Sentences with phrase «petitionary prayer»
"Petitionary prayer" refers to a form of prayer where someone asks or requests something from a higher power or deity. It involves making specific requests or seeking help for oneself or others during a prayer. Full definition
Unhappily, a good deal of petitionary prayer as well as intercession seems to be based on the «magical» premise rather than the «religious» one.
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Clearly, our uncertainty about petitionary prayer reflects our uncertainty about how God governs the world.
(See, for example, Gerald Heard, A Preface to Prayer, in which prayer is distinguished as low, middle, and high, low prayer being petitionary prayer for oneself, middle prayer petition for others, and high prayer the prayer of «simple attention.»)
In twenty - first - century America, what petitionary prayer is more important than the prayer to end abortion?
The new book by Mark Karris, Divine Echoes, seeks to answer some of those questions, especially the issues surrounding petitionary prayer.
Much petitionary prayer is sanctified magic — an attempt to employ divine powers to serve human purposes.
If we hold fast to the biblical witness that God does care for us, individually as well as corporately, what must we infer about God and the world that would account for the fact that petitionary prayer sometimes seems futile?
No wonder belief in God's providential care as direct and specific for individuals engenders urgency and intensity in the actual practice of petitionary prayer.
What we might call the evangelical understanding of providence, in which God is willing and irresistibly able to intervene on behalf of particular individuals in very specific ways, leads quite naturally to heightened interest in petitionary prayer.
Petitionary prayer reflects our awe and gratitude before the fact that God continues with us in spite of the breach between him and ourselves.
Petitionary prayer, Wells wrote, is «rebellion against the world in its fallenness....
For the ritualized forms of relationship tend to be those of personalized worship: sacrifice and petitionary prayer to a deity who will hear and heed.»
Hartshorne has very little to say about Christology and is genuinely perplexed by such traditionally Christian ideas as individual survival after death and petitionary prayer.
Besides the statements quoted above, he confesses that he has very little to say about Christology and is genuinely perplexed by such traditionally Christian ideas as individual survival after death and petitionary prayer.2 May not the Christian revelation of God as Father, Son, and Spirit, illuminate his darkness and ours about these and other enigmatic mysteries?
Nevertheless, I did find his essays on Church Music, the Psalms, Petitionary Prayer, Biblical Criticism, and The Seeing Eye (about the possibility of aliens on other planets) to be insightful and «classic C. S. Lewis.»
There is no convincing evidence to show that petitionary prayers are «answered», i.e., that imploring the Deity for things that we wish will of itself hasten their coming.
However, petitionary prayer may be genuinely religious in character when instead of asking for what he selfishly wants the petitioner earnestly prays for «the will of God» to be done.
This rejection of the classic doctrine of providence entails a corresponding reduction of the place of petitionary prayer.
In petitionary prayer, we as agents of limited power join forces with
Each view, of providence, which also entails a corresponding approach to petitionary prayer, bears an insight that we dare not lose.
In petitionary prayer we are seeking to open ourselves and others to that power.
Third, this view of providence undermines the practice of petitionary prayers.
Dr. Long agonizes between his rejection of petitionary prayer and his need for it in traumatic situations.
If generous amounts of financial support were allocated to help fledgling pastoral ministries, and — bearing in mind that financial resources, while necessary, are neither the only nor the most important means at the Church's disposal — if these issues really and truly became the focus of our petitionary prayers, I believe that many congregations would be overflowing rather than dwindling.
Each view, of providence, which also entails a corresponding approach to petitionary prayer, bears an insight that we dare not...
Petitionary prayer is what calls in the air support.
Petitionary Prayer (Ephesians 6:18 b) 3.