Sentences with phrase «prayers of praise»

The perpetual round of prayers of praise, thanksgiving and petition in the churches had still spoken of God's all - comprehending presence.

And certainly there are other kinds of prayer that can have meaning for us: prayers for guidance, prayers of praise, prayers whose goal is meditation on God or a feeling of union with God.

It is a prayer of praise that acknowledges the hope of a future life filled with God's will.

In the prayer of praise, the Berakah, he does not simply thank the Father for the great events of past history, but also for his own «exaltation.»

Not exact matches

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

It is no wonder that Mary's song of praise has become one of the church's most potent prayers.

At the same time, Anna's decades of daily worship, her continual prayer and fasting, led her to burst into praise and testimony when she encountered the child.

However we may feel about adoration and praise, including it in «vocal» prayer or letting it serve as a kind of borderline approach to «mental» prayer, it is obvious that when we come to meditation we are concerned with a kind of exercise that can quite readily be carried on with no verbal articulation u such.

Only then can we hope to know those wonderful grace - filled moments; times when through prayer and song, listening to and reciting the familiar words of grace and the stories of redemption, our hearts soar; times when we are caught up in the stream of love — when we sing praise to God with all our hearts and minds and souls and strength — which flows from us to God through the ministry of Christ and his people and which we return to God with prayer and praise.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

An «arrow prayer» is a very simple and direct petition or word of thanksgiving and praise, which may be said at any time and in any place.

(Acts 4:24 - 31; II Thessalonians 3:1 - 2) Prayer was thanks giving and praise, the joyful overflow of gratitude and hope, even amid difficult or desperate circumstance.

The man who considered prayer «the Church's banquet» and an «engine against th «Almighty» provides in these pages an example of how to pray unceasingly; intercession, praise, and thanksgiving are always on the parson's lips.

Again, in the words of Henry van Dyke, «Honest toil is holy service; faithful work is praise and prayer.»

For example, praising God by naming both an attribute and action of God would avoid the mistaken dualism that sometime creeps into Christian piety and prayer when divine actions and attributes are separated.

Prayers of adoration, praise, and thanksgiving for the Godhead in and of themselves may pass over the heads of most congregants.

I am ashamed of the way I judge those I deem judgmental, the way I stumble through my day without prayer, the way I issue praises to heaven in one breath and curse my brothers in the next, the way I talk a big game about loving others and then brush past the woman crying in the airport, the way cynicism seeps into my bones, the way I zone out in front of my wireless glowing mirror in a pathetic effort to avoid confronting it all.

They gathered in one another's homes for fellowship meals, for the hearing of the Gospel, for the prayers and joyful songs in which they expressed their praise and gratitude to God for the newly received faith and hope.

Poems of prayer and praise.

Neither prayer, nor praise, nor the hearing of the Word will be pleasant or profitable to persons who have left their hearts behind them.»

We must construct new models, new pageantry, new hymns, new forms of prayer, new anthems of praise, new dramatizations, in which, for example, the labor movement may be caught up in the embrace of religion, the peace movement, the civic conscience, the community spirit, the family and every great aspiration of our time.

Missionary work to «save the heathens» who use a different word to praise God, any word that is different than their own... even though the other peoples and cultures don't speak English and have their own words of prayer... How many churches respected other cultures and how many do now?

The Norito, literally «words spoken to the kami,» or divinity, are largely ritualistic prayers containing stanzas of praise and thanksgiving to the gods, and special petitions suited to the particular occasion for which they are being employed.

The prayers of the Church which have been used through the centuries, such as the English Book of Common Prayer, contain many moods but center in the adoration and praise which lie at the heart of worship.

This linking of thanksgiving with praise is evident in great numbers of the Biblical prayers.

Most of the prayers and hymns used in the churches over the centuries do not present the message of love leading to justice, but rather individualistic petitions to God, praise of God or sometimes a triumphalistic thanksgiving for being Christians.

At the end of that year, He gave his life to God, because 85 % of the prayers and praise reports matched.

Here is exactly what one of the thanksgiving prayers in the Eucharist asks: that we «offer God our souls and bodies, to be a living sacrifice», which means that we know ourselves to be «sent out to live and work to God's praise and glory.»

Any twelve Jews were allowed to form a synagogue, and, although many Christians may have continued at least for a time as members of normal Jewish synagogues (Acts 6:9, 9:29), they probably established house - synagogues of their own as well; to the usual scripture - reading and interpretation, followed by prayer and praise to God, they brought a new and special unity of purpose.

If I came on here with nothing but praise for intense / deep prayer and meditation claiming just how beneficial it is, then you would without a doubt be in favour of intense / deep prayer and meditation......... you would be singing a different tune.

We begin with types of prayer designed to call us to attention, move through praise, confession, intercession, thanks, and so on.

The day may not be far off when in every branch of Christendom the centrality of the Lord's Supper will again be recognized, as the Catholic tradition and the great Reformers recognized it, and the eucharistic action will again be the usual and normal way in which, Sunday by Sunday, Christians gather to offer their prayer and praise to God through Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Those who heard Peter's preaching were baptised, and — again in the words of Scripture — «they continued steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles and in the communion of the breaking of bread and in prayers... praising God and being in favour with all the people» (Acts 2:41 - 47).

Although Jesus heals this daughter of the promise in a synagogue, and although she is said to respond with praise, her voice is lost in the recorded testimony Like the old prophet Anna in the temple (Luke 2:38), «certain women» who gathered in prayer before Pentecost (Acts 1:14), or the four daughters of Philip who have the gift of prophecy (Acts 21:9), the woman of Luke 13 is not heard.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breaPrayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breaprayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

My principal problem with the flood of «how to create community» books is not that they're trying to create community, but the terminally silly means they're using to do it — Super Bowls and tailgate parties, nachos and beer instead of the means God gave us: prayer and praise, bread and wine.

I got to the point where I didn't think I could listen to one more sermon, one more «praise report,» one more prayer request (that I knew would never be answered), one more «message from the Lord» in the form of speaking in tongues and interpretation, or one more «prophecy.»

The psalm is a prayer of one who is poor, humble, distressed, broken - hearted, crushed in spirit, but who confidently blessed the Lord «at all times» with praise «always on my lips» for «The Lord hears the cry of the poor.»

Indeed it may be called the Christian sacrifice, for it is the offering of thanks, praise, and prayers, along with bread and wine, to God known through Christ.

Sometimes my prayers are filled with the words of praise, other times I'm praying with grief and brokenness, sometimes I'm angry and I believe God can handle it.

The daily offices of morning and evening prayer, the litany, the penitential offices, the provisions made for the care of the sick, the marriage of Christian people, the burial of the dead — these are all part of the great traditional experience of public or «common» prayer and praise, and they further establish us in relationship with God in Christ.

To adore God, to praise Him for what He is, to delight in Him: this is the heart of prayer, and anything that we may wish to say about the answering of our personal or corporate desires must come a long way after the adoration which we owe to God.

I remember reading a list of the five elements of prayer: praise, thanksgiving, confession, petition (for self) and intercession (for others).

This is the prayer that precedes the canticle we know as the Magnificat (Luke 1:46 - 55), and we can hear this earlier prayer as the prior condition of the possibility of that overflowing outburst of praise and thanksgiving.

Psalms of despair usually end with praise, he said, so praise is the only fitting prayer for the true believer.

«My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire... Second, that all their books — their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible — be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted... Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country... Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name of God within our hearing.

Preparing the way of the Lord is not a passive enterprise, but a peregrination to break through the veil with prayers, praises, and lamentations so that the rays of righteousness may peer over the horizon igniting the....

You might have many meetings where there is little to no formal teaching but a lot of sharing, praising, prayer, worship etc..

«Gathering and dispersing, receiving and giving, praise and work, prayer and struggle - this is the true rhythm of Christian engagement in the world.»

Churches whose members know Psalms as well as any medieval monk, whose hymns and prayers and praise are infused with the cadences of the Psalter.