There does seem to be some sort of gathering for prayer here and there in Scripture, but as you point out, I don't think they
looked like our prayer meetings today.
The prayer for changes in external events,
like the prayer for material goods with which it is so closely related, is subject to great abuses.
This would effectively stop all the changes
like no prayer in school and in the military since its a religious organization is wanting the change.
If your employees, clients or co-workers have cultural requirements,
like prayer times or religious holidays, accommodate their needs into your work schedule.
Some groups have official «clothing exchanges»
where like a prayer chain, one gives to another and that other gives to another and so on.
Yet attempts to harness the power of the mind or spirit to induce self - healing through
techniques like prayer, support groups, therapeutic touch, and meditation have been largely disappointing.
Yup, turns otherwise intelligent people into irrational sheep believing that some invisible sky being is actually listening... Nothing
fails like prayer.
Just
like the prayers of Jesus and the prayers of Paul, praying the Psalms helps us see that prayer is an ongoing and open conversation with God.
Spiritual
activities like prayer, thanksgiving, and the making of sacrifices were well - established facts of life for the existence and continuation of the community.
Background Cherish was written and produced by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, and released as the third single
from Like a Prayer (1989).
It is one of many of their works based on Goya's depictions of war and is currently featured in the
exhibition Like A Prayer on view in two adjacent rooms.
That might not sound
much like prayer if you're more used to thinking of the Bible as something you read for information or instruction.
When our prayers sound too composed or rehearsed, they can begin to feel a
little like the prayer of the Tin Man — a bit heartless.
He should be sitting on a chair beside the bed, rather than standing, partly to show that he is not administering medicine but mainly to suggest that the nature of his ministry is through conversation, talking and listening, and other
procedures like prayer and reading which also involve verbal means.
Specific action -
decisions like prayer, intercession, memory of Jesus, funerals, preaching, Scripture accounts, devotions, etc., all have relative value in orienting us toward a fuller reenactment of Jesus» death in our own lives.
I just love watching
Christians like Prayer Troll (et al) and Chad violate rule after Biblical rule as they abuse atheists for violating Biblical rules.
If you don't like the idea of prayer before gatherings / meetings talked about in this post because of your opposition to religion, just remember that
payers like these prayers are also a tradition.
A west London council will vote on whether it will become the first in the country to create a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic, stopping pro-life campaigners holding
gatherings like prayer vigils outside.
Flapping our wings with a sense of futility, a foreboding of failure — that's how we feel on the brink of something difficult but
exhilarating like prayer.
In contrast to past religious controversies that have centered on
questions like prayer in public schools and religious symbols on government property, recent conflicts between law and religion have quite a different feel because of their unmistakable commercial component....