Sentences with phrase «own prayerful»

Evan Mawarire, a pastor who has been a prominent activist against Mugabe's regime, said citizens should «remain calm and hopeful, alert but prayerful, to support and encourage each other and to stay away from violence and lawlessness, from rumors and lies.»

Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

As Evangelicals, we must remain watchful and prayerful, lest radical Islam radicalize us into redefining our witness and values out of fear and hatred.

Powerful... and prayerful and peaceful.

We recognize that confessing a high doctrine of the nature and place of Scripture is insufficient without a firm commitment to the intense devotional, disciplined, and prayerful engagement with Scripture.

For this reason, all attempts at discernment and teaching must rely on prayerful attentiveness to the guidance of the Spirit in the study of Scripture.

The theological disagreements that still separate us are serious and require prayerful reflection and sustained mutual engagement.

Although sometimes theology is prayerful and prayer can be enlightening.

We have a block in January where we are prayerful around the social issues around our day that we think are significant.

Joseph is prayerful, noble, loving, hard - working and always docile to the will of God.

We like to paint Mary in the softer hues — her robes clean, hair combed and covered, body poised in prayerful surrender — but this young woman was a fierce one, full of strength and fury.

Call it lectio divina, prayerful reading or breaking open the word.

There is no delay for caressing words of prayerful invocation; rude as a wakening alarm, we call for God to get moving.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

Difficulties and questions do arise, but the thoughtful and prayerful student will always discover an answer.

In either case, serious, prayerful reflection is required.

Dear blogger, who converted to Catholicism, I have learned that it is important to pray to God for Divine Love, which is the essence of divinity, and is conveyed to a prayerful» persons soul by the Holy Spirit.

The eucharistic prayer, the central Christian doctrinal statement, must be rediscovered as prayerful proclamation.

Her autobiography reveals her in her younger days as a prayerful person, devoted to the Blessed Sacrament and insistent on living out the principles of her faith.

Would it not be better to continue with the practice of entrusting these children, «with prayerful hope», «to the mercy of God» (as we do in the funeral rite established for them) rather than putting forward our own presumptuous speculations on their fate?

Requests for prayers in special cases are gathered up into one prayerful effort made without the help of any book.

He then conducted Eucharistic Adoration and led the Rosary with the residents of Hamilton Park, in a most meditative and prayerful manner.

This is perhaps mitigated as she links the experience of illness to scenes from Christ's ministry in order to draw out the strength that can come from a prayerful and humble attitude where even today the sick can receive Christ's healing touch and regain a true sense of self.

Consecrated virginity, the perpetual commitment of a woman who is a virgin to remain in that state, in faithfulness to Jesus Christ and prayerful service of His Church is, to say the least, counter-cultural.

Still, it clearly states in its conclusions: «We emphasise that... [there] are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge».

Most Prayerful (nominated by Leigha Cann and Abby Norman) Esther Emery with «Blessings for the Weary»

Jay, if prayer worked, then the prayerful would have less disease, live longer, have fewer divorces, miscarriages, children with birth defects, car accidents, kids on drugs, etc, etc, etc..

Include times of praise, thanksgiving and contemplation, and prayerful meditation on Bible passages... but not all at once!

Emphasis ought to lie on the prayerful, Spirit - generated agenda to which each task - support group senses that it is being led.

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.»

As I sat in prayerful meditation last night, a great, deafening blast from a heavenly horn heralded the arrival of a ghostly being of terrible power.

It looks like he is in a prayerful posture behind a pulpit.

And, as for religion, reverent, prayerful worship is at the heart of it.

I am a former Christian and very prayerful, reflective and informed.

Their prayerful dialogue of oratio was directed to a loving repose in contemplatio that would in turn adorn their lives with virtues through actio.

We have too often sought God logically in the «left brain» rather than expanding our use of the right hemisphere of the brain where intuitive, prayerful, loving, visual thinking occurs — where we pray, believe, love and develop a consciousness of the total mind - body - spirit relationship.

As the day went on, grown men were crying, priests were hugging, groups of faithful praying the rosary covered the square, and everyone was reflective and prayerful.

Not only Notre Dame, but also the Church and the community at large, have lost a powerful and prayerful voice for these precepts.

We saw something similar as the corrections of the English translations of the Mass were adopted over a year ago, when bringing the American Church into prayerful unity with the rest of the Catholic world (where «and with your spirit» had never been dropped) was an occasion for high drama and sad, heavy sighs among American Catholics in habitual tension with Rome.

A prayerful reading of Salvifici Doloris shows that John Paul not only lived the Gospel of suffering himself.

There's no excuse for anything less than a prayerful, joyous liturgy here, even if it is 7:30 in the morning.

The former county Councillor said that her faith will play a part in her now role as an MP and she will «definitely» be prayerful about her decisions and her constituents.

Every moment that we stop and begin to move our lips in prayerful words towards God is a testament to the notion of purposeful creation.

The community social action groups can be developed by such prayerful reflection and community action.

All of their work takes place in the context of strong financial and prayerful support from local individuals, the majority of whom are members of churches in Luton and its surrounding towns.

Instead, I learned it through the careful and prayerful study of Scripture as I seek God's face and listen to His whispering through the words of God on the written page and the Word of God in Jesus Christ.

But such times, as needful as they are, are not necessarily any more sacred or any more prayerful than other times.

From one's prayerful and wholesome acceptance of death he saw how the Christian faith can work.

it is through the devotional, «spiritual,» prayerful practice of Christianity that one has a «real apprehension» (as contrasted with a merely «notional apprehension») of what doctrinal statements are all about.»

Moreover, because the prayerful response is made by finite people, because theologians are overwhelmed by the magnitude of what they have received, their theological constructions must be put forward humbly.