Sentences with phrase «of desperate prayers»

Yes, in some respects they are an answer to prayer, but they also stimulate a lot of desperate prayers.

The double meaning is that they are prayers from a cell phone, or they are the articulations of desperate prayers from the prison cells we sometimes experience in life.

In all seriousness, the lack of response to centuries of desperate prayers is deafening.

Not exact matches

(Acts 4:24 - 31; II Thessalonians 3:1 - 2) Prayer was thanks giving and praise, the joyful overflow of gratitude and hope, even amid difficult or desperate circumstance.

If it is granted that there is now a desperate need for an upsurge of vital prayer, why, it may be asked, are we not having it?

Even when the petitions of the Old Testament concerning public matters are not vindictive, they are commonly nationalistic, as, for example, the Isaian plea for divine interposition in Israel's desperate need, (Isaiah 63:15 - 64:12) or Daniel's great prayer for his people, (Daniel 9:4 - 19) or the ejaculatory supplications of Ezekiel, (Ezekiel 9:8; 11:13) or the elaborate petitions in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

There was no way to know if your wish that prayer worked might be related to something personal (I didn't see it as your «desperate plea») In that light, I do think some of the comments were platitudes or, worse yet, a taking to task.

Yet I still find myself in those moments of utter panic and hyperventilation when I just don't know what to do, except offer one of those short, desperate «help me» prayers to God.

Most of the 85,119 orange - and - blue - clad fans had long since disappeared into the cool Southern night, and on the bench dozens of Ford's teammates sat slumped with their heads down, as if in desperate prayer.

The breakthrough came when someone introduced me to this wonderful, great spell caster who eventually helped me out... I have never been a fan of things like this but just decided to try reluctantly because I was desperate and left with no choice... He did special prayers and used his power... Within 4 days my husband called me and he said he was sorry for all the emotional pains he had cost me, moved back to the house and we continue to live happily and our kid is happy too and we are expecting our second child... I have introduced him to a lot of couples with problems across the world and they have had good news... Just thought I should share my experience because I strongly believe someone out there need's it... You can email him through his email.

Elio Forcina had an urgent prayer request, «Please pray for the soul of a desperate mother whose children were starving in Texas - after being denied food stamps for the 5th time in months, she shot her 2 children, they are in the ICU and killed herself at the welfare office.»

The light turned green, the dim bulb returned to his multitasking, and I thought of the desperate people waiting for a kidney, a liver, a heart and sundry other body parts whose prayers might soon be answered, all thanks to me.

Rourke earned a place for himself in Hollywood with his stellar ability to mesmerize audiences in earlier films, including Michael Cimino's Desperate Hours, Alan Parker's Angel Heart, Mike Hodges» A Prayer for the Dying, Adrian Lyne's Nine 1Ž2 Weeks, Cimino's Year of the Dragon, Stuart Rosenberg's The Pope of Greenwich Village, Barry Levinson's Diner, Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat, Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish, Cimino's Heaven's Gate and Steven Spielberg's 1941.

That's not homage — that's the desperate rubbing of a talisman, a prayer to recapture lightning that leaked out of the bottle long ago.

Her efforts to gussy up feel like desperate acts of prayer from an antiquated era, as the husband is rarely seen onscreen (though he does find the time to play Dead Island).

Her views can be summed up by the title of her article: «Xbox One is a desperate prayer to stop time.»

«Desperate homeowners are duped into a false sense of security by crooked companies and think their prayers have been answered and their homes will be saved.