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.
- Chooses a Master.
- 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