Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, TO BE SEEN OF THEM: otherwise ye have NO REWARD of your Father which is in heaven.
That is your reward doing good deeds in front of men, doing things in secret is the best and most beneficial. Keep it a secret in all ways of life...
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not SOUND A TRUMPET before thee, AS THE HYPOCRITES do in the synagogues and in the streets, THAT THEY MAY HAVE GLORY OF MEN. Verily I say unto you, THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD.
So in other words if you do something good and you let all people know about it and blab about it they have their reward...such as giving clothes, lending or giving money to one that is in need, boasting of such you have your reward...and this applies in deeds too...Now in teaching and giving an example is another thing of ones example in life...however, even these very works are a mystery in doing it in perfection as it fits you to be with your creator, I would practice giving things...and I would not dare tell but a close friend...and I would wait to see what God would do and when it came He would either reward or like pile them up for them all...that is how personally it worked for me but everybody has to find their way with God personally, intricately, and precise in the thought even as the Greatest Commandment.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
KEY POINT...if you are trying to do something good and great in giving or whatever, it is best NOT to let some people know, BE WISE ONLY WORK with those that is FOR YOUR RIGHTEOUS Cause...otherwise they will be constantly badgering you, bashing you, and tearing it down in all kinds of ways, sometimes this even requires a secret from a part of yourself this depends on how far your mind is and is expanded...Whereas, the deep vs the shallow etc
4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall REWARD THEE OPNENLY.
Here Jesus Christ is NEEDING TO desperately DESTROY the deceivable tactics of the Pharisees they are blind to their own selves by their stinking tactics and because He opens their eyes they kill Him because He is right and they hate Him for telling them the truth...their world had became so false and sick because they had forsaken God in their heart and mind...and put their earthly fathers ahead of God instead of Seeking HIS FACE and HIS Heart to BE IN THEIR LIFE...yes Honor your parents but PROVE them by PROVING ALL Things by the word and TALKING TO GOD...Hence why it is best to pray In a secret place out of peoples sight...This is a commandment and also this does NOT MEAN not to Praise HIM in His Congregation it just means for YOU in YOUR walk as GOD Made YOU ask God to Show YOU HOW to BE REAL according to HIS COMMANDMENTS when you read them He will show YOU just ask HIM...and be sincere, ask in Secret and He will reward OPENLY...So you can pray in church and praise, but if that is the ONLY time you do it, and there is no personal walk with the ALMIGHTY in your Closet the FRUIT is EVIDENT if it is show or not...by the FRUIT
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall REWARD THEE OPENLY.
See the relationship with Jesus Christ is the Secret of Secrets...OF ALL THINGS...
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Vain Repetitions??? It is stating a prayer from the head, and NOT the heart and soul...SINCERITY is in a very very low degree...this is when Jesus Help Me is the Most Sincere...because reading a prayer to God is that really you or Are you afraid to be you with God...because God is ALL about YOU and NONE other...be honest with yourself and DON'T every be lying to God because you are lying to yourselve is a Vain Repetition...because if you are hiding something it will surface...hence the PUBLICAN Prayer is far more Valuable...
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Manner is a word for "way something is done: the way in which something is done or happens
way of being: the characteristic way in which somebody behaves type: a type or kind" ...Kind David did this in all His Psalms in many ways and the other prayers...when you learn to do this from your heart and Ask God to show you How...saying it is good but praying in the Manner of it or the way of it is better...you say well what do you mean? Seek His face regarding such and it is best That He show you this Himself...for the true hearts will seek Him out...
9 After this MANNER therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
The Lords Prayer is showing us the way to pray, it is okay to SEEK Jesus CHRIST face regarding this, but the first step in getting to this is receiving the Holy Ghost given by the price He paid on the CROSS...then as you Grow in the Word He will show you...the mystery of this way and manner...NOT from and specific passage written but from the discovery of God gives you; therefore, your relationship keeps growing and soaring and God is the Infinite...Always seek Him OUT...Never forget to seek Him OUT...Remember to forgive for if you don't and if you cant ask Him to Help you forgive ...for if you DONT it Blocks and Hinders your prayers...
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Now Fasting is another thing but treat it in secret...like if you go on a 7 day fast, do NOT be disparaging in any manner, for I have heard them say no I can't and whine that they are on a 7 day fast, and the funny thing is they are about done it is always the last day of their fast...and I mean why say that...sure they are fighting satan but honestly praise Him all the way...go on a Welches Grape Juice 100% fast, water and grape juice...1 day, 3 days, and 7 days...then you have the Prophet Daniel Fast as well...but DONT disfigure your faces for then you have your reward...this is how satan will tempt you on your fast...this man would fast and it never failed he would do it in secret but his wife would never cease to light the vanilla candles in the house and he would get soooo hungry but would NOT but after this happened several times...then then had to explain what was being doing...now I just said satan tempted him or was it God testing him...because he is explained this to a church and I always laugh for I see those resemblance of my own vanilla candles when a fast is in play...and when you eat normally is when you pray on a fast...now if you forget and slip up and eat a piece of candy or a snack and in the middle of it realize you are fasting, simple repent and put the rest away and pray you don't forget to hold out for the rest of the length you intended...this happens too...personally I would eat a mint, or would be given bite size piece of chocolate and in the middle of a bite remember oh yeah Im fasting today...oops, and usually I will spit it out but I have also eaten a whole snack and when I through away the wrapper ...I realized I was fasting but I repent and finish...I stay on water and coffee (without sugar or creamer, pure stuff), and recently added Welches 100% Grape Concord Juice. --- v17 just pray over yourself and wash thy face...in Jesus Christ...Now I am just saying DONT blow the rest of your appointed dedicated time you chose to fast and give to the Lord by one snack or bite of candy...just get back on Course...some judge and criticize you just blew it...it means repent and get back on track...
16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD.
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.
Treasures in Heaven NOT EARTH...this is a challenge in itself but not really...I still seek it out, but abiding by the law in business and more, and being desirous of the Gospel to tell it, because so Many is blind to this aspect...because Anything that is Anti Jesus Christ is Anti God...and is a form of an Idol because The Great I AM is the God of ISRAEL and It is He and ONLY He who blesses and does more...Psalm 16 says to Not even Name any other for He is very Jealous...So if you have a treasure and it binds your heart to earth and NOT HEAVEN...it is not laid up in Heaven.. IN EARTH as it is IN HEAVEN...what is bound in earth is bound in heaven...what is losed in Heaven is losed in the earth...is a history and mystery to this concept...The Secret is this passage John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. ...because if this be the case you ask NOR desire NOTHING contrary to HIS COMMANDMENTS therefore it is all good and when it is not you will know...but this is the PRIMARY secret to it all for your mind will even dream according to the Commandments and NOT contrary...Oh the secret of secrets is before you eyes in this study of the book...your mind will in a funny way cast things out that is not UPRIGHT...Psalm 16 Preserve me and LET NOT ANYTHING that is Anti-JESUS CHRIST dwell in my mind...because it Has been proven in Healings He is the God of the Universe...so if it be Anti-Jesus Christ it is ANTI-GOD OF THE UNIVERSE...***No this is not premeditated this is so deep it baffles me but I have been saying over and over in my mind as how to get it across and it just came point clear...so there you go that is all in this thing...if your reading some of you dream of things related somehow...so there you go...Sagaxity is the Seeking out of the divinity of the mind in all REALMS of but you MUST have the TRUTH in it or you will lose your way...and be as a drifting planet which roams and really is on no orbit...but eventually the soul will cry and the cry causes like a gravity pull to his/her Maker...and it finds its place and purpose because the soul found His Maker...
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
If you practice things with these in evidence you are striving to know the LIGHT...and this is in Your Sleep as well Galations 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ...IF you are more in these then you are in the Darkness Galations 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. as stated below...
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Here is God saying you cannot serve God, Who is Jesus Christ, and mammon...which reflects all idols and anything else that is NOT of Him is classified as mammon materialistic things of man or of the imagination that is contrary and very indifferent to the Word of God It is NOT at all God because anything is NOT or cannot fit into the Laws of the Upright, falls in the ways of wickedness and the The Book explains it in detail...Jeremiah 33:3 you can find anything of today in the Bible KJV version...So if it don't place in righteousness then it is placed in wickedness, the Bible shows the place of Both...to the utter degrees in all things...Because anything that is NOT of JESUS CHRIST as 1 John 2 it is Anti-God because It has to in perfection match up the BIBLE because He Fulfilled the OLD TESTAMENT...and I clearly states anything else is a lie and is a man's idea which cannot save nor redeem a soul...Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in ANY OTHER: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. - ANY OTHER is mammon...Jesus will Prove it...for He is the GREAT I AM...and He does it everyday...
25 Therefore I say unto you, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; NOR yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
If you have this desire just Ask God to show and teach you how to NOT take any thought for tomorrow...Like Jesus Christ states in v27 by taking only Thought can add one cubit to his stature?...we can't but through Jesus Christ we can when we obey and heed to all these things...
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Give praise to Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ only...He will take care of it...It is HIS PLEASURE to do so...
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Worry NOT of Clothes I mean Jesus Christ had one robe and cloak that is it on His journeys, and one pair of sandals,...Now if He had tons of luggage to carry with Him on His journey but He didn't for He gave us the Power to live so abundantly and more in all ways...it would have been a nightmare to hall all that everywhere...He will take care of it...
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
WHY??? Because it is a show of utter trust and you have peace once you get to this level...It helps to absolutely to pay your thithes,..so the devourer don't just rob your money along with your peace of mind...hence it gives you stress...Give for it is better to give than receive...
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
The Gentiles were loaded with fashions, gossips, and more of the latest invention and so on and THEIR DAYS were CONSUMED with such things...BUT focus NOT on that as your LIFE, but seek Him first and you WILL BE THE ONE Making the Inventions...afterall did HE NOT give us an example of being a Carpenter which is an inventor of things of wood and so on...be Self Employed Self Reliant, and if be a servant do all to the Glory of GOD in all you do...and then there is freedom... SEEK FIRST the KINGDOM OF GOD...and as it states below Matthew 6:33
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
This is a mystery and a ponder ...v34
