17 Oct 2014
Matthew 6:7-8
Matthew 6:7: “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
This is another thing that God does not appreciate. When we pray we tend to say the same thing over, and over, and over… for years, as if God is deaf and senile and won’t hear us unless we ask Him repeatedly. We seem to think that if we bug Him enough He will eventually cave in just to shut us up. But as Jesus pointed out:
Matthew 6:8: “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”
God isn’t up there wondering what we need. He knows exactly what is going on – better than we do, actually. He is aware of our situation.