Sentences with phrase «of earnest prayer»
Urging Christians to pray, the church's statement concluded: «Finally, we urge the Lord's people to make this situation a matter of earnest prayer, asking the Almighty that in His kindness He will grant that no mosque will ever appear in Stornoway.
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In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»
Soul - friends got regular phone calls, notes of encouragement, hilarious greeting cards, a truly listening ear, earnest prayers, pick - me - up stories and gifts of grace.
What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.
To suppose that prayer will take the place of earnest thought on the moral life has led to much acceptance of the status quo and hallowing of our own self - centered impulses.
Reflecting on her prayer not being answered she said: «I think about Jesus in the garden in Gethsemane and he's praying, sweating drops of blood in earnest praying out to God the father, giving him his desires... but your will be done.
We should: - Pray earnest, deep, sincere, heart felt prayers (Luke 22:44, 1 Samuel 1 — examples of Jesus and Hannah).
Yet churches and synagogues evoke awareness of the cycles of life; they call to mind earnest prayer and resolve, the observances of birth, marriage and death.
And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.
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.
The means he used for revival were «simply preaching, prayer, and conference meetings, much private prayer, and much personal conversation, and meetings for the instruction of earnest inquirers.»
One could also find within Barcelona the influence of Dreyer's Ordet, in the scene of Fred's «resurrection» during Ted's earnest prayer.
This book explores, in depth: • God's wonder at our lack of prayer • God's incredible promises concerning those who do pray • God's condition for providing signs • God's desire for earnest prayer • God's perspective on hindrances to prayer The Lord Jesus is as powerful today as ever before.