Sentences with phrase «of prayer practices»

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Prayer is a nonthreatening religious practice, regardless of the faith.

It is worth remembering that the practice of inaugural prayer was reinstituted, after a lapse of 144 years, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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...

The ancient practice of liturgy has helped us see how God is remaking us into a people who can become the answer to the prayers the Spirit is praying through us.

In short, prayer is the practice of the presence of God.

The monastery's publishing program has had more success, with more than a hundred new titles each year, covering all areas of church life: Christian spirituality, church history, Scripture, church music and arts, Orthodox ascetic practices, monasticism, liturgy and church prayer, and the lives of the saints.

In fact I'll just be listening for his heart, not his head — not the practiced answer but the one that comes out of pain and prayer.

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

Some religions say that the sun and the moon stand for the practices of prayer and meditation.

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

When her mother, the daughter and granddaughter of Methodist ministers, died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis in a series of recollections penned for friends and family remembered her mother especially for her evangelical piety and practice: her conversion at age 12; her lifelong work in a Methodist Sunday school in Grafton, West Virginia; her habits of secret prayer, her graces at table; and her abiding affection for her favorite hymns.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

Religion News Service: Man spends 12 months practicing 12 different religions, and finds peace at year's end Andrew Bowen sat yoga - style in his armchair, absent - mindedly fingering a set of Muslim prayer beads in his left hand as he talked about 2011 - his year of conversion.

Practice the prayer of examen each day.

I think awfully difficult conversations like this in a forum that requires no transparency (how do we know any of us is who we are unless we practice some disclosure) and involves kids that will have access to this whole conversation, especially amongst Christians, ought to be marked by caution, prayer, discretion and deliberation.

Your description of prayer makes me think of a «practice».

Jesus warned us: «Beware of practicing your piety before other people in order to be seen by them» — an admonition that applied to all forms of publicized giving, all forms of public prayer, all forms of shared self - reproach.

Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence, Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to share In some impossible benevolence, To care and not to care my muted prayer; Despite the years of practiced lassitude, And fearful of the all - consuming dare, Adrift, unmoored, bereft of gratitude, Consumed, perplexed, and wondering how I'll fare — When of a sudden you greet me as a guest Within the great Unknowing Cloud, the why Forgotten.

I know that most people in my worshiping community have never heard of these folks — they're too busy housing homeless folks, working with the Interfaith Food Shuttle, and practicing the Prayer of Examen in our small groups.

«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.

Every day millions of faithful souls in monasteries and back pews and small apartments exercise the priesthood of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church as the beating heart brings blood to the body.

Islam is also opposed to the practice of withdrawing into monasteries or caves to repeat prayers.

This is a form of prayer for the world as the body of God that we, as lovers and friends of the world, are summoned to practice.

But the Biblical concept of prayer, as practiced by Christ Himself as a model for us, is to seek and obtain God's will, and they pray for God's will to be done (even if that means going to the cross).

It is the duty of the Caliph or Imam, the leader in Islam, to consolidate public opinion, execute judgments, administer state machinery, encourage the faithful in the practice of their faith, such as prayers and the religious tax, and look after affairs of public interest with the guidance of a parliamentary democracy, the basis of government in Islam.

Given this interest in spiritual practices and things monastic, it is not surprising that more and more people are practicing the daily office (also called «divine office,» «office,» «liturgy of the hours» or «common prayer»).

Prayer is vital, and gathering with other believers is vital, and praying together with others is vital, but none of this requires a regularly scheduled prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches Prayer is vital, and gathering with other believers is vital, and praying together with others is vital, but none of this requires a regularly scheduled prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches today.

Before the quality and range of such petition much of the historic and contemporaneous practice and theory of prayer in the church should stand ashamed.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

Such prayer in the midst of life's daily commands is the secret of Brother Lawrence's Practice of the Presence of God, which every Christian would do well to reread at intervals.

A closely related attitude which repels the mood and practice of prayer is self - sufficiency.

When, centuries later, Brother Lawrence described prayer as establishing oneself «in a sense of God's presence by continually conversing with Him,» (The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, «First Conversation.»)

Kruse explains how many things Americans take for granted came to be: the presence of «under God» in the Pledge of Allegiance, the adoption of «In God We Trust» as a national motto, the annual «presidential» prayer breakfast, and the presidential practice of ending speeches with «may God bless America.»

There is no way of knowing how many people have given up the practice of prayer because it seemed to them hokum — in plain language «the bunk» — but the number must run into many millions.

One of the aspects of modern life most detrimental to personality in general, and not alone to the practice of prayer, is that the individual person is so seldom alone.

And all of these practices — from prayer to communion to fellowship to reading Scripture — give us glimpses of the day when that union will be realized, when we will all gather at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

The pastor should regularly offer guidance for the practice of prayer in sermons and in adult education courses.

Mindfulness has a rich history in the Christian tradition through the ancient practice of contemplative prayer, which dates back to the Desert Fathers and Mothers during the fourth and fifth centuries.

According to the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, «Christian clergy delivered each and every one of the prayers for the first nine years of the town's prayer practice, and nearly all of the prayers thereafter.»

If one believes in prayer enough to make the effort and has learned to practice the presence of God, inward prayer in the midst of the most crowded environment is possible.

This desire for union with God and the love of others are the heart of contemplative prayer; particular practices are secondary.

This idea, however, is only vaguely discernible before Jeremiah, and its effective popular influence on the meaning and practice of prayer was long postponed.

We are more in tune with the secular world of the workplace than with the tradition of meditative prayer and the practice of the presence of God in closet, home, and workplace.

The have left the cultural world to focus and devote their lives to God in the simple and daily practices of prayer, ritual, and service.

In our discussion we shall ask first what theological statements can be made on the subject of private prayer, examining afterwards if liturgical prayer (as distinct from the Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments with which we are not here concerned) can be preferred to it at all, and if so, what such a preference means for the practice of the Christian life.

Of course not, that is why there is prayer and practicing the teachings, to see for them selves how their faith applies to their lives.

More than an intellectual manifesto, the invitation pledges signers to specific spiritual practices: maintaining a vital prayer life, conducting works of mercy and engaging in a regular Friday fast «as a form of prayerful resistance to the idolatrous practices of our culture.»

For me I figured that if there is a God out there who does who does actually have a plan for us and if part of that plan is to not be made known but would rather have us develop faith, and if the reason for why we need to have faith is to see if we are going to follow God because we choose to instead of being made to have to follow, and if the reason for all of those commandments is to somehow be for our benefit, and if I really want to and need to know, which I did, and that this supposed God wanted for us to find out through study, prayer and trying to practice those teachings to see for ourselves and then make our choice, then I figured to do just that and find out for myself.