Jesus continued teaching about the Righteousness that exceeds that of the Pharisees
The motive of practicing righteousness should not be to be seen by men and appreciated as great people in church, our giving should not be to seek honour from men otherwise there is no reward from the Father;
In our prayers and fasting as well, it should not be to seek a name for ourselves or honour before men, but secretly before our Father. We should seek attention in our service to God
In our prayers, we are praying to our Father in heavens, who controls every circumstance and situations affecting me:
Let that name be honoured and His will be done in earth as it's done in heaven. This means that God name is held in reverence and fear and His will is done and obeyed without delay and with and the angels take it as a great privilege to do God's will. What about you. Do you hold God's name in reverence and fear. Do take doing God's will as a privilege or as a burden?
Give us everyday what we need and forgive us our debts as we forgive those who forgive us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil : for to you belongs all Glory, power and the kingdom forever.
He says that if we do not forgive neither will we be forgiven
The tragedy of this is that you can live all your life in church finally because of unforginess, you'll discover your sins were not forgiven and you end up in hell
We should lay our treasures in heaven not on earth for where our treasures are there will our hearts be also.
The heart always follows the where we have kept the treasure: if we are to have a heavenly standpoint and if we are to view things from heavenly point of view, we must keep first our treasures there.
Your eye, which your conscience, is the lamp of the body, if your conscience is clear, your whole body will be full of light: but if you silence your conscience and go against it and ignore it pricking you, your whole life will be in darkness.
You cannot serve God and money
There are two words word for us to understand well what Jesus meant.
Master and servant
You have to be a master and a servant. A servant to obey and be given instructions and a master to direct and give guidance.
You either make God your Master and make money your servant, or you either make money your Master and you automatically make God your servant.
God has to tell you what to do and you have to tell money what to do and not vice versa. Not how much money you have but whether you have little or much, it has to be your servant. Just like you can employ a lot of servants but they have to remain servant. There would be a serious problem if that servant becomes the boss to whom you have to submit.
For this reason, don't be worried about food and clothes for God clothes the flowers and feed the birds.....but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
And everyday has enough troubles of its own.
You are blessed to be a blessing
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@ _blessed mambo_
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