Sentences with phrase «meanings of prayer»

That is one of the inner meanings of prayer.

We are professional singers who have extensively studied the order and meaning of the prayers in addition to how to carry our voices.

People ask me why in young manhood I wrote The Meaning of Prayer.

Rather, it centers the meaning of prayer in a relationship to God.

We shall take, as the third example of the influence of secularization, the practice and meaning of prayer.

When I ask Wolfson about the meaning of the prayer, he puts down his utensils to draw an imaginary line between his fingers.

Not exact matches

The men should have notified the crew of their intentions prior to the prayers, but they meant no harm.

I don't think anyone knew what that meant all of those years ago, but when the time came to start IHOP we were trying to find the way to sustain enjoyable prayer 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

I guess that just means you think you're special enough to your god that prayer would get you to have good test scores, but god will continue to let children around the world starve, get kidnapped, raped, and all sorts of horrific things, but it's a priority that you get good grades.

This a call for prayer in Islam and the belivers in Islam are called Muslims (Islam means subimission to the Creator) All the Prophets Abraham (Ibraheem in Arabic) Mosses (Musa) Jesus (Essa) and others and Last prophet Muhammad peace be upon all of them were Muslims.

About «The Reponse» rally, shouldn't God be cool with a couple of well meaning and sincere prayers?

@ Bizarre: considering Paul encourages prayer repeatedly in Romans & other of his letters, it seems you've missed his basic meaning.

If you don't ask them to pray the sinners prayer or ask if they are saved (and I don't mean go to church every Sunday, because believe me there are and will be A LOT of people who attended church sitting in hell.

Religion is one lie after another: the lie of original sin, the lie of eternal life, the lie of hell, the lie of answered prayer, the lie that life can have no meaning without religion, the lie that religion is the source of morality, the lie of creationism, the lie of a spy - in - the - sky who hears your every word and reads your every thought.

Pete Greig, one of the founders of 24 - 7 Prayer International, told Premier's Inspirational Breakfast: «Going to number one is incredible, but what it means is that this week more people are downloading videos about Jesus at Christmas than Ted Talks, or Ricky Gervais» podcast, or the Foo Fighters!»

Prayer changes nothing, so stop embracing coincidence as providence, your life will have much more meaning when you realize that you are in control of it.

Our prayers are not to alter the will of a sovereign God who remains forever unchangeable, but instead, prayer molds our disfigured and malleable wills to be like His perfect will, as well as operating as a means of revealing His character to us through a personal interaction with His word that has been intricately meshed together with our lives.

Because if it was meant as your personal prayer... that whole thing of praying on street corners comes to mind.

Their violation of the law does not mean that prayer has been removed from schools anymore than your neighbor running a red light means that light has been removed.

A true Christian makes prayer a daily matter (1 Thess 5:17), in which Jesus taught them to pray first and foremost for God's name of Jehovah to be sanctified by means of his «kingdom».

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

a) Prayer implies a God b) God implies a final Judgment c) Eliminating prayer breaks the connection to a God d) Elimination of God eliminates the Final Judgment e) Elimination of the Final Judgment means no consequences after death f) No consequences after death means acts that end in death are only poPrayer implies a God b) God implies a final Judgment c) Eliminating prayer breaks the connection to a God d) Elimination of God eliminates the Final Judgment e) Elimination of the Final Judgment means no consequences after death f) No consequences after death means acts that end in death are only poprayer breaks the connection to a God d) Elimination of God eliminates the Final Judgment e) Elimination of the Final Judgment means no consequences after death f) No consequences after death means acts that end in death are only positive

Surely it means something that the mighty Google has celebrated holi, the Hindu festival of color, and Japan's Shichi - go - san prayer day but never Yom Kippur or Good Friday, let alone Ramadan.

By safeguarding the privacy of our families and friendships and the quiet humility of our prayer life, we direct our lives towards God and uphold the Christian virtue of modesty, in all meanings of the word.

He will then go on to explain what following this call will mean: a life of charity, lived out in celibate chastity, in obedience to him and his successors and nourished and strengthened in prayer, focused especially on Our Lord in the Eucharist.

For some homosexual persons, the effort to change can mean years of individual and group therapy, agonized prayers, suicidal depressions, and the constant fear of detection, loss of job and attack by straight men.

As metaphor is a means of understanding, so is prayer, though it defies rational analysis.

A good cantor tailors the tunes and style of prayer with the audience to ensure that everybody sings in unison and finds meaning in the service.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

But Fred — What does it mean to say a prayer has been «answered» if there is never a way to verify it and measure it to make sure it's not the sort of thing that would have happened just as easily without the prayer?

But that is not at all what Jesus meant, and in fact, mindlessly repeating the words «in Jesus» name» to get what we ask for in prayer is actually the exact opposite of what Jesus meant when He invited us to pray in His name.

dvdrichards1115 And, yet, group prayers do serve as a means of identifying denominational and sectarian groups.

But the Biblical concept of prayer, as practiced by Christ Himself as a model for us, is to seek and obtain God's will, and they pray for God's will to be done (even if that means going to the cross).

does not mean we should get rid of all and lump everyone together,, evebn IF they did not have prayer..

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.

I appreciate Benson's reminder that these prayers are not meant to be said alone and indeed are very difficult to say alone: «One of the keys to the discipline of the prayer of the office is the realization that... we are joining our voices with a great multitude unknown to us who are marking the same office at the same time each day.»

But these two words don't mean the same thing... My prayer for this book is that it will revive a generation of evangelicals to become true evangelicals instead of just soterians.»

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

«This means that the only circumstances under which prayer may be targeted as a prohibited activity under the PSPO is if it is taking place within the context of a protest that is an act or attempted act of approval or disapproval related to abortion services.»

In chapters like «The Meaning of Sex,» «Becoming a Singular Sensation,» «The Gift of the Present Moment,» «Winning the Spiritual Battle,» and «Craving Heaven,» Eden describes God's design for human sexuality, why sex is reserved for marriage, the importance of modesty, how singles struggling with loneliness and unrequited love can empower themselves through prayer and the sacraments, and why shared values with one's spouse are so vital for a successful marriage.

And something should be said about the use of the old set services of the Church — for Lutherans and Episcopalians that means the reading of Morning and Evening Prayer, or Matins and Evensong.

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.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

Rather, the person and power of Jesus allow us to come boldly to the throne of grace through our prayers, are the focus of our worship, are a model for how we live, are the means by which we face the tragedies and turmoil all about us, and inform our eschatology.

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.

But does it mean that every sincere desire of the soul, such as a deep and ardent longing for another man's wife or position or property, is a prayer?

In this approach to personal prayer the influence of the prophets was by no means confined to the prophets, and of this fact the Psalter gives abundant evidence.

Such developments, however, while they immeasurably deepened and expanded the meaning of personal prayer, did not solve the problem of public worship, which the early Christians only temporarily escaped when they left the temple and the synagogue.

What this means for us is prayer in solitude, prayer in the family or in a small group of friends, prayer at church.

Accompanying such developments as we have noted in the substance of Biblical prayers, an even more profound change was in process: praying, employed at first as a means of persuading a god to do man's will, grew to be used as a means of releasing through man whatever was God's will.