prayer - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • pray: Would you like to pray that prayer very solemnly to God just now?
  • recite: The Mishnah attributes to Ezra a decree that each male should immerse himself before reciting the morning prayer or studying.
  • answer: Had He answered prayer by sending His invisible army?

Adjective modifier

  • fervent: Whenever the people assembled for worship, fervent prayer was offered up to God in their behalf.
  • intercessory: Cell groups and intercessory prayer have since been key features of the continuing success of the Korean church.
  • contemplative: The house is an ecumenical house for contemplative prayer.
  • earnest: In earnest prayer, he did not peer back through the trees in the dark to try to see if their eyes were shut.
  • silent: Let us now spend a few moments in silent prayer for our own needs and for the needs of the world.
  • obligatory: My father, who before had often read the Koran and never missed his obligatory prayers, became an atheist after this search.

Modifies a noun

  • vigil: In a letter to all the parishes of Westminster, the Cardinal has called for similar prayer vigils.
  • mat: Now Cusack will get out the prayer mat and hope he recovers to make Saturday's home League curtain raiser with Rushden & Diamonds.
  • ministry: A prayer box and prayer ministry members will be present and an area within a tent to give privacy.
  • bead: Old men with long beards sit beneath trees, fingering prayer beads, their skin brown and wrinkled.
  • flag: We walked for about an hour to reach a large wheel festooned with prayer flags fluttering in the wind.
  • triplet: We want to encourage prayer triplets, prayer in small groups, using Ebe prayer diary, prayer ministry, etc.

Noun used with modifier

  • bidding: Mike Beal read the bidding prayers in a week of horror in London and in many places around the world.
  • midday: The time of Zuhr, the midday prayer, begins after the sun has crossed the zenith point and has begun to decline.

Preposition: of

  • thanksgiving: The cardinals make an act of homage and obedience to the new pope and join in a prayer of thanksgiving.
  • saint: And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God.

Preposition: for

  • healing: I would welcome prayer for healing or other needs We hold a service of prayer for healing once a month.

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