Sentences with phrase «more about prayer»

If you want to learn more about prayer, or want to get another perspective on prayer, this book is a good place to start.

What if elder's meetings were more about prayer for the people and ministries of the church than discussing the myriad and minute problems and issues of the church?

Not exact matches

unfortunately (for you), more Americans are learning about fasting, monotheism, daily prayer and family values of Islam, than they are about taqiyya and sharia!!

More arrogant that believing an infinite, omniscient being cars about your prayers?

I find myself learning more and more about my emotions, my thoughts, my viewpoints and my deep heart - wrenched prayers through writing.

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

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!»

In just about all my career, the historic churches have been in decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at prayer.

It says more about the power of the human mind over the human body than it does about prayer itself.

And, when she describes that change, what she ends up describing is what already more - or-less exists, namely: mainline christianity, embracing the reformed and the catholic, the scientific and the traditional, which has been doing (never perfectly, to be sure) the sort of deep thinking, social justice, and disciplined prayer that she talks about continually while the evangelicals were breaking off to do their own thing (the thing she seems to want them to stop doing) throughout the twentieth century.

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.

The more we listen to God, and the more we learn about how he does answer our prayers and guide our lives, we learn more about what to ask for, how to use his gifts, and how to trust him through good or bad times.

Maybe if we could «test» the afterlife claims, they would be no more real than the claims about prayer.

The more we listen to God, and the more we learn about how he does answer our prayers and guide our lives, the more we learn more about what to ask for, how to use his gifts, and how to trust him through good or bad times.

Prayer with an amputee is about much more than legs and arms.

Prayer does work its like a day to day roadmap when I prayed too know more about jesus it was like bring my jewish people back too isreal.

An opening prayer of confession sometimes does little more than suggest that worship is primarily about our failures rather than God's triumphs.

What concerns me the most about the mindset of these people is that they think sports are important enough to warrant a prayer — if they're that certain prayer works, shouldn't they be embarrassed about not using their religious fervour to pray for more important matters?

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It now remains to say something more about the fruits of prayer, both within the individual and in the social whole.

I hope it can work for me since I don't want to live another year like that even I have prayed for three years about this problem with all the prayer knowledge I have in the past.Although there are still many things I don't understand about my situation, I will keep on trusting my Lord that he will make everything works out for good.If anyone can see my reply, please pray to Jesus and ask Him to has more mercy on me.

Let's keep Ling and Lee in our prayers... and perhaps show a bit more caution before making general statements about the media.

I have never been uncomfortable at all about sitting with the ladies, hugging, holding hands during prayer... I will probably pick up more colds and virus from my grandkids, but that won't keep me from hugging them, so why should it keep me from hugging a person who doesn't have a home to go to.

More times than not about the Lord's Prayer and how it shaped how we related to God, each other, friends, family and everyone we met.

I have been forward for prayer so many times about stopping masturbating, repented and... More

One more point, according to the epistle of James, the prayer of the righteous are effective, therefore as the monks heal their souls, their prayers for the world will also become more effective (less about them, more about the salvation of the world).

And the action of walking occupies part of our conscious mind so that prayer can flow more freely without us worrying too much about the exact words we use.

I write a lot more about this in my book, What is Prayer?

When understood this way, prayer become much less of a mystery about how to pray and what to pray for and who can pray and where to pray, and much more like a conversation we have in everyday life.

To give one more example, we may ask, What does the Bible say about prayer?

The more general meaning fits the sayings about prayer that follow (vv 5 - 8).

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.

It certainly is good to have finally found out that Christianity is nothing more than just tradition, ritual and culture and that all the things which the Bible says about God and prayer are not true — God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct anyone or put thoughts in anyone's mind or show them signs or speak to their heart or mind or tells them what to do or calls people or chooses people or has a plan for people's lives whether they are in an altered state of consciousness / transcendent state or whether they are in an unaltered cognitive state.

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.

Bonhoeffer's diary records two different episodes during this brief period: «I do not understand why I am here... The short prayer in which we thought of our German brothers almost overwhelmed me... If things become more uncertain, I shall not stay in America...» Later, after his decision to return home, he wrote, «Since I came on board ship, my mental turmoil about the future has gone.

If it really has been «done to death,» then I can think of numerous topics that have been done many times more than this topic (at least where I'm at and interact): faith, hope, love, prayer, fellowship, giving, good works, christian unity, salvation, grace, faith healing, being culturally relevant, the gospel, the resurrection, religion vs. relationship, tithing, worship, reverence, christian music, legalism, old vs. new covenant, Paul's conversion, miracles, gifts of the spirit, sign gifts, tongues, nativity, the disciples, crucifixion, materialism, mysticism, new age, atheism, i could probably list about 50 more if I thought about it.

Therefore, prayer is more about who we are praying to than what we are saying.

Several years back I did a study on that book and discovered that his prayer contains is more about himself than anything else.

But what about the endless committee meetings which, at their conclusion, would more appropriately be closed with a round of Alka - Seltzer than a round of prayer?

The second he talks about the «worldly» folk being more «authentic» — my word, not his - and in the first quote he reveals his own anger at overhearing his father's prayers that sound both authentic and all about the inner experience as he wrestled with his faith.

We pray for our brothers and sisters around the world, dying and starving and losing some cosmic lottery that we didn't ask to win and, from far away it looks like we are all losing but there are stories of redemption there, too, and isn't prayer more about us being changed into God's character than actually about moving his hand in our direction?

You will often find illustrations in sermons and books on prayer about how prayer is a spiritual discipline, and while the new believer may only pray for five minutes a day, the longer one is a Christian, the more time they should spend in prayer, so that the truly spiritual prayer warrior will pray for several hours a day.

If you want to learn more about this sort of prayer, I highly recommend The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence.

If you think that God is more present in your church building, or on top of some sacred mountain, or in a special prayer sanctuary, you will want to listen to today's episode and listen to what Moses has to say about these sorts of places.

When we take this approach with your walk with God, I guarantee we will all be more intentional about spending time daily with Him in prayer and scripture to make sure we have the armor God that we may be able stand against the wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6:11).

If you are at all interested in learning more about how and why people who love Jesus — why long time faithful disciples who have a high view of Scripture with a deeply Christian ethic around sexuality — are arriving at this conclusion, I would commend to you a season of bible study and theological reading and prayer in company with the Holy Spirit and the body of Christ.

Five or ten people gather on Sunday mornings at about 10:00 am, sit in chairs, sing a few songs, spend some in prayer, and then have a Bible discussion, which more often than not, is dominated by one person.

Less talk about how we value women especially the marginalized and the poor — and more actually valuing of them with our money and our prayers and our time.

For those interested in learning more about contemplative prayer, Jim Borst, author of Coming to God in the Stillness breaks it down into twelve steps, from silence through to forgiveness and intercession.

More Americans now think political leaders talk too little about their faith and prayer life (40 %, up from 30 % in March 2012), and fewer Americans think political leaders talk too much about their faith (27 %, down from 38 % in March 2012).