LESSON 82
Jesus Teach His Disciples How to Pray
Everything the Pharisees use to do, they use to do it for people to see it and praise them. If they do good for anybody, they can want other people to know it. They use to pray in public areas for everybody to see them. The Pharisees use to memorize long prayers and say it in the synagogues and on the street so people can hear them. So the people wor surprise when Jesus tell them say: ‘Yor mon not pray like the Pharisees. They can be thinking da God will be happy with their long prayer. But he not happy with it. Prayer da something between you and Jehovah. Don’t say the same things over and over. Jehovah want you to tell him how you really feeling in your heart.
‘So you mon pray like this: “Our Father in heaven, let your name be holy. Let your Kingdom come. Let your will happen on earth, the same way it in heaven.”’ Jesus also tell them da they mon pray for their food for the day, for God to forgive their sins, and for other personal things.
Jesus say: ‘We mon never stop praying. Continue asking your Father, Jehovah, for good things. Every parent can want give good things to their child. If your son ask you for bread, you will give him rock? Or if your son ask you for fish, you will give him snake?’
Then Jesus explain what it mean. He say: ‘If you know how to give good gifts to your children, you not think your Father, Jehovah, will be more willing to give you holy spirit? The only thing you need to do da to ask.’ You can follow Jesus advice? What some thing dem you can pray about?
“Continue to ask, and he will give it to you; continue looking, and you will find it; continue knocking, and he will open it for you.”—Matthew 7:7