The mass indoctrination program continues today as bro Eli further taught us about prayer.
Romans 12:9. Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good.
John 9:31. We know that God does not listen to sinners; he does listen to people who respect him and do what he wants them to do.
In every thing and act that we perform God word should be our weighting scale. No matter how right, that act might look to us has long as it is against God's word we should not perform it or get involve, we should avoid every evil act and character because God is against it and hate people that perform should act.
Proverbs 15:8. The LORD is pleased when good people pray, but hates the sacrifices that the wicked bring him.
*Matthew 6:7. When you pray, do not use a lot of meaningless words, as the pagans do, who think that their gods will hear them because their prayers are long.
Prayer is part of the commandments given to us by our lord Jesus Christ. God loves the prayer of the upright we should flee for every act that is evil and against God word, God is always ready to answer us if we pray in the right manner.
God will not judge whether to answer us or not by the length of our prayers or how often we disturb him with the same word in fact God hate repetitive prayer our prayers should be straight to the point and precise. Using the rosary to pray is bad and we should not be involved in it, if we go through the Bible from Genesis to revelation, we will not find the rosary in it because the rosary is not from God and it only came into existence after 1200 years that Christ left the earth. Using the rosary to pray make us pray repetitively which is against the word of God and again it was invented by man and when praying we should not worship or use anything from man to pray.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-2. Be careful about going to the Temple. It is better to go there to learn than to offer sacrifices like foolish people who don't know right from wrong.2. Think before you speak, and don't make any rash promises to God. He is in heaven and you are on earth, so don't say any more than you have to.
God will never force us to make any vow, all the vows we make are voluntary, we should try all our best to fulfill it. If we don't make a vow we have not done anything wrong but if we do and don't fulfill it, it is now accounted as a sin. When making a vow we should think about how we are going to fulfill it well.
*Matthew 6:5. When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites! They love to stand up and pray in the houses of worship and on the street corners, so that everyone will see them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.6. But when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.
Mark 11:25 And when you stand and pray, forgive anything you may have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will forgive the wrongs you have done.
When we come to God in prayer we should forgive all those that offend us and come with a clean heart. The state of our heart matters when we pray, if we pray for people to know we are praying we got no reward from such prayer because it is against the doctrine. Prayer should be between us and our heavenly Father, no matter how low our voices are and the circumstances surrounding us God is capable of hearing and answering us. This particular act is common in Africa when people shout and wake up there neighbors all in the name of praying it is wrong and if we are involved in such act we should stop it.
Act 20:36. When Paul finished, he knelt down with them and prayed.
Psalm 95:6. Come, let us bow down and worship him; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
The right manner of praying is to bow down and pray although God permit other forms of prayers if our health, circumstances and situations does not permit us to bow down but when we want to pray in our house or place that we can bow down we should bow down and pray and not use any other posture.
I Corinthians 11:3-5. But I want you to understand that Christ is supreme over every man, the husband is supreme over his wife, and God is supreme over Christ.4. So a man who prays or proclaims God's message in public worship with his head covered disgraces Christ.5. And any woman who prays or proclaims God's message in public worship with nothing on her head disgraces her husband; there is no difference between her and a woman whose head has been shaved.
In the hierarch of power or authority God is the highest follow by Christ, then the man and the least is the woman. The woman should be submissive to the man and the man should love and care for the women the same way Christ love him.
I can't explain everything bro Eli taught us with the help of God over his life that why am inviting you to join us and listen also to the undiluted teaching of our lord Jesus Christ by 12pm Nigeria time on Monday next week. We will be expecting you.