Prayer

Foster discusses that in prayer people begin to think God’s thoughts after Him, follow His desires, love what He loves, and to will the things He wills (Foster, 1998). Foster discusses real prayer and explains that real prayer does involve a learning process. The first thing Foster points out is that when he was researching prayer in the Bible, Jesus never once mentioned “if it be thy will” when He was praying for others. There…

Angels of Peace Through the life we live, many of us have suffered many trials and temptations. I will save you the details of what was going on in our life at this time, but I will say that this was a very powerful moment in our life. For you see, when you are going through somethings, you feel as though you are all alone. And if you do not reach out to friends and family, you are alone. Many times in our life we do not reach out to others to help us because the issues that we are dealing with…

hit by a car over the weekend. I will do everything in my power to calm and comfort my students. In the case of the student council asking to say a prayer over the loud speaker, I will have to turn them down. I will explain to the students that we are legally not allowed to offer prayer over the loud speaker, as it forces all students to hear the prayer, and could disrupt their work or offend their religious beliefs. I will instead offer the students an alternative. Over the loud speaker I will…

spiritual formation and the implementation of prayer and faith? In order to understand the importance of pastoral counseling, one might need to know what elements are to be included. There are several types of counseling and psychological methods and remedies concerning various issues and conflicts. However, one might conclude to understand that pastoral counseling serves in an arena all by itself. When it comes to pastoral counseling, faith, prayer, and spiritual formation all play very…

confession of faith to the god and the prophet but the shahadah goes beyond just saying a statement but finding a way to show that the faith is true through living your life a muslim ("Don 't Know Much About Islam?"). The second pillar is the prayer Salat. This prayer is done five times a day: At…

Summarizing my own spiritual journey in relation to Hagberg and Guelich (2005) text seems to be a struggle for me. The journey has also include my thoughts, on what it would be like to counsel someone else that is in a different stage of faith than, myself. My faith journey will be divided into four stages. Stage 1: A mother’s love. Born into a lower middle class family, with both my parents, growing up in a very conservative and traditional household, we were all Southern…

can be achieved through practicing these spiritual disciplines resulting in change and transformation. The Spiritual disciplines that most resonated with me were those that Foster describes as the Inward Disciplines. They consist of meditation, prayer, fasting and study. (Foster,pp 13-76). I felt more comfortable with this one because I believed they were practices I have done and am more familiar with. After reading about them; however, I was humbled at actually how very little I actually…

Augustine to name a few, to reiterate the importance of the meeting of the intellectual and the spiritual at the sacred center of the act of preaching. Oden’s view presupposes the earnest and thorough preparation of the speaker, in both study and prayer. I completely agree with Oden’s thought on the matter. Combing through this particular chapter I experienced a sense of excitement and passion. My excitement may possibly stem from the fact that I would like to become the type of preacher of…

attended the Masjid Dural Huda mosque located in Springfield VA, 22310. Masjid Dural Huda is an Islamic religious center/service in which followers of the Muslim religion pray, I attended the service on a Tuesday afternoon during the Asr prayer (afternoon prayer). My religious background and up bringing has been taught and molded with heavy Christian influence. My father is a Greek-Orthodox Christian and my mother was brought up a Protestant Christian, I have been raised with the ideologies of…

In the New Testament, Jesus made a very bold statement to us. In Mark 11:23 Jesus said: (Mar 11:23) For truly I say to you that whoever shall say to this mountain, Be moved and be cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he said shall occur, he shall have whatever he said. This amazing statement still continues to strain our faith to grasp the fullness of what He meant. In June of 1974, a man named Charles Capps was teaching at a faith seminar in…