Prayer

I was four-years-old, and I was with my mom. She taught me the Lord’s Prayer, and after that she told me to repeat these words: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take” (Johnstone). The last part of the prayer is what my family always said which was “bless mommy and daddy, and everyone in the whole wide world. Amen.” Saying these prayers and going to church every Sunday became routine to me. As I got older I…

wasn’t sincere and I lacked compassion but Jesus changed all of that. My heart became softened. It started to be transformed. It didn’t happen all at once for me, it was a process that started with prayer. I turned to God on a daily basis, I began to memorize His Word, petitioning the Lord with prayer, looking for ways to bless God and others. I found my heart being drawn into the heart of Christ. I made Christ feel at home in my heart, after all He is the rightful owner of my heart and it…

The lyrics of Kid Cudi’s song, “The Prayer, contains Transcendentalist ideas. God’s plan for everyone and the abolition of a materialist world is exemplified in this song and supported by Transcendentalist ideas. Kid Cudi believes that God made him special on purpose and he has to pursue want God made him good at when he said “God made me special here on purpose.” Cudi realizes that he is talented and his talent is due to God. Kid Cudi’s lyrics relate to when Emerson said that “God will not have…

unfairly due to prayer. They have been…

In the begging of the scripture Pauls gives Greetings and praise to God for all his many Blessings. This was Paul’s first prayer. The prayer speaks of the salvation being the grace of God .Grace has saved us .we were taken up in Christ, he had taken our place on the cross taken our transgressions .Christ and us are equal shows there is no measure in God’s grace when you have faith. Paul explains salvation is not from your own doing .It is the Gift of God .no works can repay the gifts of…

Question #4 What does prayer mean to me? What is the significance of prayer in my life? What does the Lord's Prayer mean to me? 1. Prayer for me means: Someone is listening. It is a time where it is a quiet and my mind has a connection to God. It could be a gratitude for something good or it could be a request or help for someone in need or for someone that needs healing or even something that I might need. Prayer is when I really pay attention to my life and what…

A Wing and a Prayer Small northern communities are tight knit. It’s not that everybody knows everybody else’s business, but everybody is conscious who has not come back from the trap line come dark, whose boats are out on the lake on a windy day, and what flying conditions are like as they listen for that unmistakable drone of a returning Otter or Beaver. Often people will gather and go out to wistfully search the horizon for comforting signs of their loved ones. Such was the case one heavily…

The War Prayer carries a heavy anti-war message using a cynical tone of religion. The setting of the poem is at height when Imperialism was the strongest. Twain used collective phrases to glorify war and emphasize patriotism. Twain is able to capture this setting by describing a celebration in the streets, “the drums were beat, the bands playing, the top pistols popping, the bunches firecrackers hissing and spluttering”, “flags flashed in the sun” (Perkins, 57). To further capture this image…

upon one which included John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer. I was not raised Methodist, so as much as I was familiar with John Wesley, I found myself unfamiliar with the prayer. Nevertheless, as I read it, I discovered it was honest and forthcoming. John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer seemed to come from a place of vulnerability and security at the same time. It shows a confident trust in God and a keen awareness of our own human frailty. Reading Wesley’s prayer has confirmed to me that I should continue…

Mark Twain, in his juvenalian essay “The War Prayer” (1923) lambasts war and the motivations behind fighting them. He supports his argument by incorporating potent sarcastic diction, utilizing hyperbole, and by the use of hypocrisy. Twain’s purpose is to convey the absurdity of war and to examine what he believes to be the asinine motivations behind going to war, especially those of a religious and patriotic nature, in the hope that future conflict is avoided. He adopts an ironic tone (“An aged…