Sentences with phrase «saying prayer works»

So if you are saying prayer works, you are also saying God is fallible or simply not all - knowing.

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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.

She swears that it really works, but when her prayers don't come true, she says that she didn't pray hard enough.

And say a prayer for me and those who are working for unity and corporate righteousness, sine qua non.

He says that prayer is not really much different than work.

While working, he said he was followed by supervisors and watched when he went to pray in a storage room, and so began to complete his daily prayers outdoors near a trash dumpster.

I do not see any thing bad in those prayers the bible says we should be imitators of Christ that is the work of a christian on earth so don't run from any thing that bring glory to the Lord thanks

If anyone had said to me in 2005 that a decade later I would be saying prayers every night and working at a religious magazine during the day, I would have laughed.

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

It is impossible to estimate what proportion of the people perform the five daily prayers regularly, since women usually say their prayers in the home and men may perform the salat at the mosque, at work, or at home.

Maybe you say morning and evening prayers, but why not squeeze in a quick prayer on your way to work?

At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation of the universe by God, the prayer that follows says: «Almighty ever - living God, who are wonderful in the ordering of all your works, may those you have redeemed understand that there exists nothing more marvellous than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end of the ages, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.»

In his final prayer to the Father, Jesus said, «I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do» (John 17:4).

You see, the point isn't whether it is prayer or not that doesn't work; it's that Jesus said that something you can do can't be done.

It would be better to say that prayer doesn't always work, because it doesn't.

Also, pointing out that prayer works in the bible is about as useful as saying that magic exists because harry potter does it in his books.

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).

Anthony Horan, director of the Office said in a statement: «The celebration of Holy Mass, the summit of Catholic life, is an opportunity to express prayers for the work of our elected representatives and for the common good of society.

It's good it works for you, but are you saying you prayer because of the feeling you get or because of the actual results.

Why do they feel that only certain prayers said in the right way, and with certain actions and in specific rituals actually «work?»

I didn't want to see him, but the Ammas and Abbas that I had spent all my time working on and with whom I had many conversations on prayer kept saying, Look, the goal of the Christian life is love of God and love of

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

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.

Prayer and the sacraments — these, it should really go without saying, were the foundation of St Philip's «youth work».

I've engaged in all that, sat 2 - 3 times a week as you say, and went to the conferences, went to the prayer meetings, gave financially, engaged in all the work they want (because if you don't, you're in sin, or rebellion).

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.

Let's say, for argument's sake, that prayers like this work.

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.

My kids are forced to say «under god» every morning... you can't run for office without spouting god every five minutes... religious people assume you are a believer... at work you can get in trouble if you «admit» you laugh at religion... and even this weeks tragedy has been nothing but offering of pointless «prayers», claims to «gods will» and other religious lunacy...

I pretty much agreed with most of what you have said and i think that the sinners prayer has been misused as a get out of Jail free card.A couple of things that people miss is that God is in charge.As soon as you offer yourself to God and accept Jesus Chris the holy spirit has liberty to work on you.Because he loves us he will discipline us so that we do repent of our sins.The downside of living a walk like that you are a hypocrite until you admit your sinfulness the holy spirit can not help us because of our pride.The second part was you talking about disciplining the flesh personally you cant discipline that which is corrupt our hearts are deceitfully wicked we need new hearts no amount of effort on our part will transform our hearts that is the work of the holy spirit he changes our hearts so that we no longer desire to sin we would rather serve the Lord with all our hearts instead.brentnz

to say that prayer works and it's had effects on a spiritual level and in the realm where it's just as easy to say that instead of prayer and god that changed you, you changed yourself and are giving credit to an unseeable being.

Yet during this time, Cairns says now, he «was still very far from establishing my life as prayer» Not too many years ago, after a rather bitter dispute at work, he started to pray in earnest: «I began an actual «rule» of prayer.

Rev James Mustard, the rector of East Barnet, said: «Patrick's work within the Jewish community, and in wider inter-faith circles, is incredibly enriching for us, as I hope our prayers and support are enriching for him.»

He said: «This is the journey that awaits us in the new phase of the dialogue, devoted to reconciliation: we can not speak of prayer and charity unless together we pray and work for reconciliation and full communion.»

Those that say «prayer and simply giving back to God» doesn't work, hasn't ever tried it in their life.

To the guy who said prayer doesn't work, you lack understanding.

Every time I cross an Israeli check point trying to get to work to put food on the table, I say my prayers because the odds are I will be imprisoned, detained, or harassed.

For the past seven years, the popular press has from time to time published eye - catching progress reports on the work of the Jesus seminar under headlines such as «Most of Jesus» words ghostwritten,» «Jesus probably didn't recite Lord's Prayer, scholars say,» «Is the Bible the gospel truth?»

«Your works», says Baruch, «are to this city a firm pillar and your prayer a strong wall» (II Baruch 1:2).

@Teddy I will say it again: «proof» should be the simplest of things to obtain if God exists and if you truly have a personal relationship with him that uses prayer — assuming prayer works as well... Just ask God to give us the proof that he surely already knows would be acceptable.

Brush your teeth, wash your face, put your PJs on Get in bed, get a help, say a prayer with mom Don't forget, I love you And tomorrow we will do this all again because a mom's work never ends You don't need the reason why Because, because, because, because I said so, I said so, I said so, I said so I'm the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom!!

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.»

I once heard a Marine Corps General say a prayer during his retirement ceremony where he spoke to God's propensity to place His servants in harms way to do His work.

The Church then said that a Christian who had received the sacrament of penance, could by various good works, the saying of particular prayers or doing such pious works as assisting in the building of churches (by a cash payment) achieve release from some part of, sometimes all of, whatever «temporal punishment» he might still be due to undergo after death.

Taylor, who has been documenting his childrens» health journeys on Instagram, said while his kids aren't 100 per cent back to normal but everyone's prayers are working.

It meant I could look up recipes and create my own version like I usually did with everything I cooked, rather than having to say a prayer to the gluten free gods that my baked good would work out, let alone trying to figure out the cost of all the GF flours on our then grad student budgets.

Stop praying man, even the bible says «Faith without works is dead»... sign players that put the fear of jah in your opponents and then your prayers will be answered.

The Pasco Country sheriff's office confirmed the news in a press conference, saying that their «hearts and prayers go out to the family», and that Halladay was a personal friend who «meant a lot to the sheriff's office,» and that they will be working with the family to provide any assistance they can.

He made a couple bad passes, but his work as a central defender ahead of Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini was absolutely stellar, not to mention the slight change of role when Claudio Marchisio replaced an injured Sami Khedira — * author briefly says a prayer to every known deity * — but he was great.