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Prayer Requests And The Use Of Online Ministries
Users on January 17, 2010 in Children’s Prayers, Daily Prayers, Family Prayers, Healing Prayers, Toll-Free Prayer Lines, Uncategorized | No Comments »Prayer Requests And The Use Of Online Ministries
If you have heard about some of the online ministries that offer prayer requests and want to see more of what they are about, you can go online and find out how you can learn more about prayer requests and how to find the answers to personal healing that you are looking for. A lot of people have started going online to use online ministries to deepen their spiritual beliefs, and to use prayer requests to get the healing and answers that they are looking for.
There are a number of different ways that you can use the online ministries to read other people’s prayer requests, and to have your own prayer requests. When you are ready to see more of what the online ministries are about, you can go to PrayersRequests.com and find out how you can get started with your own prayer requests online. Many people feel a strong devotion to go online and read the prayer requests of others, and to have their own prayer requests. There is a community online of people who have deep spiritual beliefs that can use the web site to connect with others.
If you have been looking for online ministries to help you with your prayer requests and healing, you can go online and learn more about the web site and about online ministries. A lot of people find the healing that they are looking for when they are able to go online and see prayer requests. Whatever you want to use prayer requests to do, you can use the online ministries to help you. Being able to connect with others online who have the same beliefs as you do is a great way to strengthen your relationships with your own beliefs and with others.
If you have been trying to find a web site that will help you learn more about online ministries and where you can learn more about prayer requests, you can go online to the web site and find out how you can join and get started. People have a lot of different reasons that they use the online ministries to get the answers that they are looking for, and to learn more about how prayer requests can work for them. If you have been searching for an online community to share your prayers requests with, and want to join a spiritual community, you can go online to the web site and find out how you can get started. It is a great way to connect to others who are looking for prayer requests and to share your own prayer requests with others who are a part of the online community.
Do you believe that prayer has the power to heal? More importantly do you want to believe in the power of prayer to heal? If you answered yes to either of the above questions you are already on your way to understanding the power of healing prayer. The first step to being healed by prayer or offering prayers that will help to heal a loved one is to believe in your prayer. This article will outline the definition of healing prayer, whether or not you can be healed by prayer and how to pray for healing.
What is Healing Prayer?
Healing prayer is prayer that is offered up for the purpose of seeking healing of either a physical or emotional nature. It is believe that through prayer physical and emotional pain can be eliminated. Healing prayer may include prayer spoken aloud, prayer held within the heart or visits to religious shrines or other places of worship.
Healing prayer does not involve monetary donations. Although offering contributions to houses of worship is certainly worthwhile there is no amount of money that can guarantee a cure to a physical or emotional pain. Some unscrupulous individuals may offer stories of healing and divine intervention and offer you the opportunity for healing for a fee. These individuals should be avoided. True healing prayer is pure and heartfelt.
Can You Be Healed By Prayer?
Although scientific evidence may not be overly supportive of healing prayer, Christians know the answer to this question. They know that prayer does have the power to heal when the prayer is offered with sincerity, humility and compassion. The form of healing that you or the recipient of your prayer receives may come in a variety of different levels. The healing may be a full curing of the medical or physical ailment or it may come in the form of easing the pain and bringing peace to the patient before they pass.
Healing prayer should be used in conjunction with standard medical treatments for the physical ailment. Undergoing medical treatments is not a lack of faith but rather a determination to be healed. For example it may be God’s plan that you are to be healed through a new form of treatment that could help many others who do not share your faith and spirituality.
How Do You Pray for Healing?
There is no simple formula for healing prayer. Although some would like to believe that there are special prayers that guarantee healing but, unfortunately, this is not the case. The words of a healing prayer pale in comparison to the emotion and passion behind the words. The simplest prayer can often be the most powerful because it invokes the most heartfelt emotion of the individual offering the prayer. Whether you are praying for your own healing, for the healing of a loved one or the healing of a stranger it is important that as you pray, you know in your heart that God has the power to heal and He will answer your prayer according to His plan. It has been said many times that no prayer goes unanswered but the answer to these prayers isn’t always, “Yes.”
Times, Technology, Terror, Tears and Truth – Thanks, Praise, and Prayer
Users on January 15, 2010 in Family Prayers | No Comments »One of the things we all have in common is that sometime in our lives we all experience times, technology, terror, tears and truth. We experience what the times do to us – times of exultant joy, times of deep grief, times of unbelievable passion, times of unbearable loss, times of quiet calm, times of heartrending sadness, times of undying love and times no one can comprehend.
Technology has become pervasive in our lives. The need of technology to send an email to a friend, technology to answer a call waiting from an important client, technology to print a picture of a loved one, technology to climb the last mile on the treadmill hill, technology to play that special song on our IPod, technology to cook dinner in our microwave.
We face terror on international and in some cases personal levels. Terror that 9/11 may happen again , terror that a loved one will be called to military duty, terror that cancer may take a friend, terror that my child be lost, terror that my business fails.
We all experience tears far too often. Tears of deep physical pain, tears of depression, tears of loss of a friend, tears of a career failure, tears of want, tears of need.
We need to know the truth about our lives and how to go on. Where do we find such truth?
In prayer!
But, you say, I don’t know how to pray. It’s understandable. It’s not your fault. Very few people ever teach us how to pray or how to deepen our praying. Even the disciples said to Jesus, “Teach us to pray.” Jesus then described perfect prayer to the disciples when he said, “pray this way.” Base your prayer- life on the time-tested beliefs and practices of giving God our thanks, giving God our praise, and praying the prayer Jesus gave to all of us – the Lord’s Prayer.
Start by giving God your thanks for life-giving energy to face each new day, thanks for strength to meet the challenges of being a parent, thanks for a sunny day, thanks for the sound of a child’s laughter, thanks for a warm home, thanks for health.
Continue by giving God your praise by reaching out to someone in need of a kind word, praise by sharing your talents with your church family, praise by lending a helping hand to a neighbor, praise by spending time with your spouse.
Conclude by praying the prayer Jesus taught his disciples, “Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed by Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive our trespasses and forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, the power, the glory forever. Amen.”
Times, technology, terror, tears, and truth – thanks, praise and The Lord’s Prayer – start watching God move Heaven and earth with your eyes closed.
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Mike Evans, an author of several bestselling books launch The Jerusalem Prayer Team to commemorate with Corrie Ten Boom in Holland.Enlisting one million people in America is the top priority of The Jerusalem Prayer Team as well as churches to pray daily for the peace of Jerusalem. The campaign expects to create a bridge of love among Christians to pray for the Jewish people in Israel.Pat Boone, Pat Robertson, Tim LaHaye, John Maxwell, Tommy Tenney and others support the prayer campaign.Evans said that these Christians will be praying for the Jewish people as they are in the midst of terror, similar to what America had experienced last September 11.Praying for the Jewish people as well as the Jerusalem is a Biblical mandate that no prophet, priest, King that didn’t pray for both. He said that you can’t love Jesus without loving the Jewish people.The Jerusalem Prayer Team appeared because of Corrie ten Boom’s legacy. Nazi soldiers caught Corrie Ten Boom doing weekly prayer meeting for the Jewish people in 1844. Ten Boom family’s lives were in danger for 100 years pursuing on what they believe is right. They continue living out their Christian faith in every aspects of their lives. Because of this, around 800 Jewish people were saved from the Nazis.Ten Boom sisters Corrie and Betsie were imprisoned and life there was unbearable. Yet they continue to spread Jesus’ love among the prisoners until Betsie died. Corrie also believed that her life was a gift from God. She continues spreading about Jesus by her worldwide ministry to 60 countries. A movie “The Hiding Place” was based on her life story.Evans pointed that The Jerusalem Prayer Team brings back Corrie to life. During such difficult times, what the church can do was to unify in prayer. Evans meet with several leaders for the prayer effort. Corrie’s desire is to give love and refuge to the Jewish people as what God says from the scripture. The Jewish people only knew all the bad things that some Christians did and not those acts by more Ten Booms all over the world.
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Faith, Prayer And Toil: The Ultimate Process To Deal With A Difficult Situation
Users on January 14, 2010 in Children’s Prayers | No Comments »Art & Entertainment
June 2, 2008
I was a former Consular Investigator of the U.S. Embassy in Manila who worked with the Anti-Fraud Unit for more than a decade, until such time that I met an awful vehicular accident that resulted to my separation from the service. The mishap happened when I and my driver-colleague, Homer, were traveling back home to Manila after completing our background investigations in the far away province of Camarines Norte in Bicol region. While running in a moderate speed along the winding road of Maharlika Hi-way within the vicinity of Barangay Tigbinan, the vehicle suddenly went out of control and skidded right down the approximately 50 to 60-foot deep ravine. I was not sure whether I was scared in the face of my imminent death, but I supposed it was just a shocking reaction that I did nothing but to shut my eyes in terror, tensed all my muscles in anticipation of my broken cadaver, and for a split second, flashed back the memory of my good old days with my beloved family, while the vehicle was rapidly flying into the air and down the bed of the narrow valley.
Thank God I was alive!… I mean, my driver and I were both alive, with only simple bruises and no broken bones. Perhaps it’s because of the safety belts we wore at that time, and perhaps because the narrow valley bed to where the vehicle tripped up right-side down, was soft enough to bear the impact of the crash.
But that was a mere continuation of our misfortune. The embassy charged us of several violations in connection with that accident; one of which was the so-called “reckless driving resulting to damage to vehicle” (“U.S. Embassy Handbook for Filipino Employees” 17). This was done so despite the fact that I was not the one driving the vehicle. The grievance committee panel argued that I ranked senior in the trip and therefore, responsible for maintenance and protection of the official car. Despite my two Meritorious Honor Awards, several official recognitions for my loyalty to the interest of the diplomatic mission, and Public Attorney’s supported appeal for reconsideration, I finally found myself being terminated from the service for cause (“Notice of Termination” 1992).
Probably I could have done wrong somehow, but my spirit denied acceptance of any guilt. All I knew was that I enjoyed working with the embassy, with beautiful people around me and all those challenging assignments that I love so much, that’s why I did my job very well, and I did it with all my heart, my life and my soul, for my own glory and for the interest of the service. But such redundant car accident totally erased my dreams, suddenly refrained myself to keep on going, and most of all, severely affecting the future of my children. Homer, my colleague, probably in total desperation, got sick and subsequently met his untimely death. But I was still fighting back. I’ve always wanted to keep alive. I didn’t want to be completely discouraged by this emotional trial and finally say farewell to the world in such a younger age of 40’s, while leaving my bereaved family in future uncertainty. If we succumb to poverty, so be it! We shall be joined together in good times and bad times.
And bad times did occur. Our imminent economic shortage was compounded by ailment of my two younger kids. Still fresh from being separated from the service, my two-year-old child, Maybel, and my eight-year-old son, Bimbo, suffered serious Dengue fever and both were rushed to the nearby hospital at the wee hour of the night. The kids suffered a lot of pain. Each had a plastic small pipe inserted into their noses so as to flow out rotten dirt that looked like black decomposing human particles coming from their stomach – aside from several hoses of dextrose injected into different part of their skin. The worst, the kids were not allowed to take any food or liquid and this punishment went on for several days. Maybel whom I loved the most, was despondently wondering over my refusal to give her something to eat despite her repeated clamor for food.
My heart was melting! It was the most challenging moment in my life. Both kids were in 50-50 condition and I was not so sure whether I could bear acceptance that they might finally be leaving us for good.
In my state of hopelessness, I appealed to the Lord harder and ever and without let-up, to spare my kids from the toil of death and to send them hasty recovery instead. Then I suddenly felt a strange spirit that crept into mine, more burning than the spirit of brandy that I consumed awhile ago to reinforce my emotional strength. It was a splendid feeling I’ve never felt before. And as I rushed back to the hospital, I found my children in peaceful condition, my wife had refrained from crying, and the doctors and nurses were at their normal faces.
The children were recuperating fast! God did not totally forsake us! He still had a gracious heart for us to be heard of and for us to ask for forgiveness. Amen.
What process could be better than seeking the convivial arms of the Divine Providence at times of trouble and at times when one had sorted to all recourses but they didn’t seem to work at all? Anything beyond the capability of man should be consigned into the custody of the Lord. As Jesus said, “Come to Me all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
The author is presently the Managing Director of a security agency in Metro Manila. As a father of five, he spends his time between freelance writing and security management. He just finished his first five essay articles which were published in Associated Content and Triond, with links at Facebook and other friendly sites. He is currently working on his sixth article.
The Only Way to Start your Day: Morning Prayer
Users on January 12, 2010 in Family Prayers | No Comments »All over the world, most people recognize the importance of a uplifting start in the
morning. The whole day is heavily impacted by how we begin our day in the morning. Starting the day with morning prayer is the only way. Many people who love God dearly don’t make the time to start their day with prayer-so it is an issue that affects all types of religious/spiritual people.
In the midst of all the hustle and bustle, commotion and combustion in our lives-we need more peace and calm to function daily. Our qualities of lives are being stained by the stresses of the world by TV, work, family, and interaction with people. The “little purple pill or blue pill,” can not permanently bring peace, joy and happiness in our lives during these times. Medications provide a temporary illusion to the mind and body that peace is present.
Seeking God in the early morning strengthens your faith and knowing that you serve a loving God who wants you to always have an expected end-no matter what obstacles we face daily. Commencing your day with prayer allows you to get control of the day by expressing to God that you depend on his guidance and protection. God knows we have decisions and plans for the day- he alone knows the future and the outcome of those plans/decisions as well.
We are human beings that always seem to forget how we made it through trials and tribulations of the past-especially when times are good. So prayer humbles the conscious mind and reminds the unconscious mind of the need for us to depend on our heavenly creator. God is our source of life and morning prayer allows that belief to reflect in our actions as we progress through the day.
How we begin to have Morning Prayer will be different for everyone. Just like the relationship we have with our heavenly creator is unique for every individual. In my opinion the best time to pray is before getting out of the bed. Spend a few minutes just thanking God for waking you up another day. Some people have morning rituals-like going to the toilet first for a morning release.
Personally I have received so much revelation from having a little prayer time with God while on the toilet in the morning. Talking to God while brushing your teeth or in the shower adds a bit of refreshment to our prayers- in the sense that we are washing off yesterday and looking forward to a great new day.
Once you start to tune in to your heavenly creator every morning, the universe tunes into you. Your thoughts are acted upon sometimes before you can make a verbal request to God. You become a light to other people who start their days in a “bad space.” They might not know that morning prayer is healing.
Morning prayer is a meditative time that affects every aspect of the mind, body and soul. It opens the mind and heart to receive insight, instruction and increase from our heavenly creator. Also we receive strength because prayer reminds us the life’s challenges don’t have to be handled by our might; we have a supernatural protector and angels that are here to help us when we call.
Consistent morning prayer restrains us from making so many unanticipated mistakes. This is the gospel of good news that Jesus encourages us to spread all over the world-God’s everlasting love and protection.
Copyright 2007 Sakkal Ent.
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