PPT-Why Do we pray?

The Christian faith is to be believed celebrated and lived in an intense and personal relationship with the living and true God Prayer is the place of covenant It comes from the heart CCC 2563 The heart is our hidden center beyond the grasp of our reason and of others only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. Pray for the ACSA Provincial Trusts Board meeting in Natal Sat 07 Pray for Pam Berning Keith as Prayer Coordinator for Anglicans Ablaze SOMA producing prayer updates Sun 08 Pray for Bishop Martin leading a mission to the Parish of Knysna George Di Pray for Greece. Over 90% of the people in Greece will profess to be ‘Christian’. Most of this Christianity is very nominal but 16% of the population would describe themselves as ‘very religious’ which is the highest number of the countries in Europe.. The . Kedar. Range of the Greater Himalayas. Population. India has the second largest population in the world. It is not far behind China and is projected to overtake China soon with an increase of 16 million each year.. Pray for Zambia. The voice of the Lord . is over the waters;. The God of glory thunders;. The Lord . is over many waters.. The voice of the Lord . is powerful;. The voice of the Lord . is full of majesty.. Nearly 3 million people live in the capital city of Ukraine, Kiev.. Christianity in Ukraine. A nationwide survey indicated that 75% of the people in Ukraine believe in God.. About a third of the population identify with one of the Eastern . The population of Malaysia. 61% of the population in Malaysia are . M. uslim. .. 9.2% identify as Christian with about half of Christians identifying with evangelicalism.. Islam is the state religion but citizens are granted freedom of religion… but in practice this does . Instructor. s. ocialimps.keithpray.net. Class 5. Intellectual Property. © 2016 Keith A. Pray. Overview. Review. Assignment. Students Present. Guest Speaker. © 2016 Keith A. Pray. 2. © 2016 Keith A. Pray. 18. may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, . 19. and to know this love that surpasses knowledge . Praying for spiritual experience. Learning to Pray Like Jesus. When Jesus Prayed. .... It was intensely personal. Psalm 63:1 . O . God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. (. Workbook. Page 43). PRAY FOR 20/20 VISION. Rev. Dr. David P. E. Maier. PRAY FOR 20/20 VISION. To . some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable. “Prayer is the spiritual air that the soldier of God breathes.” . – John MacArthur. Ephesians 6:18-20. “And . pray in the Spirit . on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.”. What information would you share with…. An acquaintance?. Your neighbour?. Your boss?. A work colleague?. A friend?. A family member?. A best friend?. A spouse?. Switch on. “. 16. Rejoice always, . Prayer is worship. Worship = offer of praise, adoration and gratitude to God.. Prayer is worship because it offers praise, adoration and gratitude to God.. For many, prayer is only a last . restort. . After all else has failed and we are deeper in trouble, then we pray for God to get us out of the problem.. Status is ubiquitous in modern life, yet our understanding of its role as a driver of inequality is limited.  In Status, sociologist and social psychologist Cecilia Ridgeway examines how this ancient and universal form of inequality influences today’s ostensibly meritocratic institutions and why it matters. Ridgeway illuminates the complex ways in which status affects human interactions as we work together towards common goals, such as in classroom discussions, family decisions, or workplace deliberations. Ridgeway’s research on status has important implications for our understanding of social inequality. Distinct from power or wealth, status is prized because it provides affirmation from others and affords access to valuable resources. Ridgeway demonstrates how the conferral of status inevitably contributes to differing life outcomes for individuals, with impacts on pay, wealth creation, and health and wellbeing. Status beliefs are widely held views about who is better in society than others in terms of esteem, wealth, or competence. These beliefs confer advantages which can exacerbate social inequality. Ridgeway notes that status advantages based on race, gender, and class—such as the belief that white men are more competent than others—are the most likely to increase inequality by facilitating greater social and economic opportunities. Ridgeway argues that status beliefs greatly enhance higher status groups’ ability to maintain their advantages in resources and access to positions of power and make lower status groups less likely to challenge the status quo. Many lower status people will accept their lower status when given a baseline level of dignity and respect—being seen, for example, as poor but hardworking. She also shows that people remain willfully blind to status beliefs and their effects because recognizing them can lead to emotional discomfort. Acknowledging the insidious role of status in our lives would require many higher-status individuals to accept that they may not have succeeded based on their own merit many lower-status individuals would have to acknowledge that they may have been discriminated against. Ridgeway suggests that inequality need not be an inevitable consequence of our status beliefs. She shows how status beliefs can be subverted—as when we reject the idea that all racial and gender traits are fixed at birth, thus refuting the idea that women and people of color are less competent than their male and white counterparts. This important new book demonstrates the pervasive influence of  status on social inequality and suggests ways to ensure that it has a less detrimental impact on our lives.