Sentences with phrase «not by prayer»

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People often feel sorry for you because you're not quite «right» and they try their best to try to fix you by providing helpful advice, free seminars and, in extreme cases, lots of prayer.

When anxiety creeps up on you say a prayer to release those feelings that you haven't been able to shake by worrying.

They do not have the right to disturb other passengers by yelling out their prayers and they certainly do not have the right to put an entire flight at risk.

Belinda, it does not matter if you are Orthodox Jew, Muslim, Christian, Buddist, Wickin, or Voodoo... to board a commerical airliner and launch into prayers that can be overheard by other passengers is totally, deliberately, irresponsible these days.

Permit not, I beseech Thee, O Lord, that Thy Son should be any longer despised by unbelievers, but do Thous graciously accept the prayers of holy men and of the Church, the Spouse of Thy most holy Son, and be mindful of Thy mercy.

If God can not be persuaded by prayer, why do people pray for Him to alter reality (ie: heal the sick).

Include verifiable evidence the event was changed by prayer and not something else.

The prayer of a Fool, of someone who is not a Sheep of the Great Sheperd, but some other sort of animal will not be heard by God.

In the book of Philippians, the Apostle Paul writes «Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Part of this how the first century church exploded out of nothing from men who, by all accounts, shouldn't have been able to pull it off; part of it is seeing (actually a big part of it) is seeing what God has done in my life — answered prayer that, by all accounts, shouldn't have been answered.

Actually Jesus you're wrong about what Atheism said, prayer changes things by not doing anything and allowing the natural (disastrous) course of events to transpire.

Other forms of persecution: Preventing Christians from normal livelihood, not giving space for prayer, obstructing or preventing the message from spreading by the media.

You can express your good thoughts, but don't trash the concept of God to a person who believes in God by telling them you will send your prayer to them?

Women having babies they don't want or can't provide for, demonizing the use of condoms spreading aids and STDs, and claiming problems can be solved by prayer rather than science.

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

I would think that maybe your prayer was not answered by God but Santa in this case.

6Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and pet.ition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

No one has ever been cured by prayer, holy wells etc. for something wich couldn't be explained by natural cures.

I experience miracles and answered prayer none of which a skeptic will accept nor would I have accepted such accounts prior to that point when the Holy Spirit began to reveal a reality governed by what is not scientifically falsifiable.

Therefore, by this argument, prayer is useless; you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Honestly Prayer is magick.You ask for something to happen and by divine powers it happens even if its not exactly what you asked for.

I prophecy that sometime in the next 3 pages of comments on this blog, someone going by the handle «Atheism is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things» will post a message that comprises, in its entirety, the words «Prayer changes things.»

The foundation said it learned of such practices by way of community members who are, in fact, not fully supporting prayer.

Jesus also promised that prayer would work, He would be back in the 1st Century and did not deny the fact that the earth is flat, when tempted by Satan.

You can't prove them wrong, and your god didn't use his omnipotence to stop them despite the prayers of passengers; in fact, if he exists, he seemed to be going by the name «Allah» on that day.

Credit your father's will, not some stupid prayer... my sister - in - law was prayed over by a nun... She told us my s - i - l would live.

Teaching from the pulpit, for example, that God willed Adam and Eve to sin, that cancer is predestined by God, that prayer doesn't cause anything to change in the world, and that evangelism has no purpose since sheep are sheep and goats are goats?

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).

What if the company is owned by a person who is in one of the religions that doesn't believe in ANY medical procedures, are they to be allowed to provide a policy that only provides for prayer?

Ps... since all you are so stressed with this greedy, sinful life... I will say a prayer you don't pull out ALL your hair... so when I am called up, I won't get blinded by all the bald headed sinner

Live, you don't suppose that the sophisticated weaponry that has been designed in the last 50 years may have more to do with it than your assertion that each and every one of these shootings were caused by prayer being taken of schools?

friends, my take is, prayer is used by athletes to boost self - confidence, like performance enhancing drug, hoping prayer would make God plant an invisible horse shoe in your glove is stupidity, and sure way to be knocked out flat on your ass, in one punch, ask Pacquiao goons, if you don't believe me.

You must have either read my mind, or my post (a few lines down) wherein I responded to «Atheism's» «Prayer changes things» by saying: «Yep, I'm sure those 9 -1-1 terrorists (if you believe they were terrorists, and not government operatives... but that's another post for another blog...) were doing a lot of praying... and, boy, did they change things!»

Prayer causes small kids to get hit by buses when they aren't paying attention.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor — I go through swings with Flannery O'Connor's work — I won't read her for years and then all of a sudden, I can't stop for a month.

What I mean by this prayer from the cell is that I just can't simply say, «You're evil.

The 6 Emergent Leaders who gathered in Dallas, Texas while on a book tour stop and who «through hours of prayer and discernment» diagnosed me without ever saying a word to me, and came up with an «action plan,» which by the way, only he whom shall not be named was present for, and I was in Minnesota with the kids.

«The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery.

Yes, we can bring our worries into our prayer but we should start by entering into that stillness which is not possible unless we close the door.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

He concludes that the reasons for priestsbeing required to give up all conjugal relations with their wives on being ordained was not the «cultural purity of the minister of the altar, but rather the efficacy of mediatory prayer by the sacred minister».

By itself, the Enneagram doesn't have much to offer, but when combined with prayer, Bible study, and other spiritual practices, it can be extremely helpful.

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

So we do not judge prayer by whether it «works».

He went on to say: «This has not been an easy journey and honestly, Leo's had quite a dramatic life so far, but I am completely blown away by my wife's consistency in such deep prayer.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling on Friday, saying the family had not persuaded the three - judge panel «that the individual prayers or other remarks to be given by students at graduation are, in fact, school - sponsored.»

Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»