The phrase "a fervent prayer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a strong, passionate, or intense request or supplication to a higher power.
Example: "In times of crisis, many people turn to a fervent prayer for guidance and strength."
Alternatives: "a heartfelt prayer" or "an earnest prayer".
But after 35 heedless years of tucking in my napkin at tables all across the continent, here goes — with a fervent prayer that I bring bad luck to none of the chefs involved here, some of them friends.
Hernandez held a victory rally Sunday night, starting with a fervent prayer led by his wife, then a speech in which he vowed to continue his controversial use of military police to fight Honduras' wild homicide and crime rate.
To many, the 2008 election represented a fervent prayer for meaningful change in Washington, for restoration of the people's democracy and the end of corporate looting of the treasury.
Mr. Mehta altered, at least for a brief spell, India's most popular slogan, a form of fervent prayer addressed to an unidentified benefactor: "Food, clothes and shelter".
She is caught in a moment of fervent prayer, though it isn't clear whether she is praying for the salvation of her soul or just for the telephone to ring.
Sorry, everyone, Mark Udall and Bob Schaffer left Meet The Press today under their own power, despite a nation's fervent prayer that both men's bones get ground to dust and spittle under the weight of a downward descending baby grand piano.
In the evenings, when he can, he often retreats to a rustic cottage that he built, with a tiny chapel decorated with icons he himself painted, for a relaxing sauna, a dip in a nearby pond and fervent prayer.
It is also my fervent prayer that a new pope will understand that science can be used for the betterment of man's condition and that stem cell research may well be an essential element to save human life.
" Not only believing but doing is part of effectual prayer: "...the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man [right with God] avails much"(James 5 16)[3] is a promise in the Bible.
Brother Leggett, whose previous sexual reluctance is meant to be read (I guess) as a suggestion of his own homosexuality, is nonetheless naturally horrified, and in his half of a furious duet, he retreats into fervent prayer.
Mary Stuart's fervent prayer for freedom struck a particularly strong chord: "I wanted," Dallapiccola said, "the divine word libera to be shouted by everyone".
