Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 4:6 ESV - Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Paul in his letters often thanks God for his fellow Christians and calls upon them «in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving» to let their requests be made known unto God.
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
John would not have said [as Hebrews does] that Jesus «was touched with the feeling of our infirmities,» that «he was tempted in all points like as we are,» that «he offered up
prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death.»
Not exact matches
Yet at this moment our nation joins
with us in
prayer and supplication that despite political differences within these chambers,
and despite the fact that at times we may take for granted things that are unique to our American democracy, that we be united in hope
and aspiration for the future of our nation... Our nation prays
with us as we ask that our leaders be endowed
with wisdom.
For instance, if God decides to give me a
prayer of
supplication «
with groanings too deep for words» (Rom 8:26 ESV)
and I am at the same time on a walk in the park or I am cooking dinner, it is not uncommon that I immediately start to weep somehow publicly.
Paul tells the Philippians, «Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
prayer and supplication,
with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God;
and the peace of God, which surpasses understanding, will guard your hearts
and minds through Jesus Christ» (Philippians 4:6 - 7).
and second, the approach to God by way of animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the sacrifices were always accompanied by
supplications, they had competed
with personal
prayer, had furnished for many people a public substitute for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion
with the lament «We have nothing to bring but
prayer.»
Some might call our words of adoration,
supplication, tongues
and singing as
prayers, I myself would call it worship, but does it really matter how I communicate
with God.
Almighty God, from whom every good
prayer cometh,
and who pourest out on all who desire it the spirit of grace
and supplication; deliver us, when we draw nigh to thee, from coldness of heart
and wanderings of mind, that
with steadfast thoughts
and kindled affections we may worship thee in spirit
and in truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
This sweat was accompanied, we know from elsewhere, by weeping: «In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up
prayers and supplications,
with loud cries
and tears» (Heb.
- Talk to God walk
with him every minute of the day: Ephesians 6:18 (RSV): «Pray at all times in the Spirit,
with all
prayer and supplication.
God's Word says, «Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
prayer and supplication,
with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus» (Phil.
«In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up
prayers and supplications,
with loud cries
and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death...» (Heb.
In 5:7 he writes that Jesus «
with loud cries
and tears offered up
prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save Him».
His
prayer first gathers things together,
with tradition perhaps upholding
and giving reference to his day - by - day experience,
and then holds it up in
supplication, penitence, or thanksgiving to the light of God.
In the midst of that suffering Jesus cried out
with tears, not for revenge
and not in hate, but «
with prayers and supplications... to the one who was able to save.»
we much take into account all scriptures, such as Hebrews 5:7 (ESV) 7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up
prayers and supplications,
with loud cries
and tears, to him who was able to save him from death,
and he was heard because of his reverence.
«In the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up
prayers and supplications,
with loud cries
and tears... He learned obedience through what He suffered;
and being made perfect He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.»