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NASB | Matthew 6:5 ¶ "When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 6:5 ¶ "Also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to pray [publicly] standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full. |
Bible Question: What is the relationship of God's word to parayer? |
Bible Answer: Melquisedec- what does your user name mean?? Welcome to the forum. May I request that you update your User Info. so that we might know something about you (not required). If I may quote DocTrinsograce (a participant here) in his post# 170353 he stated the following. "We are to live by every word of God. Men were meant to be directed always and continually by God. We know this because that is how God dealt with Adam before the fall. Even man in his sinless, perfect state needed to be told who he was, why he existed, what and how he was to do the tasks God gave to him." (See Luke 4:4 as a reference.) The Scripture establishes that our lives are to be lived in accordance with God's word. Knowing that, our prayers should be in accordance with God's word. A study of what prayer is (should be) is necessary and so I encourage you to embark on this. Prayer, be it a petition on the behalf of others, ourselves, a situation, should be approached in accordance with God's will which we can only begin to discern through Scripture. Our attitude should be in reverence, praise and worship with all thanks. We might think of Peter praying for Christ's deliverance from the Cross. (Matthew 16:21-23). His intentions were honorable, but completely out of the plan and will of God. The following verses (24-26) continues to give insight (from our Lord Himself) into this. I tend to believe that most people petition the Lord for their own needs first and some only seek Him at all when they are in dire straits. At those times, it's easy to see how the focus might be on self. I'm not sure that even immediately after being rebuked face-to-face by the Lord Himself that Peter, in the above example, understood his own error. It was likely sometime after the ressurection that Peter understood it sufficiently. Hope this gets the topic started. Others much more prepaired will chime in soon. God bless, Jeff |
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