Description

Fast Offerings

• Alms - Money or food given to the poor.
• Verses 1-5
  • How we should give to others.

How to Pray

• Verse 6-8
  • Do so in private calling upon our Heavenly Father.

The Lord's Prayer

• Check out Matthew 6:9 footnote a.
• These isn’t something we are to repeat - it is something we should use as a guide for our own prayers.
• Recognize Him.
• Let Him know our needs
• Ask for forgiveness
• Ask for help.

How to Fast

• Verses 16-18
• Do so in private.
• Be a Light.
  • Verse 20-23
• Chooses a Master.
  • Verses
• Consider the Lilies
  • Verses 28-34
  • We will be taken care of.
  • He knows our needs.
  • He will provide if we have faith in Him.
  • Trust Him to know me and my needs and that He will take care of all of them for me.

Matthew 7

• Verses 1-11 are basically all JST.
• Verse 7 and 8, do not have a JST.
  • ASK - Given
  • SEEK - Find
  • KNOCK - Open
• Verses 14-21
  • False prophets
    • Hypocrites
    • Guile
    • Go against prophet
    • Go against God's teachings
    • Social Media - THIS IS NOT WHERE WE GO FOR KNOWLEDGE!!!
• Verse 21-29
  • Wise man and foolish man.
  • We can stand against everything that is thrown at us when our foundation is Jesus Christ. He is what will give us power to endure the hard things in this life.
  • President Nelson has told us we need to believe. If we only have a desire to believe, we are still building that rock foundation.
  • Desire to believe - nelson