Sentences with phrase «thing about prayer»

But the best thing about prayer is that it brings us close to God.

But the best thing about prayer is that it brings us close to God.

The odd thing about prayer — it doesn't seem to matter which god / goddess you pray to.

Our problems don't go away unless we get help from other humans or take action for ourselves... there's no God in the sky that does a dam thing about our prayers.

One of the great things about prayer is the invitation and how scary it is to know God.

Not exact matches

The latter happens when salespeople repeat the same things to every potential customer and continue to loudly extol why they've come up with an answer to a prospect's prayers even when that customer seems underwhelmed about the product's usefulness.

Now, to be fair, they'll pretty much leave you alone as long as you don't «stir things up» like complaining about school prayer, especially at the HS football game.

Actually Jesus you're wrong about what Atheism said, prayer changes things by not doing anything and allowing the natural (disastrous) course of events to transpire.

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

Of course, there are things we need to learn about family and God that does come from the scriptures and church and prayer and revelation.

Prayer should not be all about receiving things and good things happening, it should also be about connecting to «the higher power» on a spiritual level and providing sustenance for your soul.

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.

And, when she describes that change, what she ends up describing is what already more - or-less exists, namely: mainline christianity, embracing the reformed and the catholic, the scientific and the traditional, which has been doing (never perfectly, to be sure) the sort of deep thinking, social justice, and disciplined prayer that she talks about continually while the evangelicals were breaking off to do their own thing (the thing she seems to want them to stop doing) throughout the twentieth century.

And because belief is an evolving, changing, living thing (or should be), you would have to poll the class at the beginning of ever single class to find out if the prayer you are about to offer is objectionable.

If there is one thing we learn from the Lord's prayer in Luke 11:1, it is that the best ways to think about prayer is to view it as simply having a conversation with God.

In fact prayer is not first and foremost about asking for things.

For many people the hardest thing about learning to pray is finding time, space, privacy, quiet and energy for prayer.

My prayer is, «Lord, don't let me believe the same thing about you tomorrow that I do today.»

The purpose of prayer is to tell God about all the things that He's apparently unaware of in the world.

I could say a few things about saying «the Lord's» prayer or singing the doxology.

«In unity» implies that our focus in prayer is on God Himself, His will, and not on ourselves, our problems or even the thing we are praying about.

Some things about the occasions and social settings of prayer were said in the previous chapter.

The thing about social media is that it captures our first reactions — before reflection, before conversation, before prayer, before second - thoughts.

«If there is one thing I've learned about loving people in the last five years, it's that nobody wants to be featured as a prayer point in your newsletter.

I hope it can work for me since I don't want to live another year like that even I have prayed for three years about this problem with all the prayer knowledge I have in the past.Although there are still many things I don't understand about my situation, I will keep on trusting my Lord that he will make everything works out for good.If anyone can see my reply, please pray to Jesus and ask Him to has more mercy on me.

Sure — the sorcerers that call themselves «pharmaceutical bio-chemists» drone on and on about meaningless, nonsensical things like «monoclonal antibodies» but we all know that prayer is what healed him.

(I did meet his wife though, after about 20 years — she was wonderful) I was in all the prayer / intercession groups (I was called to prayer and a few other things) and several times one of the other pray - ers sort of intimated that ours was «The» church of the city, and I'd always then start praying for every God called church in my city.

The first thing to say about this is that the Lord's Prayer isn't exactly the most offensive thing to be found in scripture.

Prayer is only a conversation which we have with ourselves and all that it can do, for most of us, is reinforce the many stupid things we believe about ourselves and «others».

I am writing a post about this for tomorrow, when I start to focus on the positive things Scripture says about prayer.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

We think that Christianity is about being «happy, happy, happy all the time,» seeing God miraculously answer all our prayers, and have all of our Christian friends surround us with financial and emotional support every time the least little thing goes wrong.

Along with the Fishing Prayer, another thing I learned about at the Fishing Training Conference was the importance of writing up a document called the «Strategic Help In Training People to Love Angling Now» (SHITPLAN for short).

It certainly is good to have finally found out that Christianity is nothing more than just tradition, ritual and culture and that all the things which the Bible says about God and prayer are not true — God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct anyone or put thoughts in anyone's mind or show them signs or speak to their heart or mind or tells them what to do or calls people or chooses people or has a plan for people's lives whether they are in an altered state of consciousness / transcendent state or whether they are in an unaltered cognitive state.

If we are praying to get some thing or some result for ourselves or others, then absolutely be prepared for disappointment, but when prayer is just an ongoing conversation with the compassionate, understanding deity bubbling out of a growing relationship with the said deity then you don't give a shit about the results because they are no longer the point.

Bonhoeffer's diary records two different episodes during this brief period: «I do not understand why I am here... The short prayer in which we thought of our German brothers almost overwhelmed me... If things become more uncertain, I shall not stay in America...» Later, after his decision to return home, he wrote, «Since I came on board ship, my mental turmoil about the future has gone.

I'm sorry «Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things», but your assertions about prayer and atheism are unfounded.

I know of a beautiful young woman who was part of a prayer room who was asked to leave by the governing body because she complained the three middle - aged men on the prayer team were saying highly inappropriate things about her body, and the men's wives suggested she should leave for everyone's sake!

Since God sees everything, prayer can't be to tell God things he doesn't know about,...

Johny Johny, yes Papa... Now dear Johny, Santa will be very pleased that you have learnt this nursery rhyme so well (Prayer really changes things) But since Christmas is far, how about learning something new as well?

While there are many good things that happen in prayer meetings, it is also where we sometimes pick up some bad habits about prayer.

I'm talking about prayers for trivial things like...

The preacher is right everyone should be who they are... but then again the Bible does state that it is an abomination to God... But get this... before God can judge you Jesus has to judge you... the BIble says NO MAN COME TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME... we have no room to judge others or talk about them because no sin is big or small they are all the same... the only big sin is not being saved and believing in God... if we are saved and if we believe we have nothing to worry about... but again we have no room to say who is right and who is wrong because it's not our place all that we can do is pray and prayer can change things...

Prayer is communicating with God about many things: love and admiration of God and acknowledging that He IS God; confession of one's sins with the honest intent to try and turn away from those wrongful acts; asking for God's daily care; asking for God's intervention in our lives and those of our loved ones, in a manner consistent with God's will — and just unloading on Him.

«The amazing thing about praying in that environment was you could pretty much guarantee God would answer those prayers,» Maslen recalls.

If the Emperor's troops came and turned things round again: «You will have to help burn all the German books, New Testaments, psalters, prayer books, hymnals, and to keep everyone ignorant about the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed... baptism, the sacrament, faith, government, matrimony, or the Gprayer books, hymnals, and to keep everyone ignorant about the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed... baptism, the sacrament, faith, government, matrimony, or the GPrayer, and the Creed... baptism, the sacrament, faith, government, matrimony, or the Gospel.

«My song was not about you, your financial status, the genuineness of your faith, your mother's prayers for you or the good things that Paula White Ministries does.

By looking at these short descriptions of Paul's prayers, we can learn a few things about how to pray like Paul.

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

You lie aboout prayer, you lie about having proven things, you lie about atheists, you call on person here a Nazi racist because she posted Hitler's quotes on his religious beliefs in a conversation about what Hitler believed, it just goes on and on.