Sentences with phrase «with opening prayers»

The meeting started with opening prayers by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Bello; and the Minister of State for Health, Osagie Ehanire.

As Sir Ken's casket was carried inside the cathedral hundreds of mourners gathered under a big screen outside to watch as the service began, with opening prayers led by Canon Myles Davies, acting Dean of Liverpool.

Cleanse your sacred area with an opening prayer or mantra, a sage smudging, and / or by burning some incense.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers voted down a motion to consider the ban during a session that opened with a prayer for the 17 people killed by a former student last Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The author's profile reached a new peak in 2012 when he gave the opening address at the National Prayer Breakfast with President Obama seated next to him.

The government's display of the creche in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»

I doubt that many feast - table prayers tomorrow will open with words of gratitude for iPads or Android phones.

The problem is, most of us ignore all that and approach prophetic texts simply with an open heart and prayer.

So before opening the bible say a prayer for understanding, also what I do is read two translations at the same time to «study», I read New Living Translation, and I back it up with King James Version... so try that!

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In a world where power has become almost synonymous with violence and greed, the power of prayer is one of the church's best - kept open secrets.

You know that such a prayer will be answered, because there has already been a previous answering, a previous epiphany, a previous moment where the ground opened up and you knew you were in touch with infinite mystery and you knew you were yourself infinite mystery.

good kid, m.A.A.d. city even opens with this prayer:

James You think that people are opening these meetings with prayer as an «insidious method of identifying those who believe differently than the one leading the prayer» I hope you are wrong.

However, what many are expressing is concern that opening with a sectarian prayer is an insidious method of identifying those who believe differently than the one leading the prayer, which could lead to the persecution to which you refer.

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

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

With others the problem goes deeper, and stems from a latent or open skepticism as to whether prayer accomplishes anything.

Most people open their prayers with «Dear God» and «Heavenly Father» which seem to be pretty standard.

I've been staying open with God in my prayer and scripture reading and other habits designed to keep me growing closer to Jesus.

«Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first - rate accent.

Having no model at all to meet the upkeep on and no known shape to whip themselves into, they would for the first time be open to looking for really new answers — honest answers — that could range anywhere from «We haven't the foggiest notion, but let's get together next Sunday and see if anything's occurred to us in the meantime,» to «We're here to be the church, I suppose — whatever that means,» to «How about for openers we just try to stick with fellowship, breaking bread, and saying prayers?

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a New York town board's tradition of opening monthly meetings with prayer is unconstitutional because the town should have tried harder to find non-Christian speakers — even if that required recruiting beyond the town's borders.

Pastor Gadiel Ríos encouraged members to open their homes for prayer and worship with their neighbors; some in his congregation of 350 have lost everything.

Which prayer do you suggest we open our school days with?

Meetings are opened and closed with prayer, but these relatively few minutes seem a paltry offering compared to the hours sacrificed on the altar of institutional needs.

If they truly believed in it, you'd never see anything like opening prayers at the GOP convention (I assume the Democrats will do the same, so this isn't a knock against the right specifically), and you wouldn't have presidents and candidates kowtowing to «evangelical leaders» all the time, which to me is no different than a president or candidate consulting with the Pope, the only difference being the evangelical leaders are Americans.

So it's not politically correct to open this convention up with a prayer of any faith.

The convention opens with a prayer from a Hispanic evangelical leader and closes with a benediction from a Catholic cleric who's sometimes called «America's pope.»

Why is it that they can open up convention with a prayer, but you can't open up a high school graduation with one.

A Baptist preacher giving thanks to God for a «smokin» hot wife» in a prayer that opened a NASCAR race last weekend has generated reams of online commentary, with one religion blogger summing up some Christian reaction: «Shocking, I tell you, that a pastor might have a little fun.»

whenever they land a big account, or open up all their board meetings with prayer.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

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.

Within a few months, following a financial crisis in New York, 10,000 people were gathering for lunchtime prayer meetings, with many churches opening their doors for prayer.

More and more these days, my prayers are a resting with open hands, I receive these hours ahead as a gift, I receive what you have to give me, I am open, let's sit down together here in the quiet.

Before taking batting practice with the Washington Nationals and delivering the opening prayer in Congress, Osteen sat down for a freewheeling interview with us.

When we view prayer as a conversation with a God who is always present, it opens up a whole new realm of freedom in prayer.

Seek Him with an honest and open heart, via the Holy Scriptures and prayer, and you will find Him.

If they were all Christians, and decided to open the session with a Christian prayer, what kind of impression do you think it would have made if I either failed to say «amen» at the end, or worse yet, walked out?

The opening words of the film are from Isaiah 40: «The Lord is the everlasting God...» and it closes with the real - life Doss talking about prayer.

Since the founding of the nation, it has been customary for both national and state legislatures to open their sessions with prayer, and the oaths taken in court and by judges end with the words, «So help me God.»

Just like the prayers of Jesus and the prayers of Paul, praying the Psalms helps us see that prayer is an ongoing and open conversation with God.

Anyone who supports the qov» t opening functions with Christian prayer needs to ask themselves if they would feel the same way when a local qov» t starts opening sessions with praises to Allah and how comfortable as a CHristian would you feel bringing issues to such a proceeding.

Congress opens with prayer.

Prayer is the intentional opening of human lives to, the alignment of human wills with, and the direction of human desiring toward, the cosmic Love that is deepest and highest in the world because it is the main thrust or drive through the world toward sharing and participation in genuine good — and hence toward the truest possible fulfillment of human personality as God wishes it to become.

Public prayer or church worship is the way in which we unite with others in expressing dependence on this Love, opening ourselves to it, and willing cooperation with it as «fellow - workers with God.»

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.

That clause has a long history of interpretation that I shall not review here, but it certainly does not mean and has never meant the American state has no interest in or concern for religion, or churches either, for that matter, and it certainly does not me and politics have nothing to do with each other.8 To the extent the «wall of separation» image leads to those conclusions it distorts the entire history of the American understanding of religion and leads to such absurd conclusions as that religious congregations should have no tax exemption and legislative bodies should not be opened with prayer.

Prayer changes things Prayer with God is heaven on earth Jesus has opened paradise Heaven is available to all mankind Jesus has set us free to talk boldly with God Not in our perfection But in His, Thank You Jesus Prayer changes things