8, a verse from which receiving and eating what is set before one are derived; «heal the sick among them» comes from Luke 10:9, though in Thomas it is quite irrelevant to the subject of dietary laws,
with which the rest of the saying is concerned (cf. Matt.
Saying a sinner's
prayer is not how you get
into heaven... Totally surrender to Jesus in the example He set and obeying His Word
with meekness / gentleness and giving Him all the credit / glory is true born - again behavior.
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?
Business, board and budget meetings begin
with silence, and many meetings have an extended time of centering
prayer built
into their agendas.
Yet I worry that to deny our influence in
prayer is to deny the very basis of the relationship
into which we've been invited
with God.
With degeneration of prayer the power to enter into relation is buried under increasing objectification, and «it becomes increasingly difficult... to say Thou with the whole undivided being.&ra
With degeneration of
prayer the power to enter
into relation is buried under increasing objectification, and «it becomes increasingly difficult... to say Thou
with the whole undivided being.&ra
with the whole undivided being.»
Walls were splashed
with trendy purple or deep blue paint, and a parlor was turned
into a
prayer room
with floor pillows and scented candles.
Wee shall finde that the God of IsraelI is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us: soe that if wee shall deale falsely
with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire
prayers to be turned
into Cursses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse
with that exhortacion of Moses, that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, Deut.
Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children
with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell
into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and
prayer coupled
with the theology about how
prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.
Their discomfort
with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school
prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring
into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).
It was not simply a question of more men going
into the monastery (Cistercian monasteries did experience a phenomenal growth in that period), but the avant - garde journals of the day were filled
with articles about liturgical
prayer, Gregorian chant and experiments in community living.
But it is normally through shared life,
prayer, and ritual activity
with others, or through common reception of the Word, that we are brought
into encounter
with the Christ of promise.
On the table
with the glowing birds were some mirrors and some instructions that as we enter
into prayer, we should clear our mind of all thoughts (or something like this).
To Gattis, staff meetings are «worshipful work,»
with times of silence for
prayer and discernment woven
into them.
The more we enter
into communion
with our Father in
prayer the more our true colours shine through.