Prayer

I grew up in a home without any religion. When I was younger I always felt as if I had an emptiness inside me, but I could never explain what it was. As I got older I had begun to get comfortable with this emptiness to the point where I actually dismissed this feeling. At the age of seventeen I met my future husband John in 1994. His family was nothing like mine. They were devoted Catholics and went to church every weekend and every religious/saint holiday. As we began to date John asked me if…

and is the first of what I hope will grow into be six retreats offered to church planters next year. Abide is spaced created for church planters to reconnect their hearts with the heart of God through meditation on scripture and prayer. I provided them with a prayer prompt and the space necessary for them to listen to what God may desire to speak to them. Afterwards, we come together to allow them to listen to one another share what their experience was like and what they…

The Impact of Christianity Healings are said to be things of the past and from the Apostles, but I’m proof that’s not true. Many people hold on to Christianity as just a simple belief, they say it does nothing but give people hope. That statement holds me captivated, because I look at my life and see how I’ve been impacted by Christianity. For me, Christianity is not simply hope, but a part of my life! The effects of Christianity, physically and emotionally, have benefited my life. When I was…

really cool to hear his stories about being a teacher, but the thing that really stood out to me about him the most is his relationship with God. He shared with Abbey and I about how each day he sets a time aside to spend at least forty minutes in prayer for his whole family and also for our college. It was definitely encouraging to me to know that there are people out there…

Monasticism was the desire to forsake the world and the ever growing secularization of the church, and it brought a whole new understanding of the practice of prayer. “In the mid-fourth century, Basil drew up a set of monastic rules for regulating the daily life of urban monastic groups. He noted eight daily occasions for prayer: early in the morning, at the third hour, at the sixth, at the ninth, when the day’s work is ended, at nightfall, midnight, and before the dawn.” The monastic…

I learned was the Holy Spirit prayer. The Holy Spirit prayer is a pray that we said in the beginning of each class. As a Pentecostal I was taught that repeating a prayer was less effective than praying to God directly the ability to pray through the bible. I learned that this prayer means a lot. The Holy Spirit prayer ask the Holy Spirit to joins us in the class. This prayer gives us a chance to pray with the Holy Spirit as our instructor. I enjoyed the opening prayer, because it showed the…

A knowledge gap exists in the area of utilizing prayer with patients as a nursing intervention to promote healing. I was only able to find one article that specifically focused on praying with patients as a nursing intervention in the clinical setting (Johnson et al., 2009). From this one study of ten women with recurring ovarian cancer, healing effects of prayer via nursing intervention was reported. In fact, most participants identified prayer as beneficial in promotion of emotional…

Observation: The student body section of the football game was most noticeable on the Heritage side and all the students seemed to be in one homogenous clump, with the exception of one or two separated groups and individuals. However, upon closer glance, the glaringly obvious racial divide clearly split the group of students down a chasm of social segregation. The divide appeared to be general accepted and almost unnoticed by the students, nothing beyond the ordinary, and the behaviors…

With nothing left to lose, the veterans make a point to try and repeat The Lord’s Prayer. However, their prayer is incomplete as it comes out as more of a stammer: “For Thine is / Life is / For Thine is the” (94-96). Eliot applies a liturgical stutter in his poem to maintain the idea behind a faithless society. The Lord’s Prayer is not only well-known within the church but it also is one of the first objectives a church goer learns while becoming a member…

Luke 11:1-13 demonstrates the disciple’s desire to become more like the one they are following, Jesus, through their prayer life. As his close followers, they have the ability and insight to understand that prayer is the most crucial aspect of Jesus’ rule and reign here on earth, more so than his ability to perform miracles or speak eloquently in parables. The disciples ask for guidance in what they deem the most important feature of life, be it theirs or Jesus’. As Jesus provides them with the…