Posted on 04/30/2010 8:03:48 AM PDT by Quix
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7 “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 8 Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! 9 Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, --New Living Translation 7And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. [I Kings 18:25-29.] 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9Pray, therefore, like this: 15But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their [j]reckless and willful sins, [k]leaving them, letting them go, and [l]giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. --Amplified Pray with Simplicity 5"And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat? 6"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace. 7-13"The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: 16-18"When you practice some appetite-denying discipline to better concentrate on God, don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a small-time celebrity but it won't make you a saint. If you 'go into training' inwardly, act normal outwardly. Shampoo and comb your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face. God doesn't require attention-getting devices. He won't overlook what you are doing; he'll reward you well. |
Mark Kirby: O Mother of Good Counsel, I am all thine, Most Holy Mary, There is no part of my life that is not open to thee, I want to be completely transparent with thee, Praying in this way, I can be at rest, |
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Amen
I'm sure I'm not alone, but my experience has been the more heated the discussion the greater the opportunity to learn something new. It seems that those that can't defend their beliefs are the first to cry foul.
Great points.
Thx.
ROFL!!!! Looks like it. ;-D
NOT AT ALL.
There’s just only a given number of hours and a given amount of energy in each of our lives.
GREAT BELLY LAUGH.
THX.
Protestant.
. . . we don’t hide anything . . .
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Except vast geographies of INCONVENIENT TRUTH.
evidently, even from yourselves.
LOL.
All.
There’s just only a given number of hours and a given amount of energy in each of our lives.
The amount of time spent here doesn't matter. What matters is the percentage of it which is consumed in addressing Catholicism. One only needs to look at posting history to see the answer.
Your denomination?
Why?
The Christian churches of the Apostolic era were not a centralized hierarchy and Christianity spread like wildfire. I think there is a good argument that the more centralized Christianity has become the more it’s declined. The fastest growing Christian churches in our southern hemisphere are Pentecostal and Baptist. They are both decentralized in structure.
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INDEED TO THE MAX.
THX.
So, you don’t belong to any denomination. Just the Church of whatever MetMom decides, right?
I traced back a step or two and I have no idea what you were referring to that I said.
Since I don’t think that Rnmomof7 and I have ever known each other and it’s unlikely that we grew up in the same area, it sure is interesting that we get the same beliefs about what the Catholic Church teaches *wrong*.
If two unrelated people are going to misinterpret what they’ve heard, you’d expect them to have different things they misinterpreted, instead of the same ones in the same way.
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INDEED. WELL PUT.
With six of nine U.S. Supreme Court justices being Roman Catholic and with Ratzinger issuing his “global authority” encyclical to all the world, it’s important to identify the lies Rome teaches and how to combat them by the word of God.
This is a political/religion forum, after all. And as we’ve learned from these many many threads, Rome is all politics, all the time.
Bad politics.
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INDEED.
WELL PUT.
THX.
Well, this is the northern hemisphere. What are the fastest growing churches in the northern hemisphere? What is your denomination?
sigh....I’ll bet these days God is just glad to hear from us even if we don’t “get it right” whatever that is...
I talk to him all the time like he’s sitting/standing next to me. Hope he doesn’t think that’s insulting somehow.
In this case . . .
they are chapter and verse from an officially sanctioned volume published by a very kosher publishing house within THE SYSTEM.
Mat 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
(e-Sword:KJV)
Not anyone anymore special than you.
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