Sentences with phrase «much about his prayer»

It is a practice older even than St. Benedict, who, along with St. Paul, has taught me much about prayer.

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Now, to be fair, they'll pretty much leave you alone as long as you don't «stir things up» like complaining about school prayer, especially at the HS football game.

A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.

The scholar metaphor is useful for worship and Bible study, but books like Andrew Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer don't have much to say about faithfulness in the workplace.

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

And even though one understands something about prayer and is himself nourished by it, one is apt to feel that it is presumptuous to talk much about it.

People who replace a typical five - minute extemporaneous prayer with a set of five or so collects often remark on the experience of spending that much time in prayer thinking about God rather than about their own needs.

We have so much to learn about turning prayer from a tedious activity in a cold church hall into an adventure of hope and creativity.

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.

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.

Much can be said about the content of Jesus» prayer, especially that the primary prayer request of Jesus for all who would believe in Him is that we would be unified (John 17:21).

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

Prayer, like music, can make an impact on the soul without one's understanding much about its construction.

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.

Speaking about the importance of prayer during this difficult time, Rev Long said that while it may be hard knowing what words to say to God, people should pray that «some sense of peace for those that have suffered so much might emerge».

Believe it or not, these sorts of discoveries will eventually trickle down into theology, requiring us to rethink much about creation, prayer, the afterlife, the flow of time, and numerous related subjects.

«The amazing thing about praying in that environment was you could pretty much guarantee God would answer those prayers,» Maslen recalls.

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).

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

Although these holy people have much to teach us about prayer, I believe a life of prayer is available to all of us — young and old; alone and in the midst of family; working, retired, and unemployed.

So much has changed in the world, so many older beliefs and ideas have been abandoned or if not abandoned then gravely doubted, so much of our modern way of living appears to make prayer unintelligible, that they are puzzled about the whole enterprise.

One of these issues has been put to me in words like these: «Altogether too much teaching about prayer, particularly in circles that are highly orthodox and consider themselves also highly biblical, amounts to telling us that we must cringe before, imperial majesty, as if we were in the presence of an oriental despot.

Jeremy I agree its not about what we can do but all about what Jesus has done for us it is all about his grace not following mans laws or trying to please the pastor or the church.Be respectful for those in authority and show them Gods love work hard as for the Lord as you serve them and pray for them but do nt try and please them.We no longer follow the ways of the world we live to please the Lord and worship him not man because that is idolatory.Thats why religion does nt work we can do nothing to add to Gods grace.Grace is also not a licence to sin as some christians believe and God is not fooled if we do not repent and turn from our sin he does nt hear our prayers if the intents of our heart are wrong.God listens to the humble and the repentent sinner or saint.The journey in following Christ is about how much do we want to follow Jesus to discover the abundant life and richs in Christ we must fully give him all our hearts and serve him wholehearted out of thankfulness for his grace and mercy towards us.brentnz

We often hear about the power of prayer and the effectiveness of prayer, and how prayer accomplishes much; and it does.

Was this author equally appalled about the prayer breakfast earlier this month, when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?

Petition and answer should not, of course, be regarded as the sole content of Christian prayer, but in the popular mind this has often been the case, and it is just at this point that secularization has greatly undermined the practice of prayer, and has made the Christian much more cautious about the forms of his petitions and the areas in which they may be regarded as legitimate.

One of the benefits of secularization in this field has been that it has shown up the fact that much that has passed for Christian prayer was in fact a form of magic, by which the Christian was attempting to operate supernatural forces to bring about his own ends, however laudable they might have been.

Both became so anti-worship and so much more about how to increase membership and funds than about prayer and worship.

If the main reason our reps have been chosen because they believe and pray to the spaghetti monster in the sky, based on the mess hey have produced and keep making worse, there prayers have been a useless waste of time which would have been much better spent to actually work on the problem rather than praying about it.

Much that they have been taught about prayer, in school or at home or from sermons, does not speak to their condition; they wonder if it really matters at all.

Prayer requests: I've been feeling anxious about a few things lately — I don't want to go into too much detail, but I just asked for prayers (personally) for me to feel confident in the decisions John and I make for us, for our family, and for our baby — and that God would lead us in the right direction in everything.

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That being said, I'm a Christian and my husband John and I pray that each puppy finds his or her perfect home, that our babies bring much joy to each new family, that they live long healthy lives, I believe that's the reason behind our success, God cares about even the small things in our lives, I believe He answers those prayers.

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Packed inside were the thoughts and prayers we heard so much about — the ones from people willing to do something after 17 people died in Parkland, but not willing to do enough...

Packed inside were the thoughts and prayers we heard so much about — the ones from people willing to do something after 17 people died in Parkland, but not willing to do enough to stop future mass shootings.

And speaking of women who really know their way around the kitchen - Kevin's mom Katie is having her brain surgery tomorrow (Wednesday), and we just wanted you to know how much we appreciate all the kind words you sent and all the prayers you've been lifting up for her since I blogged about it last week.