Sentences with phrase «many prayer groups»

Organize a prayer group and meet regularly with three parishioners you trust implicitly for critique, support, and, as the name says, prayer.

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.

But, I do need to seek out at least a prayer group with more positive supportive believers.

If the prayer group in the experiment suddenly, in controvention of known medical timelines, demonstrated that they were as they were prior to the diesease, surgery, injury etc, and subsequent testing provides no evidence of anything other than a straight up non medical intervention based change in their biology, THEN the results might be remarkable.

I go to a church woman's prayer group.

The prayer group that i belong to has changed the world because Our Leader is Our Saviour Yeshua Mashiach and He has Saved many but the christians don't do what He has asekd and this is why we are seeing the poor beause the christians are selective in who they give to.

For the 61st time, the president came to pray with the U.S. Senate and House prayer groups at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermediate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed ailments on only six of them.

My friend stopped worrying about spiritual inadequacy, however, when she heard that the prayer group had prayed for a set of color - coordinated kitchen appliances for one of its members, Yes, the appliances arrived at the member's home.

I remember a friend telling me about her sister - in - law who had found such a connection in a weekly prayer group, then became insufferable to the other members of the family «We just can't be spiritual enough for Evelyn,» my friend sighed.

Perhaps the most popular of the English mystics today is Julian of Norwich (c. 1342 - c. 1413), partly because there are a number of contemplative prayer groups called Julian groups.

She visits detainees and leads the apostleship of prayer group in taking radical options on certain political issues like boycotting sham elections.

Prayer groups have accomplished that, but the consensor has at times helped people break through their first lack of confidence, revealing their worries about being honest and open in prayer.

We have experimented with the use of EEG in prayer (watching the brain waves to discern a rise in spiritual consciousness), the use of the consensor with prayer groups, and the impact of certain kinds of music as observable with biofeedback machines.

Last month my wife — the social creature with a big heart that she is — met a couple through a woman's prayer group at the church we attend who was pouring out her heart about their impending homelessness.

There is a growing practice among serious Christ - ians» Evangelical, Catholic, and others» to join in Bible study and prayer groups.

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermed.iate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed a.ilments on only six of them.

When I was at uni, our Friday night contemplative prayer group would have a meal together before the praying and we'd have the bread and wine (or grape juice) as part of the meal.

Typical prayer groups are supportive - inspirational.

(b) The Bible gives the authoritative content of the faith which provides substance for the small group experience, helping members avoid the «self - centeredness and sentimentality» of many prayer groups.

I accepted Christ as a 13 year - old at a Catholic prayer group.

I don't care if there are prayer groups at school.

At Madras Christian College, students and faculty spoke of the explosion of independent Bible study and prayer groups that coexist in tension with the traditional churches.

On the morning of the shooting, Marie led a prayer group at a local church, where they asked God to keep schoolchildren safe.

Spiritually restless Christians join Bible study groups, prayer groups, healing groups.

In 1985, after President Marcos invalidated a freely held election in the Philippines, Christians began gathering in prayer groups.

He tells me with only a hint of irony that one way to begin is by getting into an «influential prayer group.»

The arrangements that went into the 1986 District of Columbia crusade were typical of the big rallies of the later years: 500,000 personal invitations issued, 400,000 packets of material mailed to area homes, thousands of prayer groups meeting regularly for months ahead, 4,000 workers trained to counsel with «inquirers,» another thousand prepared for follow - up work.

Groups that are sometimes not noticed — the network of Padre Pio prayer groups is one such example — foster faith and good works and keep up the numbers at weekday Mass..

Groups that may receive sneers — charismatic prayer groups dismissed as «happy clappies», or Rosary groups that are seen an old - fashioned — bring new people into the Church in unexpected ways, offering hope and healing to the lonely, the disaffected, the confused.

So far none of the interviewees has joined our prayer group or Sunday school.

Prayer groups can be helpful as you begin a regular practice of a new form of prayer.

Some prayer groups are on - going, others ask people to make a specific time commitment.

A lesbian couple has joined our prayer group and have pledged to strive for celib@cy!

A litany of services, classes, sermons, retreats, bible studies, prayer groups and conferences provide a comfortable way to feel productive and meaningful — even if we're not.

The group will become a study group as well as a discussion group, a prayer group, and a workshop for mission.

A 2001 double - blind study at the Mayo Clinic randomized 799 discharged coronary surgery patients into a control group and an intercessory prayer group, which received prayers at least once a week from 5 intercessors per patient.

His crusades in Charlotte, North Carolina, produced some converts who organized a prayer group that met for years, praying that God would continue the ministry of evangelism through the people of Charlotte.

The report recommended various forms of community life which would bring about renewal in life and mission such as «Base» Christian communities, House churches, Prayer groups, Monastic communities and other groups seeking a simpler life - style or seeking involvement in various kinds of mission.

At the conclusion members repeat the Lord's Prayer, sometimes joining hands, as is the common practice among charismatic prayer groups.

Susan Anthony says that in her travels around the country she makes use of her list of charismatic prayer groups as well as her list of AA groups.

It can provide the theme and focus for staff and committee meetings, women's and men's societies, board meetings, trustees meetings, Bible study groups, prayer groups, marriage enrichment groups, even choir rehearsal.

INTERVENTION: Agents were randomly assigned to either a directed or nondirected prayer group; photos and names of subjects were used as a focus.

Six months later the prayer group had significantly fewer AIDS illnesses, less frequent doctor visits and days in the hospital.

Most locates either began or concluded the satellite meeting with a 20 - minute period of centering prayer - thus providing a technologically - linked prayer group throughout the country.

When the Azusa Street Mission (generally considered the cradle of modern Pentecostalism)[1] was born in Los Angeles, a Methodist congregation in Valparaiso had already taken its first steps toward Pentecostalism by holding prayer groups and studying the book of Acts.

1) Students can pray in school, they can lead prayer groups, and they can't be denied equal access to school facilities for prayer group activities.

I had a friend make it for me for my birthday cake this year, as our prayer group celebrates birthdays, and she knows I do no grain, and is willing to make it for me special.

There's more: Gun violence disproportionately affects minority and vulnerable communities — children at Sandy Hook, worshipers at a Charleston prayer group, young Black men, and the LGBT community, itself the target of an estimated 20 % of all hate crimes.

If you have the time, join a local prayer group, visit a meditation center, or simply spend some time alone in nature.