How to Pray – Creating Sacred Time for Prayer
A very common piece of advice for learning how to pray is to set aside a specific time to pray every day. This is excellent advice. But you cannot take full advantage of it unless you understand why it’s so effective. Let’s explore why creating sacred time is so important to Catholic prayer.
Seeing The Word Alive in MeRecently I’ve been chewing on and digesting God’s Word. I have been studying very deeply over the past three years. I used to think quantity of Bible reading was important, but now I see it’s a loss. When God tells us to meditate on it day and night for good success, it means we are to take a Word that He has given us or that we have seen in the Bible that jumps out at us to be pondered…
Have you ever wondered what life was like for Jesus Christ? Reading the four gospels gives us a clear answer to this question.
The Prayer Life of JesusIn Mark 1:35 we read a most amazing verse. “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
The Life Of Jesus – Purely Prophecies FulfilledHow many people do you know whose lives were prophesied about before they were born? Jesus Christ is one of them. In His case, virtually everything about His life was prophesied long before He was born! What does this mean? It surely shows He is not a fake and He means business. This article gives some of the prophecies about Christ and their fulfillment.
Object Lesson – Christian PumpkinsPumpkins are closely associated with both Halloween and Thanksgiving and are most likely native to America. In this week’s lesson you’ll find a lot of game ideas using pumpkins, and also a reminder that God looks at the inside and not merely whats on the outside. He wants us to have a clean heart. Like a like shining from inside the pumpkin, he also wants us to shine out to the world.
Mark 2:23-27 is the fourth of five consecutive episodes (found in Mark 2:1 – 3:6) that highlight the growing conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees. This incident concerns the Pharisees’ criticism of Jesus and his disciples for an apparent violation of the Jewish Sabbath law.
Karma, What Is It and How It Holds You Back From God?Karma is the sum total of your lives. Each action creates an equal reaction. It is to your advantage to understand karma and the proper usage of it.
The One Who Knows His Nafs Knows Allah“Reason” is the first parameter that changes the human life the most and differentiates him from all other creatures. “Faith” is the second important parameter that causes the indefinable major changes in human life where the Reason acquires a new, selfless, and divine criterion. In this dimension, the human accepts the existence of Allah (swt) and is subject to the divine training system of Him. The only obstacle of knowing Allah is nafs (ego). The nafs is the biggest curtain between Allah and the servant. The one who is servant of Allah is saved from being slave to nafs. And reaches to the real freedom.
A Cry for the Blessing of the Lord Certainly Gets the Lord’s AttentionWhat situation are you in that is so devastating and also beyond what you can handle? In situations like that what you need is intervention from the most High God, a touch from The Lord. What you actually need is the blessing of God. This post emphasizes the importance of seeking for God’s blessings and how to secure the blessings.
Try These 5 Tricks If You’re Feeling Trapped in a RelationshipOpen and honest communication is the most recommended way to deal with feeling trapped in a relationship. But what if you’ve tried that and it didn’t work? Here are five other ways to help you deal with such a situation.
Ever Wondered Who Are We?Our life is divided into phases of childhood, adult life and advanced age. Our environment, the package we brought with us from our previous reincarnation and life circumstances make us the person we are today. Every life reincarnation give us the opportunity to learn what we lack and need to acquire, which can be both in terms of skills and most importantly in terms of acquiring good qualities and applying virtues over vices. Yet, this doesn’t seem quite impossible to acquire, for to assess any action, one needs to ask himself or herself whether his action holds love or hate, and whether it does good to someone else or not.



