When the Bible makes statements that Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of the Father, it is affirming that he has equal status to the Father within the Godhead (Hebrews 1:3, 12:2; 1 Peter 3:22; Acts 7:55-56).
In Jesus' parable "The Sheep and the Goats", the sheep and goats are separated with the sheep on the right hand of God and the goats on the left hand.
St. Dismas was the “Good Thief” that was crucified at the right hand side of Jesus. He asked Jesus to remember him, and Jesus told him that he would be in Paradise with him that very day.
Mary sits enthroned in heaven on the right hand of Jesus Christ, who crowns her as “Queen of Heaven” in this 13th century apse mosaic in the Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. After Jesus himself, his mother, Mary, is the most venerated figure in Christian history.
Romans 8:34 says that Jesus “is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.” In 1 John 2:1 we read that Jesus is our “advocate with the Father,” and from Hebrews 7:25 we learn that Jesus “always lives to intercede” for us.
The “sign of the cross” is made by saying the Trinitarian invocation while touching one's right hand to the forehead first (Father), then to the lower chest or stomach (Son), then to the left shoulder and the right shoulder (Holy Spirit), and closing with both our hands together for assent (Amen).
God is looking for people who will pray on the behalf of the people and nations of the earth; an intercessor is one who pleas the case of another to God asking for His divine intervention.
God's left hand works to make people outwardly good. God's right hand works to make people inwardly holy. God is both left-handed and right-handed. The left and right hands of God work in different and opposite ways–and we don't always see how they are connected.
Matthew 20:21 in Other Translations
21 And he said unto her,What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
Catholics do not pray to Mary as if she were God. Prayer to Mary is memory of the great mysteries of our faith (Incarnation, Redemption through Christ in the rosary), praise to God for the wonderful things he has done in and through one of his creatures (Hail Mary) and intercession (second half of the Hail Mary).
Crucifixion by Hans von Tübingen showing Saint Dismas the Good Thief on Christ's right (the left of the picture), and Gestas the Impenitent Thief on Christ's left with a devil. Depictions of the crucifixion of Jesus often show Jesus' head inclined to his right, showing his acceptance of the Good Thief.
By combining these two apostles into a group with Judas in this manner, Leonardo was distancing himself from the traditional scheme of depiction used for Last Suppers, according to which Peter and John sat to the right and left of Jesus.
By implication, in the vast majority of people, the right hand is stronger. Thus, the Bible uses the right hand as a symbol of strength and honor (and stated that) in the left hand are riches and honor.
Enoch was instrumental in establishing the pre-eminent place of Michael among the angels or archangels, and in later Jewish works he is said to be their chief, mediating the Torah (the law of God) and standing at the right hand of the throne of God.
The raised right hand signifies bravery, power, virility; while on the contrary the same hand, turned to the left and placed below the left hand, signifies, according to context, the ideas of death, destruction and burial.
Mary “sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying” (Luke 10:39). Without understanding the cultural context, we might miss the profundity of Mary's posture. In Jewish tradition, “sitting at the feet” was what a disciple did.
"So the last will be first, and the first will be last." and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!" Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.
In this context Jesus made the above statement as found in Matthew 19:30, “But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.”
The phrase eleventh hour has a Biblical origin; it comes from a parable in Matthew in which a few last-minute workers, hired long after the others, are paid the same wage. Despite being brought on the job after eleven hours of hard vineyard work, they weren't too late.
The Left Hand of God is the story of sixteen-year-old Thomas Cale, who has grown up imprisoned at the Sanctuary of the Redeemers, a fortress run by a secretive sect of warrior monks in a distant, dystopian past.
As you correctly point out, the left hand customarily is placed on the Bible because, tradition says, it is the one closest to the heart. The right hand is then raised as you'll see in any swearing-in picture you hunt for — Barack Obama, Pat Quinn, etc.
In fact, the dual description of God's arms in this passage shows us His power and His comfort. “Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him.” When the Bible talks about God's right arm, it refers to His powerful, ruling arm—His justice, His holiness, and His strength. God is like that.
If Deborah had played small in her life, she would not have had all the experiences that led to her being used by the Lord to deliver Israel from bondage. She would not have had wisdom and revelation to judge disputes. She would not have heard the Lord's strategic battle plans as an intercessor.
In Paul we see the personal characteristics of courage, steadfastness, endurance, consecration, and self-sacrifice. Just as he possessed these unique attributes, every intercessor must have these same spiritual qualities. The Five Traits of an Effective Intercessor will change your power in prayer.
Intercessors have a very high calling of God in helping to build up God's kingdom.