Wednesday, January 25, 2023

BLESSED BY PURE ALMS GIVING AND PRAYING

My Dear Precious Child, In the instructions of Jesus Christ on the attitudes towards prayers to pray and the attitude toward alms-giving when My Kingdom of God eventually came into the lives of His followers, He was definite about them. First of all He said that His followers must not parade their good deeds before people to attract their notice or they would lose their reward from Me. So, He instructed them that when they, and you, give your tithes, alms, offerings or gifts that you are not to let anyone know because that's what the hypocrites do is parade their good deeds to be noticed. He said that the people who let other people know about their giving already have their reward from other people who admire them for their generous gift giving. He said when they give their alms that they should not even let their own left hand know what their right hand is giving, that their giving must be in secret and I, who knows your giving in secret, will reward you openly. (Matthew 6:1-4) Plus, He added that when they, and you, pray that the same attitudes must be had toward your praying as in the alms giving. He said that you and they must not be like the hypocrites who stand praying in front of people to be seen of them and complimented for their beautiful prayers. With the same attitude as toward giving alms, He told His followers that those people have their reward already which is the adoration of the observers of their prayers. Instead of praying in public, Jesus told His followers that their attitude toward praying must be that it's a private action between you and Me. He said that you must go into your prayer room, shut the door and pray to Me who is also in that secret place, and that I, who sees that it's all done in secret, will reward you. (Matthew 6:5-6) Relating to praying, Jesus was explicit about it when He said not to babble on and on like the pagans who believe that the more words they pray, the more chance they will be heard by Me. (Matthew 6:7-10) He said not to be like them because I know what you need before you even ask. He said that you should only ask that My kingdom would come into your life with more revelations so that you will be empowered to do My will in the earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6: 10; Ephesians 1:15-23; Ephesians 3:14-21) Jesus Christ knew that when My Kingdom came into their lives that their sins would be forgiven by Me, which is part of the benefits of My Kingdom of God coming to live inside of My children. (Jeremiah 31:31-34) He knew that they and you would have the desire, attitude and power to forgive the sins of other people and so your own sins would also be forgiven because there is no record of it in heaven or in the earth if you have forgiven them. (Matthew 6:12-13) Having just finished being tempted by the devil and knowing that it required My power of the Holy Spirit to resist the temptation, Jesus asked Me not to test My other children in the same way. Jesus had to resist the devil in the earth in order to later defeat the devil in his own territory, hell, when He went to hell for the sins of the world after He was crucified. In order to further emphasize these teachings about what kind of attitudes My children must have when they enter into My Kingdom of God, He summed up these teachings by saying that they should not store up treasures on earth where insects can destroy them and thieves steal them, as in giving arms in public and praying in public, but instead they must store up treasures in My heaven, as in praying in their praying closet where only I can hear and giving alms without anyone knowing because nothing can break in and steal them. Jesus Christ encapsulated this truth when He said that where your treasure is, there your heart is also, speaking of attitudes. In other words, if your desire is to be praised by men for your giving and praying, then your heart is carnal; but if your attitude is to only be celebrated by Me by your only praying in unity with Me in your prayer closet, then your heart is spiritual and of the Holy Spirit. Your prayers will be answered by My Holy Spirit when you pray in your prayer closet, while the prayers of the hypocrites are only rewarded with the praise of people for their beautiful prayers or generous alms giving. (Matthew 6:19-21) In His teaching about good attitudes and bad attitudes, Jesus Christ was very clear about how to have your prayers answered and it was not by praying in front of people with long, babbling prayers to impress people. He said that if that is your attitude toward praying, then your reward is from people because what you treasure is, is the praises of people. But if your attitude toward praying and alms-giving is good, only praying in your prayer closet, that your prayers in your prayer closet are only heard by Me in our one-on-one communion, and your prayers will be answered by Me. (Matthew 6:6) Christian traditions and customs are often of the flesh and carnal, instead of being of the Holy Spirit, and they remain powerless. When your traditions and customs follow what Jesus Christ taught about attitudes, then your rewards from My heaven will be great. Attitudes are mental and emotional actions that indicate the character and personality of a person. Your Father of Explicit Instructions

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