Zeroing in on prayers and in the
Lots over in how we need to not
Let your right hand from our left
Hand and how that praying over in
Quiet yet effective prayers that should
Only be between God and us and only
The two of us should be praying and
Not at all do it for attention but to
Do so as...
Really two prayers and one
Who had or wanted attention and
The other who was washed with guilt
He finally got redemption and hopefully he
Ended up in the righting a wrong and
Apologizing over on his sins but sadly the
Pharisee didn't get on only putting attention to
Himself and not pray a humble...
Sadly the Pharisee much less the
Tax collector as in the prayers
Are suppose to be heard only
By God and only to God and
How that when the former did the
Praying and how he got his
Just rewards on the earth and
When we pray to others and acting
Like we want attention it is bad and
Really...
Remember that prayers are
Suppose to be secret and that
Only God and the person that is praying
Are in the need to not be
Known as really it should be
For in the tax collector as he
Was really humbled and it seems
God got a huge hold on him
It may have been done with being
Washed with guilt and...
It is how the tax collector
As you and I can only hope that
Really turned his life around and
Knowing that he made amends with
Others he had wronged and how
He paid back over on those that he
Ended up robbing and hoping that they had
Forgiven him as maybe he was moved and
Changed inside out and...
Now it didn't say what happened
To both the Pharisee and the tax
Collector in the story after they
Prayed but that it is sadly to say
How the Pharisee got his reward on the
Earth that the rewards here over on the earth
Just are temporary and how that he
Shows his arrogance and self-entitlement...
You see that is where
Over in such a loud prayer
From the arrogant and very much
Attention seeking Pharisee and to
Get a job well done or a pat on the
Back but for the tax collector that
Didn't want anybody at all to see him
Praying and to keep that between him &
Just God and how it is where...
The tax collector hopefully had a
Change of heart and that he finally
Got his life straightened out and really
Began the process over in healing in those
He did wrong while the Pharisee sadly got his
So-called "reward" over in heaven and
Jesus doesn't like grandstanders as He
Really prefers...
Matthew 23:12 That says in the
He who exalts himself will be humbled
And he who humbles himself will be exalted
Our world can be prideful and there are
For on those who grandstand and how
Christ says that those that grandstand
Already have over in their attention
But for those who play quietly...
The tax collector despite the
Fact he is despised but that he was
Very totally ashamed over in his
Sins and that he was much more humble
Much more after standing off from a
Distance and that he didn't even look
Up over to heaven as he was very ashamed
By saying "God be merciful to me a...
God wants people to not
Know what the other is doing as
It was like not knowing like your
Left hand over your right hand in
Doing and how how the Pharisee was
Saying on that over in men like that tax
Collector and that it was grandstanding
By standing alone over in those he feels are
Unjust and...
The tax collector or in tax
Collectors over in general and
How that they were and really
Are due to the IRS that they are
Very much despised as hate is a
Strong word and four letter word
But that knowing that they take money
Especially on those that take the
Money over for personal reasons and...
How Jesus said over in two men
Praying as one was a Pharisee who
Wanted to be in praised and
Out in the open and that when
He did so it didn't come over as
Very sincere but it was more of
Getting attention and patted over
For a thank you and/or a job well
Done and knowing that he felt he was...
Zeroing over on in and how
Even if we feel like in the good
Thing that we do but we need to
Do so over in both with heart, mind,
And soul and how when we do the right thing
But also it needs to be in the way that
God sees us and how that He wants all of
Us to do the best to not do so in such a...