Sentences with phrase «not after prayer»

Major decisions in Persia are made not after prayer and fasting, but on whims, in response to petty personal sleights, by the of casting lots.

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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..

Believe it or not, most men and women who take vows to be religious, do so in good faith and after years of prayer.

Some older people have the words from the Book of Common Prayer ingrained in their minds after years of repetition and can recall them with a clarity and understanding they may not have with other information.

Dalahäst How do you know that the «will of God» answer that pops into your mind after prayer isn't just your own personal desire that you've given this justification?

After the heaviness of Drunkard's Prayer, the new album The Trumpet Child is in turns joyful, sassy and more than a little sexy; Bergquist describes it as «maybe a little cabaret feel; something a little burlesque, not so Midwestern.»

No matter what happens after the prayer, the Christian can say A) God answered it cause what was prayed for actually happened B) it hasn't happened yet, but God will answer in the future C) it didn't happen because it wasn't his will.

We should not underestimate the capacity for public inscriptions to be unnoticed after their initial construction even by those that lived their lives surrounded by them (it is indicative of this that in the process of destroying Alexandrian Jewish prayer halls (39 CE), a mob of gentiles seeking to promote the worship of Caligula actually destroyed dedications to previous emperors).

After the game, Abdullah told reporters that he might have been penalized because he slid and celebrated too excitedly, not because of the prayer.

The point of the prayer isn't about god, after all, it's about being SEEN to push prayer on others.

We can't imagine overturning the empire through these small stones that we lift up, one after another, through the small lives we spare, through our words and our prayers.

«The faith of the prayer - giver does not matter at all,» said John Auberger, Greece's board supervisor, who began the practice shortly after taking office 1998.

Some people emphasize the performance of optional prayers after the Friday prayers, while others do not.

Prayer is not overtly rejected but it is by - passed as a naïve, probably harmless but certainly not very important, indulgence on the part of those not able to look after their own concerns.

To be serious I loved what you wrote Jeremy about praying in the Will of God, after all if we say the Lords prayer we do say Thy will be done not My will be done.

After all the evangfundibapticostal exhortations, studies, books and retreats on prayer, it wasn't until I began learning to sit in silence that healing, peace and hope began to return.

I know it was prayer that saved me but, I did not realize it until some time later after I had a conversion experience.

At the interfaith prayer services after 9/11 and after the Boston marathon bombings, it was not enough to have a Presbyterian and a Quaker rubbing shoulders with a Congregationalist.

After you get over the first stress — as I say, not performing elaborate prayers, but just asking God to help — you'll probably be surprised at how quickly it becomes liberating.

On a late November evening in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, Celestia Ferris, chief washer - woman at the Bureau of Engraving, organized a prayer meeting not far from the U. S. Capitol.

Genesis tells what God intended and it was God created them male and female — man needed a mate and that was a female — The bible used to be very hard to understand but I sought the Lord with all my heart and I read it now and it does not contradict itself — Many prayers have been answered and I believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior — I can not imagine living in this world as it is and not having that anchor that holds me together day after day.

Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the North Carolina pastor who was fired from his duties as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives after he closed a prayer «in the name of Jesus»?

It's great that your friend got a job, but at least how you presented it, it doesn't sound like god gave him a job or even moved his resume to the top of the pile, but rather after applying for many many jobs, especially being out of a job for years that's a lot of job applications, one would happen to strike gold, hardly seems to me that god or specifically your prayers had anything to do with his success.

We should know too whether the silence rule of I Corinthians I4: 34 means that, after all, women must not lead in prayer nor prophesy publicly, as 11:4 - 10 seemed to allow them to do, or only that women must take no part in judging prophets, which is the theme of the immediate context, 14:29 - 33.

It is ironic, isn't it, that we repeat this prayer right after reading to not repeat prayers.

It wasn't until after college that I finally realized what I was missing was a rhythm of daily prayer, something with a set structure.

although i didn't believe in all those things... then when he did the special prayers and spell, after 2days, my husband came back and was pleading..

And also why the opening song after the prayer meeting is done standing when the rest aren't.

After you are born again you will talk with God on many things, opposition to prayer will not be among them.

Beeca, you seem to be beating yourself up over this.Make your peace with God, then your husband and follow God not your emotions.Know God forgives you and asking his forgiveness the first step.The rest is spending your life making it good.Marriage after a divorce is No Sin!Many people are victims of a spouse's infidelity.I was on a 10 month Navy cruise and came back to a wife who was six months pregnant with twins.God blessed me with my wife of 31 years and I've never looked back.Forgiveness here is up to your husband but know if you've prayed the sinners prayer and made peace with God, Jesus paid that price for us.

>> >» Why didn't they just have a private prayer meeting off to the side or simply have a church - based reception after the graduation ceremony?

It was called «Search Me O God» and was based on David's prayer that God would take away anything in him that was not right and would give him a heart after God's own heart.

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.

Prayers can be done privately with absolutely no problem as long as it doesn't violate any laws (like disturbing the peace, incitement to riot, etc.) Why didn't they just have a private prayer meeting off to the side or simply have a church - based reception after the graduation ceremony?

By sacrifice the gods could be at first won over to grant favors sought after; then as time went on, it became magical in its powers, and the gods themselves could not resist the prayer spell; indeed, what power they had they owed to the sacrifice.22 It became a matter of primary importance that the sacrifice be properly performed, for in this its efficacy rested.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Personally, when I am giving my opinion on the interpretation of scripture, I actively choose not to preface it with, «the Lord told me» or «the Holy Spirit has guided me to this position after much prayer», etc..

Our little boy was very ill last year and in ICU for 11days... it was a very stressful time but God pulled us through it — so you have been in my prayers and i will continue to pray for Jesse's speedy and complete recovery... On a positive note though, the care we received here in Cape Town was outstanding (1 of us was with Josh 24/7) and at no time we were not considered or listened to or cared for... so i guess it is not so bad in the 3rd world after - all.

The emperor, after searching inquiries about the religion of Muhammad, gave general approval to the new religion — which he considered to be compatible with the teachings of Confucius — but he felt that five daily prayers and a month of fasting were requirements too severe for his taste, and he was not converted.

«It's not about if, it's when,» he proclaims emphatically, as those standing with outstretched arms repeat the prayer after him.

What if decisions were made, not based on what other churches or doing, not based on what the church has always done, not based on what the numerous church policies say, but instead only made after people had sought the truth of God through Scripture, the timing of God through prayer, and the leading of God through reliance on the Holy Spirit?

But don't worry, I finally came to the place after thousands of dollars in counseling and days of prayer where I can forgive you.

That was also a predictable response; after all, why does the pastor ask to talk with you if not to get you to take your prayer life and Bible - reading more seriously?

«The fact that President Morsy did not attend the Mass himself, but sent a government official to represent him, is a sign that little will change,» Hani Tadros, 43, said as he left the cathedral in Abbasiya after attending the prayers.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

Prayer is not an attempt to fashion the world after our own desires.

The prayer is mandatory for all Muslims and often can not be offered after the school hours.

Also, the Lord's Prayer probably was not composed by Jesus at all, but was more likely the work of early Christians who wrote it after the crucifixion.

Yet during this time, Cairns says now, he «was still very far from establishing my life as prayer» Not too many years ago, after a rather bitter dispute at work, he started to pray in earnest: «I began an actual «rule» of prayer.

One pastor tried to cancel our prayer meeting a few years back, and after only one month of not praying on Wednesday night, we just about had a church split.