
How Not to Pray
Thoughts and Encouragements: From Scripture, we can learn a lot about how to pray, but we can also find examples of how we should not pray. Jesus speaks in the Gospel of Matthew: “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites who love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men” (Matthew 6:5). At the time when the New Testament was written, religious leaders were highly regarded people in high positions within society. Jesus refers to them as those who love for society to treat them […]