Sentences with phrase «with daily prayer»

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I had a professor in college who prayed for a particular person each time he turned on a light switch, and I love that idea of partnering normal, daily actions with intentional prayer.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

The young people who worked for him at the magazine lived with him in a townhouse on East 19th Street, where we had daily evening prayer and Saturday dinner together.

«He chooses to stay faithful in daily habits of study and prayer and consistent times of interchange with spiritual leaders.»

He discovered that most prayer - books were difficult to use, and so wrote a one - volume daily prayerbook for his own use and was gradually persuaded to share it with others.

Retreatants arrive on a Sunday afternoon, listen to three conferences a day from the retreat conductor, pray Morning and Evening Prayer and the Holy Rosary daily, and of course attend a daily Mass... On Thursday night there is usually the chance to spend an hour or two keeping vigil with the Blessed Sacrament exposed...

In our daily prayer and struggle for holiness we grow in friendship with him, and the more we «concede» to his will in love, the more strength and solace we shall receive.

In our daily prayer for ourselves and for our people, let us repeat the words of Gregory and grow in hunger for this perfect union with God:

Moreover, if the Constitution on the Liturgy emphasizes that we ought to «pray without ceasing», this can hardly apply only to liturgical prayer, especially in the case of the laity, who would not have sufficient time for this; and so it may be concluded that in our daily life private and liturgical prayer need certainly not compete with each other.

If they choose, the members of my congregation receive a daily e-mail from the church that includes a short devotional with a prayer.

I've known some of the most depressed Christians who are always repeating little happy prayers to try and get themselves out of funks, in fact some suround themselves with those possitive message posters because they need daily reminders to keep positive because they find so little else to be happy about.

More often than we're comfortable admitting, I think, we find ourselves feeling what many recent theologians say we should: a twinge of uneasiness at speaking of heaven outside of church; the sense that Jesus» death and resurrection can't quite be brought to bear on our daily routine, our social life, our moneymaking, our recreation; an inability to see with the heart the goodness of the Good News; a certain emptiness in our prayers.

The very nature of what it means to be alive is one that is rife with existential strife and tension that necessitates daily prayer.

If we are not compelled in every prayer to ask for daily bread, why must every prayer begin with «Our Father»?

It wasn't until after college that I finally realized what I was missing was a rhythm of daily prayer, something with a set structure.

The prayer in Q itself, prior to Matthew's gloss, had interpreted the first petition, «Thy kingdom come,» as having to do with God's providing food, in what had been the immediately following petition, «Give us this day our daily bread!»

Let me conclude this post, but follow up with some formulaic stuff, like evening prayers, that deal with daily forgiveness.

This is a cheerful, readable book which aims to encourage ordinary Catholic women with busy lives, with homes to run and children to raise, with responsibilities and with jobs and worries, to live in the presence of God and to make prayer part of their daily lives.

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.

It's a book that would be useful to share and discuss in a Catholic young mums group, especially for those who need a good general introduction to the idea of daily prayer and friendship with Christ.

In addition to spending a lot of time in Isaiah and the Gospels, for my own reading in the mornings, I've always turned to Luci Shaw's book for Advent and Christmas poetry called Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation or her co-written devotional with Madeleine L'Engle called Wintersong: Christmas Readings along with my daily time with Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.

Anjezë treasured her little spring and drew sustenance each day with prayers, daily worship and secret acts of devotion.

• Meetings: Informal meetings occurred almost daily; there was also a set - up meeting on Monday; and a regular Oxford Group meeting on Wednesday, with prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p.prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p.Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p. 140).

My husband and I have weathered the last three very rough years with the Treasury of Daily Prayer from CPH.

Historians realize that this was a tactic to cool tempers at a time when the deliberations were deadlocked, but the evangelical barrister states that Franklin's resolution calling for prayers each morning before proceeding with the day's business in Congress passed, and that the practice of having prayer before the daily sessions of the U.S. Congress continues to this day.

And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.

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.

Dodd was a long supporter of the Book of Common prayer, the Anglican book with daily gospel readings and prayers, describing it when he was 89 as «a wonderful piece of literature, beautifully - written and based on fact.»

I have supper dishes to clean up, prayers to pray, tears to cry, holy daily work to do, joy comes in the morning hand in hand with whatever may come.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

The emperor, after searching inquiries about the religion of Muhammad, gave general approval to the new religion — which he considered to be compatible with the teachings of Confucius — but he felt that five daily prayers and a month of fasting were requirements too severe for his taste, and he was not converted.

Using a four - part measurement of religious observance for Christians — weekly church attendance, daily prayer, saying religion is important and believing in God with «absolute certainty» — Pew found that 70 percent of Christian college grads were highly committed to their religion.

Let him bring to his words the witness of his own struggle with the Scriptures, his own contention with God in prayer, his own vulnerable love for his people, his own «daily pressure... of... anxiety for all the churches.»

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.

When we take this approach with your walk with God, I guarantee we will all be more intentional about spending time daily with Him in prayer and scripture to make sure we have the armor God that we may be able stand against the wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6:11).

The man of prayer, with his daily discipline, is equally explicit and deliberate.

Notice, then, that in the prayer Jesus taught the order of things is this: first, identification with God, his will, his kingdom of sovereign love; next, asking for daily bread or what is needed to make life possible; then, deliverance from evil and from the test that will be too much for us; and all of it, as Matthew's gospel recognizes when it adds the doxology to the simpler Lukan version, to God's glory — so that the divine will may be done, and be seen done, «in earth as in heaven.»

They do not recognize the relation of prayer to the exigencies of daily life with its duties and responsibilities.

Through its internal life of eucharistic worship, thanksgiving, intercessory prayer, through planning for mission and evangelism, through a daily lifestyle of solidarity with the poor, through advocacy even to confrontation with the powers that oppress human beings, the churches are trying to fulfil this evangelistic vocation.

The person doesn't walk away — despite hard work, despite prayers for a miracle and bargaining with God, despite making vast improvements in learning daily living skills from a wheelchair, and even despite, at times, some measurable return of arm and hand function.

This may move Christian worship beyond the preoccupation with Scriptural texts and literary forms of prayer to a concern with the spontaneous religious life of its daily practitioners.

As Followill explains, they're still involved with charitable causes and their daily life consists of prayer and the occasional jaunt to church — at least for mom's sake.

Friars were leaving the Augustinians almost daily, and within a few months it was impossible to continue with the common recitation of the Office, the readings at meals, or any semblance of regular community life — the life which had formed Luther, given him his love of psalm and plain chant, scripture and prayer, of theology and preaching.

Daily pray the morning prayer and remember your baptism where you got metaphysically connected with the releasing power of Jesus death and resurrection.

So, although he would do certain things by rule - of - thumb experience — plough after sowing, protect the field from birds or wandering animals, etc. — for the most part after sowing he went his daily round with his prayers said, his fingers crossed and a wary eye on the field.

I am trying to find the trust to walk daily with Christ through this, but I can tell you that most people who heard what my prayers sound like right now would question how a believer could say such things to God.

I have a strong and daily relationship with God through prayer, my writing and, hopefully, my actions in the world.

Hey uzuz, I totally agree with you about daily prayers for our kids.

The Islamic holy month, recognized worldwide by Muslims, means a month of spiritual reflection with an increased focused on daily prayer and charity, the council said in a statement.

«Notwithstanding that the president took Nigerians for granted, he was not impeached, but rather Nigerians were offering prayers for his recovery, daily, only for him to return with a language of combat and insult, describing his own citizens as «irresponsible elements!