Sentences with phrase «most about prayer»

It is those who seem to know the most about prayer who emphasize this most strongly, and now we can see why.

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While he heard about a wide variety of habits, most nurtured their bodies in the morning with water, a healthy breakfast, and light exercise, and they nurtured their minds with meditation or prayer, inspirational reading, or journaling.

Ask what they love most about the church, what they're most excited about for the upcoming year at their church or what their biggest prayer is these days.

One of Jesus» most memorable directives about prayer is the simple mandate, «Ask and you shall receive.»

One thinks of Theresa with her comparison of the life of prayer to a medieval castle, of John of the Cross with his lovely story of the lover in the garden of cypresses, and of Meister Eckhart (the most abstract of them all) with his talk about a spark of deity that seems to become the very self of the person praying.

So, if they know nothing of the outside world and spend most of their time in prayer... what are they praying about... and what good does it do the rest of us?

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?

As in even the most intimate of human relations there are facts for psychologists to discover and use towards man's self - understanding, so there is no limit to what may be found out about what happens in prayer.

The pre-adolescent youngsters that he profiles appear as, for the most part, empathic figures who are unabashed about the roles that faith and prayer play in their own lives.

The first thing to say about this is that the Lord's Prayer isn't exactly the most offensive thing to be found in scripture.

Prayer is only a conversation which we have with ourselves and all that it can do, for most of us, is reinforce the many stupid things we believe about ourselves and «others».

I've known some of the most depressed Christians who are always repeating little happy prayers to try and get themselves out of funks, in fact some suround themselves with those possitive message posters because they need daily reminders to keep positive because they find so little else to be happy about.

I am sure that by this time next year, when the man gets up to teach all the amateur fisherman who have never caught a fish about the miracle - working wonders of this prayer, he will have some stories to tell them about me, and how I prayed five times a day, and as a result, caught the biggest fish the world and the most fish all in one day.

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.

I'm talking about the most common way of «doing church» today... a building, a paid pastor, a 90 minute service on Sunday morning with 4 - 5 songs, a prayer time, a 30 - 40 minute sermon, youth group, children's programs, etc. etc..

You see, most people learn about prayer by listening to others pray, and this often leads to some very bad prayer habits and practices.

After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came about due to the status of women during a particular time and culture and continued because of the patriarchal system that most churches have continued to operate under.

In this context affirmative prayer, meditation, and so forth, may be viewed as the most effective actions to bring about positive social change.

There is something about expressing love and offering prayers for those who are cruel and evil that makes even the most virtuous Christian hesitate.

I'm not sure what toilets you are talking about, unless you mean a washing area for cleansing before prayers, but a truly «segregated» toilet would most likely be illegal in the US.

When you peel the layers off their conscious mind and reach the subconscious, you will find most times that they mean they don't like the teaching this institution gives about poverty, prayer, attendance at the Eucharist, and their sexual life, whether in or out of marriage.

Anticipating the violent death that is about to strike, Jesus offers perhaps the most basic prayer of petition, which we might call the foxhole prayer: Lord, spare my life.

In the group which is thinking and feeling together about the same common ideas, the emotional response is heightened... music, pageantry, sermon, prayer and response are used to focus the attention of the group upon what is believed to be the Highest Good and the Most Real, manifested in the person of Christ.

But most of all, structured prayer reminds me that faith isn't just about me.

I pretty much agreed with most of what you have said and i think that the sinners prayer has been misused as a get out of Jail free card.A couple of things that people miss is that God is in charge.As soon as you offer yourself to God and accept Jesus Chris the holy spirit has liberty to work on you.Because he loves us he will discipline us so that we do repent of our sins.The downside of living a walk like that you are a hypocrite until you admit your sinfulness the holy spirit can not help us because of our pride.The second part was you talking about disciplining the flesh personally you cant discipline that which is corrupt our hearts are deceitfully wicked we need new hearts no amount of effort on our part will transform our hearts that is the work of the holy spirit he changes our hearts so that we no longer desire to sin we would rather serve the Lord with all our hearts instead.brentnz

Most of the problems that have been raised about prayer are shown to be based on a misunderstanding of what prayer really is.

In one of the most amazing and challenging passages about intercessionary prayer in the Bible, Abraham goes from persuading God to spare the cities if fifty righteous people are found within them, all the way down to only ten righteous people (Genesis 18:23 - 33).

Here are three moments God has answered that prayer by using the most buzzed about series of the year:

I need only to ask: if you wash your feet before prayer, and when the last stoning was that you attended: to get my point across... but you did say I had to answer in a coherent manner...:) Yes, the jesus story... one of those that many love to argue about, even me at times in my life have i taken the position of «he never existed»... but most of us know he did, the only real question is his divinity.

They have especially the accounts about his own praying — most notably that night of prayer reported in Matthew 26:36 - 46.

By and large, most christians» talk about their prayers, or prayers in general, made no sense to me.

For he came back in July to execute three of the most unforgettable shots in British Open history — an impossible putt, an unforgivable chunk and an unthinkable prayer — and force a playoff with John Daly, who has no feel for operettas about sweet Italians and stomped Rocca flat.

She was an answer to my prayers and gave my daughter who I am most concerned about the extra love and compassion that she needed and also helped her get the extra help that she needed in school since I was unable to help.