Sentences with phrase «prayer of jabez»

The prayer is wry and ironic but hardly a formula for personal success much less a substitute for the prayer of Jesus.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that the World Council of Churches is a great witness of the Christian response to the prayer of our Lord that we may all be one.

Oh, they may let you off the hook long enough to pray the prayer of salvation, but as soon as that's done it's back to «Come to us, all who are weary and heavy - laden, so that you can be our bond - servants with your tithes and volunteer service.

It is on the basis of «biblical teaching» that we would challenge The Prayer of Jabez, for it seriously distorts that teaching.

Bruce Wilkinson's popular book, The Prayer of Jabez, would substitute the prayer of Jabez from I Chronicles for the Lord's prayer.

But if he won't listen to the truth then he needs the prayer of others...

It reminds me of a man who said to me about his refusal to join in a prayer of confession in our church one Sunday, «Hell, I'm not that bad!»

When a prayer of yours in answered, that is God showing you that He loves you.

Readers of The Prayer of Jabez may come to imagine God as a cosmic Santa Claus, merrily doling out gifts to any individual who asks.

So it's not politically correct to open this convention up with a prayer of any faith.

If these trends continue, the Sunday morning prayer of confession may need rewording:

Naturally, the most effective way to discourage those practices is to destroy the sites in Mecca where prayer of this sort happens.

Amar Nath seemed to be a reasonably sensible fellow, so I asked him why they persisted in running candidates in elections they didn't have the slightest prayer of winning.

Make your prayer this week the prayer of the man in Mark 9:24, «Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.»

We do not know how or when, but we do believe that the prayer of our Lord in John 17 will be answered, that his disciples will be one in a way that the world will see and will style =» mso - spacerun: yes» > believe that he was sent by the Father.

All of this is reiterated and clarified in John 10 (which will be looked at in a future post), and the prayer of Jesus in John 17:2 - 24.

Our visibly fractured fellowship at the Lord's table can, at the same time, be a salutary reminder of how far we are from the goal of complete unity, and a spur to more urgent prayer and work that one day the prayer of Jesus in John 17 will be fully answered.

The Book of Common Prayer had this meaning in view when it employs, in the course of the Prayer of Consecration in the service of Holy Communion, the words: «Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Savior Jesus Christ, we, thy humble servants, do celebrate and make here, before thy Divine Majesty, with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.»

Inward sorrow is fulfilled in the prayer of petition; inward joy in the prayer of thanksgiving.

With this in mind, many have said that the anointing here in James 5 is therefore symbolic of the Holy Spirit at work in the individual through the prayer of faith to heal the sick person.

I think the prayer of Jesus I quoted earlier sums it all up.

He freely acknowledges that the traditional Anglican formularies of the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 (and to a greater and lesser extent the Prayer books of 1549, 1552, and 1559) seem patient of either a more Catholic interpretation or a more Protestant interpretation.

James says that the prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much (James 5:16), and James gives the example of Elijah whose prayers kept it from raining for three years, and then prayed for it to rain and it did.

I believe the prayer of one is just as powerful as the prayer of many.

In 2005, members of the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist adopted a formal proposition questioning whether the sign of peace might be better placed elsewhere in the Mass, for example at the end of the prayer of the faithful and before the offering of the gifts.

The disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray and he gave them a very simple straightforward prayer of great profundity.

The prayer of thanksgiving in both Latin and English liturgies today makes this abundantly clear.

We do not know what effect such prayers will have, but we do know that all generous prayer is valued by God, and while God always does the best that can be done in every circumstance, we may cherish the thought that God also can use prayer of that kind for furthering the divine purposes for good, though it may be in a way past human comprehension.

This is part of an opening prayer of adoration sung by a local Paraiyar Pucari, K. Pallaiyasn.

@zeus The only prayer God will hear from you is the sinners prayer of repentance.

4:10, NRSV) Bruce Wilkinson's The Prayer of Jabez rode the top...

To quote the prayer of the workers at Mother Teresa's orphanage at Caluctta, «Dearest Lord, may I see you, today and everyday, in the person of your sick, and whilst nursing them, minister unto you.

Some that have helped my dear friends: theology, solitude retreats, liturgy, guided meditation, Taize, inductive Bible study, seminary, Lectio Divina, reading the mystics and Desert Fathers, travel, silence, serving, fasting, the Prayer of the Examen.

The content, and to a considerable extent the form, of these materials resembles the later Anaphora or eucharistic prayer of the Church, and the passages explicitly addressed to the Lamb have reminded scholars that Pliny the Younger, in his letter about the Christians, says that they were accustomed to address a hymn (carmen) to Christ.

It is less prolix than the prayer of David (I Chron 29:10 - 111), which probably afforded a pattern for it.

First, there is the general prayer of thanksgiving.

Here for example is a prayer of the Omahas.

When serving God, you need to have it as the prayer of your heart that you will serve because God wants you to, and because He sees what you are doing, even if nobody else does.

The prayer of the Church as taught by Paul was no longer, «Let grace come and let this world pass away.

This is the continual, unceasing, fervent prayer of Paul for his brothers and sisters in Christ.

«He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import — that is to say, its full import.

But does this discredit the prayer of petition?

Not they typical «sinner's prayer», but a prayer of the saved.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

Here belongs the prayer of cleansing that must accompany self - examination and confession:

So you claim Maccabees, Enoch, Jubilees, Psalms 152 - 155, the Prayer of Solomon, Ascension of Isaiah, Baruch, Ethiopic Lamentations and many more to be complete modern fabrications that were never included by early Christians or Jews in their early canons thus making the current version the only true version that has ever actually existed?

The prayer for a sense of God's presence, often referred to as the prayer of communion, belongs in the midst of every other kind of prayer.

There was a craze a couple of years ago over a little book called, The Prayer of Jabez.

The prayer of Jesus in the Upper Room culminates in a drumbeat of repetitions concerning «the love with which you [God] have loved me» (17:26; cf. 23 — 25).

As it is put in the classic words of the Prayer of General Confession: