Prayer

face down on the floor and say their prayers to several deities silently. When the service began, the priest invited me into a small sanctuary, roped off on each side, forming a clear path to the deity Sri Venkateswara. The priest began the service by walking up to each person carrying a tray with four cups, the cups had kumkuma, haldi, milk, and water in them. He approached each Hindu person and seemed to ask them questions, I assume he asked them their prayer requests, they would respond…

for God and seen only by God. At the commencement of Bible College I understood fasting to be a practice that people in the church did in order to get God to hear their prayers and move on their behalf and answer the prayers that they had placed before Him during the time of fasting. It was like a way to get your prayers answered in an accelerated way. Mother Teresa would be a person in history who I class as someone who significantly contributed to the discipline of fasting. If…

awesome because then I can really have a more personal relationship with a group of students that I can talk to about God and help them through problems that they’re dealing with. The spiritual needs I believe are and were being met throughout the internship with each and every moment, when dealing with the message, life groups, and other spiritual building areas within the youth ministry. I really enjoy the way that the youth ministry that I was interning for ran each and every service. I…

is where I really saw a difference in culture. As the pastor lead a prayer from the stage, a majority of the people in the room began standing up and crying out to God in their own words where they were sitting in the congregation. Now growing up in a United Methodist Church background, and marrying a Southern Baptist I knew this was not common for either of those particular denominations. So for this style of worship in prayer, had to be somewhat tied to the Korean culture and traditions. It…

as broken as anyone, succumbing to even the silliest of temptations and distractions. Presently, eight of my primary spiritual disciplines are – beginning with the usual suspects – prayer, the Holy Scriptures, fasting, silence and solitude, stewardship, worship and thanksgiving, learning, and serving. First, with prayer, I practice this daily. Usually, I strive to make this the very first thing I do upon waking, along with reading the Bible. Likewise, I use…

source of life. Summarise your original understanding of the discipline before the course started My understanding of fasting was to give up a necessity, such as food, in order to remind myself to pray and hunger after God. Whether for an answer to a prayer, new vision, understanding or even just desiring to be closer to God. I had the mindset that fasting was mainly a tool to use in times of need. I saw it as more of a corporate activity than a personal one. A Significant Christian…

“Many of us have a vague idea that there should be something different about our leadership as Christians- particularly if we are leading a church or organization with a spiritual purpose- but that difference usually gets reduced to a perfunctory prayer at the beginning of a meeting,…

Attending deaf events as a hearing person might be seen as scary or intimidating. Due to the lack of knowledge of the typical hearings person's perspective of the deaf community. I personally did not know what to expect when attending deaf church. I honestly thought it might be a little boring go sit in a room and watch other people sign. But I shortly learn after attending my first event that I was wrong there's much more to the culture of the deaf community. I feared that I would be perceived…

Sometimes, life falls apart. In these moments the options seem limited. Do you run away, do you stay and push through the problem, do you go on a spiritual journey? There are endless options to consider, but in a moment where life seems to be engulfing you, the only clear option is to follow your gut. In the book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, that is exactly what she did when her marriage fell apart and life trapped her on her bathroom floor. Her gut told her to embark on a spiritual…

spare time we have in our day to say a quick prayer. We talked about how practicing different religions takes a lot of hard work and dedication. I agree with that. It takes a lot of dedication to get up in the morning and pray or go to church. There are a lot of people that have a lot going on in their lives and still manage to include religion in it. Being honest with yourself, God, and others is a huge part of practicing religion. I heard that prayer is there whenever you need it. God is…