Sharing is Caring

  Let’s pray together with one accord!     [Acts 4:23-31]     A faithful daughter-in-law lived under constant persecution from her unbelieving mother-in-law for her faith in Jesus.   However, through tearful prayers for her mother-in-law's soul and singing hymn “Yield not to Temptation,” she found comfort.   One day, members of the church went to preach the gospel to her mother-in-law together.   'Grandma, believe in Jesus and come out to the church.   Your daughter-in-law is praying for you with tears.'   'That's all just a show.   I followed her secretly when she went to pray, and all she did was sing a song about overcoming me.'   A surprised pastor asked her: 'What song was it?'   'Uh... something like... 'You, don't be discouraged by trials, gather your courage and overcome, gain new strength by overcoming trials~' (Internet).   This anecdote brings a smile through the misunderstanding of praise by t...

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Let’s pray.       [ Matthew 7 : 7-11]     When we think about prayer we Christians often talk about Pastor George Mueller, who was called a man of prayer or a warrior of prayer.  The reason is because he is known for receiving the most answers to prayers in history.  He is said to have received answered prayers more than 50,000 prayers.  As I was preparing for this sermon, I learned about Pastor George Muller's six lifelong prayer tips and shared them with you (Internet): (1) Trust in Jesus!  Pray on the merits of Jesus, not on your merits.  (2) Forsake sin!  If we pray with sin, God will not hear our prayers.  Forsake the sin hidden in your heart (Ps. 66:18).  (3) Believe!  We must believe in the word of promise that God has sworn and pray (Heb. 11:6).  (4) Pray with patience!  The attitude of a prayer is firstly patience, secondly patience, and thirdly, patience.  As a farmer waits pati...

‘Pray in this way’     [Matthew 6:9-13]     We were taught by Jesus about prayer by focusing on Matthew 6:5-8 under the title ‘when you pray.’  We received three lessons from Jesus about prayer: (1) When we pray we must not be like hypocrites.  Jesus was pointing out the wrong public prayers of the Jews (Seyoon Kim).  Jesus is telling us not to pray hypocritically like the Pharisees and the scribes.  (2) When we pray we should pray to our Father in secret.  This is the lesson that Jesus taught the Jews to pray right after pointing out their wrong public prayers.  We must pray to our Heavenly Father in secret.  (3) When we pray we must not keep on babbling.  This lesson Jesus pointed out to the wrong prayers of the Gentiles.  In this way, after pointing out the wrong prayers of the Gentiles, Jesus comes to verse 8 and teaches the correct prayer: “So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need befo...