Sentences with phrase «prayer works through»

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«It's a sad day for the National Guard, and our thoughts and prayers are with the families of everyone involved and everyone with the National Guard as we work through this,» he said.

I am very much a christain, I love God with my whole being and have seen his work through the power of prayer.

A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor — I go through swings with Flannery O'Connor's work — I won't read her for years and then all of a sudden, I can't stop for a month.

Some of those involved in the Movement make the formal commitment of Membership, which consists in an agreement to uphold its Aims and Ideals, to abide by its Constitution, and to support its activities through prayer, work and financial assistance.

No, I need to the Spirit to be breathing in my daily work, in labour and breastfeeding, in bedtime soul - talks and lunch packing, in book edits and deadlines, in email and community - building, in budget docs for non-profits and the never - ending prayers for redemption and reconciliation and rescue to break through in this tired world of ours.

We will work through prayer and discipleship for the transformation of lives through Jesus Christ.

Or indeed should we concentrate on teaching personal prayer, spirituality and devotion, or perhaps on practical Christianity through charitable works and the transformation of society with Catholic values, such as pro-life issues.

The future Kingdom of God, then, is not something which is to come in the course of time, so that to advance its coming one can do something in particular, perhaps through penitential prayers and good works, which become superfluous in the moment of its coming.

So we work with an extraordinary network of intercessors around the world who do the work of justice through prayer.

Do you think people never worked through the night to accomplish something unless prayer «made» them do it?

He has saved my life twice from the bondages of satan and his minions with this prayer with God working through him to deliver me and others out of darkness and from oprression and possession.

When this problem was worked through in counseling, vitality returned to his prayer life.

... When God saves people in this life by working through his Spirit to bring them to faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.

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).

It affirmed that the ministry is a gift of God through Christ to his church, and is essential to the being and well - being of the church, that men gifted for the work of the ministry, called by the Spirit and accepted by the church, are commissioned through an act of ordination by prayer and the laying on of hands.

In fact, however, in the liturgy of the Presence it is we who are worked on through the scriptures and the prayers, we who get to be reconfigured and brought into the life of the changeless One.

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.

... even if we are prevented from clarifying our minds by talking things over, we can still pray, and it is only in the spirit of prayer that any such work (intellectual discussion with the world and risk saying controversial things) can be begun and carried through.37

Prayer for First Sunday of Advent: «Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholeness.

The cross is commemorated not in separation from the rest of Christ's life and work but as the final symbolic expression of a total self - giving to God, in which through prayer and thanksgiving Christians are enabled to share.

Prisoners have a head start on this, he says: «God has done so much of the work already through our agony that we need only finish the job during silent inner prayer.

The problem with prayer is that too many believers think they are finished on Sunday, begging for forgiveness for the the sins they comit Monday through Saturday and never trully working to be a decent human the rest of the time.

It is rare to find a congregation where members realize that it is the life work of all Christians to seek and find God's will, that this is learned through corporate Bible study and prayer.

Dr. DuBose said that God will not work in spite of us, but in us and through us; and often enough our problems about prayer are really caused by our assumption that prayer is answered by some bolt from the blue which contradicts everything that we have ever done, ever known, ever thought.

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.

Can they get «worked up» about having to sit through a Christian prayer?

The courageous work of pro-life groups in vigils at abortion clinics, of street pastors working with clubbers at night - time in city centres, of those offering prayer ministry for healing in shopping centres, of street evangelisers such as the St Patrick's group in Soho - all these examples need to be better known, and imitated.1 Then there's the output of media groups working through radio, TV, internet sites, blogs and video teaching programmes, such as Catholic Evangelisation Services; these too, while offering an independent type of Christian teaching, provide an important stimulus to on - the - ground evangelising.

I'm a non-church Christian... I rely on prayer... and I put my money into doing good works instead of it being run through a church building that takes it cut.

Prayer is our willed «engagement» or identification with God in this great cosmic adventure, our willed linking of our littleness with God's greatness through the opening of our lives to the working of the divine Charity in us and through us and for us.

«Those who feel they are powerful and important need to recognise... that they are no more important than anyone else who works here from someone who cleans the building through to people who work in offices - we are all equal made in the image of God and we need to live those relationships well and that is my prayer.»

I could do all the religious stuff (attend church every week, go to 5 am prayer, attend a bunch of church groups, etc) but I see that as attempting to get into heaven through putting in work.

Again and again his admiration for the Muslim way of life breaks through, and he uses the term «works of perfection» to refer to their devotion to study, regularity in prayer, faithfulness in almsgiving, hospitality, reverence for the name of God, and community solidarity.

The Spirit's leading works through prayer in the Spirit.

Even those with voluminous prayer lists can feel as if they are working alone, racing through the dark with their petitions like a midnight mail carrier

Similarly, the minister who elicits trust in healing prayer isn't the one promising perfect results, but the one who acts as a guide through the thicket of the spiritual world — urging and helping others to accept their responsibility to work as partners with Jesus Christ, who respectfully and lovingly stands at the door and knocks, but waits for us to open.

As well as sharing in God's work of creating people, husbands and wives also have a share in God's work of bringing them to salvation, bringing them into union with Christ in the Church by getting them baptised, bringing them to be fed by Christ in the Eucharist and to be cared for by him in the other sacraments; bringing them to know and love God through teaching, prayer, bible reading and example.

And just as we can ponder on the Unity Law on many levels throughout creation, and marvel at God's work either in simplicity of principle or in great depth of detail, so too in the rosary we can contemplate the Mystery of Christ at many levels, from the childlike words of trust and confidence contained in the prayers themselves, through meditation on the mysteries of our Lord's loving work for us, to the heights of mystical union with the Mind and Heart of Christ.

Through conscious and intentional action and consent, prayer makes possible a working of the divine Charity that otherwise might have been impeded or even prevented.

We learn, then, that the child's prayer for this or that is harmless; but the adult's prayer must be childlike, not childish — it will be the acceptance of God's will, humbly and gladly, as we come to see that in and through everything «God is working towards a good end for those that love him.»

I cant praise God enough for the internet we cant be ignorant these if we want to learn anything all we have to do is to jump on the internet for answers since I have accepted Jesus as my personal savior thirty five years ago i cant stop myself to share my experience with people but since i lost my husband through a tragic accident my life took a different turn my savior became more personal and real to me i give myself full to the lord and the result of that people stat asking me for bible study which i have never done in my life so I decided to search the net and i came across your website which put the whole gospel in a simple way and i am going to use it for my first bible study and see how the holy spirit will lead from there.I came to the conclusion that our trials is a blessing in disguise and i praise God for it.keep up the good work God bless Martina keep me in prayer please

The decision to commit to a church may have many different factors — and ultimately requires a lot of prayer, but here are a few questions to ask as you work through the decision:

It said: «May they, too, respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit who is at work in their lives through the prayers of His people by drawing them with cords of God's unfailing and everlasting love.»

And it is most folk religion and natural religion which knows that there is suffering and cross in life, which we may escape by appeasing the right god, wearing the right amulet, incanting the right spell or prayer, changing states of consciousness through pleasure or pain or other things... It does not usually work out.

Since the purpose of the community is to release its members from the problems inherent in possessions, in sexual and family life and in the detailed and general ordering of one's own life, so to be able to serve God through the prayer and work of the community, then the sense of importance attached to every item of its life can become unbeatable, or totally glorious.

This classical pattern of Eucharist, Office, Meditation, and more informal prayers scattered through the systematic day's work has been commended to generations of budding clerics ever since.

I had an overwhelming peace through prayer that God already knew what was ahead and He had already equipped us to work through these trials ahead, heartbreak and all.

He thanked God for making it possible for him to attain the level of celebrating golden jubilee, adding that it was achieved through prayer, perseverance, love and hard work.

SHE SAVED MY MARRIAGE AND BLESSED ME FINANCIALLY THROUGH A SPECIAL PRAYERS THAT ACTIVATED THE ANOINTING OIL WHICH ALSO CONQUERED MY ENEMIES AT MY WORK PLACE.Several years of unhappiness in my marriage led to loneliness, continuous crying and suffering, after hearing about mama with a healing hand, i decided to visit her in her temple where she read my fortune accurately and told me about my past life, my marriage and business and in a MAGIC POT OF ANOINTED OIL.She performed a special prayer according to the BIBLE IN THE BOOK OF RUTH CHAPTER 1, NAOMI TOLD RUTH TO WASH HERSELF AND PUT THE ANOINTING OIL ON AND GO AND LAY BESIDE BOAZ AND HE WOULD ACCEPT HER AND MARRY HER!

«More recently, we have worked with others to tackle the growing problem of some evangelical churches in the UK promoting «miracle cures» for HIV through prayer, anointment and other methods.