Sentences with phrase «prayer for wisdom»

The scriptures give that challenge straight up with all the risks involved when it comes to asking God in prayer for wisdom.

I realized this as I reflected on these texts — Solomon's prayer for wisdom rather than riches, Jesus» parables of treasure and pearl and fishes, and Paul's affirmation that God works for good with (or for) those who love him.

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.

Hmm — whose prayers change things, and why doesn't all prayer change things... a friend asked for a new house — got one; another friend asked to be cured from leukemia, God didn't answer her prayers — she died; another friend asked for wisdom on how to care for her elderly father, an alcoholic — still drinks, she still has no knowledge on what to do about it — never thought to maybe look up information about elder care.

When young Solomon prays for wisdom at the beginning of his kingship — a prayer that pleases God — he asks for a heart that discerns good and evil, using the same language that gives a name to this tree (1 Kings 3:9).

Even back during my most fundamentalist / evangelical / pentecostal years I felt that, rather than being for the purpose of entreating God to intervene in circumstances or change others, prayer was a way to draw strength, comfort, courage, and wisdom for dealing with those circumstances.

«Our main prayer before games is for God to grant us strength and wisdom to play fair and Christ - like.»

Yes, praying for wisdom is a dangerous prayer as well.

and from your description were praying in vain rather than truly seeking for wisdom... so no PRAYER did NOT do this... just becauise some ABUSE it..

Now it is likely that they worked harder and longer as I prayed (outloud) for God to guide them and give them strength and wisdom... or was it answered prayer... would the results have been the same - clearly not because the situation was altered either by God, prayer or simply the hearing of a plea by the surgens and staff.

A great deal of education in political affairs is needed, for prayer is no substitute for political wisdom.

Petition covers a wide range of elements, but should at the least include prayer not only for forgiveness but for wisdom and strength to go forward in closer fellowship with God and obedience to his will.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

May your soul long for prayer and for the Scriptures, may you keep secrets, may you give away your money, may you share your meals, may you sit alone in silence outside under the sky and be satisfied, may you change the bedding in the middle of the night after yet another childish accident without anger, may you hold babies, and comfort the dying, and be the voice of knowledge tempered with grace and wisdom, and may you never forget how to sing and be silly.

Furthermore, Christians not only have a role to play through godly work and humble prayer, we have biblical wisdom to offer for every sphere of work, every workplace and every worker.

Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.

Every day is a day of prayer from me for President Obama for guidance and wisdom in leading this nation.

What is important is not to decide in each case just how much effect prayer had, for lacking divine wisdom we can not estimate the delicate balance of forces involved.

For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life,.For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life,.for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life,....

For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou has given us in our Savior Jesus Christ.&raqFor the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou has given us in our Savior Jesus Christ.&raqfor the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou has given us in our Savior Jesus Christ.»

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

«It is my prayers that God, in His infinite mercies will grant him (Fayemi) the wisdom and strength to use the new position for the betterment of Ekiti State in particular and Nigeria in general,» the governor said.

prayers for safety and stability for your son there and wisdom for you here.

In a previous article I wrote about a parallel topic to this one, I mentioned The Serenity Prayer, a common name for an originally untitled prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, is universally apropos to any kind of change, and equally valid for the Canadian real estate industry: «Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.&Prayer, a common name for an originally untitled prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, is universally apropos to any kind of change, and equally valid for the Canadian real estate industry: «Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.&prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, is universally apropos to any kind of change, and equally valid for the Canadian real estate industry: «Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.»

I love the personal way you have just shared... truly a home is where our family is... the rest is just our surroundings... the physical space where HOME is... bless you as you make these decisions and yes... a prayer lifted for wisdom and guidance as you seek God's best plan for those over whom He has given you charge < 3