Devotions with Pastor Dick Guilfoil

“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”      Matthew 6:6 

The main idea in the focus of religion is

• Your eyes are upon God.
• Not on men.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man or woman.
When you pray

• Go into your room
• Close the door to your room where no one knows you are praying and talk to God in secret.

Have no other motive than to know your Father in heaven.
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
But when ye pray use not vain repetitions . . . (v.7).
God does not hear us because we are in earnest,

• But only on the ground of Redemption.

God is never impressed by our earnestness.

• Prayer is not simply getting things from God
• Prayer is getting into perfect communion with God.

If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration,

• He will press forward in front of our common sense.
• He will change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

"Everyone that asks receives."
We pray pious babble, our will is not really in it, and
Then we say God does not answer; we never asked for anything.
"You shall ask what ye will," said Jesus.
Asking means our will is in it.
Whenever Jesus talked about prayer,

• He put it with the grand simplicity of a child:
• We bring in our critical temper and say - Yes, but . . .

Jesus said "Ask."
But remember:  We have to ask of God

• Things that are in keeping with the God Whom Jesus Christ revealed.

​Pastor Dick