In the teaching of Jesus in Matthew Chapter 6, He taught that three things must be done ins secret: 1. Almsgiving 2. Prayer 3. Fasting These three things are referred to by the Jews as "Personal Religion." Aside from the fact that these acts must be done "in secret," they have reward from "your Father in heaven." However, these three things are under attack by Satan. His tool is the Pentecostal Movement. He found the leaders to be a handy tool in his hand to bastardize, corrupt and destroy these things so as to rob believers of the reward from the father in heaven That is why Jesus warned us to TAKE HEED HOW we do these things, so that we will not fall victim of Satan through his agents many of who parades as pastors. Unfortunately, many believers do these three things wrongly: - We give alms to the wrong people (mostly the leaders rather than the poor and the needy) - We pray as "hypocrites and heathens" without even knowing. This is sometimes to satisfy the Penterascal leaders who ignorantly or selfishly co-opt their members into wrong prayer style, just to keep them coming and keep giving). - We fast wrongly Satan seems to be winning using these greedy Penterascals. He has in turn rewarded and blessed them with mammon along with fame, power, and lack of conscience and compassion. They impoverish, bleed and fleece the people in order to maintain their ostentatious and lavish lifestyle. Paul call them "enemies of the cross of Christ." They get people busy with various programs and various prayer meetings assuring the people of God's blessings and protecting, whereas they themselves use police protecting and do business to make money. Despite that Almsgiving was cardinal to the early Christians, even from the Old Testament, it has totally disappeared completely from the pulpit today no thanks to these Penterascals who have turned all givings to themselves leaving the givers poor and the poor poorer. Many of these cold-heated leaders only use prayer as a tool to keep people busy with God while they reap the blessing of keeping them praying, albeit, wrongly. They have turned many believers to the hypocrites and heathen Jesus warned us not to be in prayer like. It's time to unlearn many things taught by these leaders with the sole strategy to make money and enrich themselves. If the disicples of Jesus asked Jesus to teach them how to pray after seeing Jesus praying, even though some of them have been praying before Jesus was born, it means that prayer is a science and a art that has to be learned. It means there is an "HOW TO PRAY" and there is an "HOW NOT PRAY." It's time to learn the right way to pray.
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