Comments for One Foot In Front of the Other http://runningmom.wordpress.com Limping along on the most important run of my life Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Why Don’t Catholics Just Pray Directly to God? by stephen http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/why-dont-catholics-just-pray-directly-to-god/#comment-470 stephen Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:29:21 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/why-dont-catholics-just-pray-directly-to-god/#comment-470 hey, i just came here after googling the topic. i am a young christian; maybe i can ask for clarification? what is meant by saints "interceding for us"? i thought that when i intercede for someone, i agree with them and lift them up in prayer, that is where its benefit is. But how can dead saints or their spirits agree with our requests? I mean we can talk to our friends and agree in our minds and spirits and pray (worship god with all your mind and), i understand that... also...here is where i am confused... isnt praying to anyone but GOD not right? i know you can say u r not praying "to" the saint, only asking him to pray for u...but to do that, you have to communicate spiritually, and the only way to do that is to pray to them to ask right? as to the one mediator...well when we ask our friends to pray to god...please clear this up for me...THEY arent mediating because they are praying to JESUS who is the one Mediator, he will carry our prayers to God, he will mediate!!! So to ask our friends to do that isnt asking them to do "mediating"...but to ask a Saint to carry requests before God ...leaving out Jesus...that's mediating right! Which only JESUS can do...BECAUSE his BLOOD which he shed "pleads for us" as the Bible says...it is offered up as atonement to God :) NO one else can do that...no man can satisfy God's wrath with their blood :) no man can mediate...only Jesus :) i really appreciate your references to the bible, can you post more please :) The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.” James 5:16 i agree with that...but i notice it says a "righteous MAN" not a "righteous SPIRIT"...when we die we are no longer flesh and blood right...thans for discussing! may God bless you hey, i just came here after googling the topic. i am a young christian; maybe i can ask for clarification? what is meant by saints “interceding for us”? i thought that when i intercede for someone, i agree with them and lift them up in prayer, that is where its benefit is. But how can dead saints or their spirits agree with our requests? I mean we can talk to our friends and agree in our minds and spirits and pray (worship god with all your mind and), i understand that…
also…here is where i am confused…
isnt praying to anyone but GOD not right? i know you can say u r not praying “to” the saint, only asking him to pray for u…but to do that, you have to communicate spiritually, and the only way to do that is to pray to them to ask right?

as to the one mediator…well when we ask our friends to pray to god…please clear this up for me…THEY arent mediating because they are praying to JESUS who is the one Mediator, he will carry our prayers to God, he will mediate!!! So to ask our friends to do that isnt asking them to do “mediating”…but to ask a Saint to carry requests before God …leaving out Jesus…that’s mediating right! Which only JESUS can do…BECAUSE his BLOOD which he shed “pleads for us” as the Bible says…it is offered up as atonement to God :) NO one else can do that…no man can satisfy God’s wrath with their blood :) no man can mediate…only Jesus :)

i really appreciate your references to the bible, can you post more please :)

The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.” James 5:16
i agree with that…but i notice it says a “righteous MAN” not a “righteous SPIRIT”…when we die we are no longer flesh and blood right…thans for discussing! may God bless you

]]> Comment on Love at First Sight….. by Marilyn http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/love-at-first-sight/#comment-460 Marilyn Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:39:51 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=145#comment-460 How beautiful - lucky you to have a 4-d! Praying for you. How beautiful – lucky you to have a 4-d! Praying for you.

]]> Comment on Love at First Sight….. by SisterSpitfire http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/love-at-first-sight/#comment-459 SisterSpitfire Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:31:56 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=145#comment-459 well who wouldn't be? What a sweetie!! Congratulations. well who wouldn’t be? What a sweetie!! Congratulations.

]]> Comment on Choosing Joy by runningmom http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/choosing-joy/#comment-458 runningmom Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:01:36 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=136#comment-458 Hi Kate and welcome, Here's just the beginning of where you and I disagree: "a very personal responsibility " "a person or government that isn’t involved" I hope you have a blessed day. Hi Kate and welcome,

Here’s just the beginning of where you and I disagree:

“a very personal responsibility ”
“a person or government that isn’t involved”

I hope you have a blessed day.

]]> Comment on Choosing Joy by Kate W http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/choosing-joy/#comment-457 Kate W Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:49:02 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=136#comment-457 The person to protect your child is you. Mr. Obama didn't conceive the child. Mr. Obama does not perform abortions. It's unclear why a very personal responsibility is being thrust onto a person or government that isn't involved. Do the right thing. Don't condemn others. God judges. The person to protect your child is you. Mr. Obama didn’t conceive the child. Mr. Obama does not perform abortions. It’s unclear why a very personal responsibility is being thrust onto a person or government that isn’t involved. Do the right thing. Don’t condemn others. God judges.

]]> Comment on Advent is here. How Will You Prepare? by sarah http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/advent-is-here-how-will-you-prepare/#comment-452 sarah Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:12:48 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=140#comment-452 I lOVE this!!! D and I had it sent to us a few weeks ago, and we've been talking about it ever since. I lOVE this!!! D and I had it sent to us a few weeks ago, and we’ve been talking about it ever since.

]]> Comment on Choosing Joy by Rachel http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/choosing-joy/#comment-451 Rachel Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:44:40 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=136#comment-451 First, CONGRATULATIONS!! :D I share your grief and you can be assured that in spite of my intense personal dislike of our president elect, I will be praying for his conversion. The sooner he is converted, the sooner the damage of policies like this will be stopped. I am sad to say that I used to be pro-choice. The truth is I needed conversion, not anger, bitterness or hatred in order to change. This is probably my biggest personal challenge: to obediently love and pray for the people I want to hate. First, CONGRATULATIONS!! :D

I share your grief and you can be assured that in spite of my intense personal dislike of our president elect, I will be praying for his conversion. The sooner he is converted, the sooner the damage of policies like this will be stopped.

I am sad to say that I used to be pro-choice. The truth is I needed conversion, not anger, bitterness or hatred in order to change. This is probably my biggest personal challenge: to obediently love and pray for the people I want to hate.

]]> Comment on Let your voice be heard today – there’s a lot riding on this one…. by runningmom http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/let-your-voice-be-heard-today-theres-a-lot-riding-on-this-one/#comment-450 runningmom Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:17:43 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-450 Amen, Cindy. Amen, Cindy.

]]> Comment on Let your voice be heard today – there’s a lot riding on this one…. by Cindy http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/let-your-voice-be-heard-today-theres-a-lot-riding-on-this-one/#comment-449 Cindy Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:45:43 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-449 Powerful. Although I'm not Catholic, I stand alongside you and my Catholic brothers and sisters. The vote didn't go as we would have liked, and yet, Christ still reigns. He is unchangeable, unrelenting, and unswerveable. Lord, have mercy and bring justice. Powerful. Although I’m not Catholic, I stand alongside you and my Catholic brothers and sisters. The vote didn’t go as we would have liked, and yet, Christ still reigns. He is unchangeable, unrelenting, and unswerveable. Lord, have mercy and bring justice.

]]> Comment on A Sacred Assignment by Cindy http://runningmom.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/a-sacred-assignment/#comment-446 Cindy Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:07:12 +0000 http://runningmom.wordpress.com/?p=95#comment-446 Love your post and SO thankful to walk this journey with you! Love your post and SO thankful to walk this journey with you!

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