Matthew 6:7
When you pray, don't babble on meaninglessly like the foreigners do, who think they will be heard because of all the words they repeat.
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8Don't be like them, for your Father knows what you need even before you ask him.
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1 Kings 18:26So they took the bull provided and prepared it. Then they called on Baal by name from morning until noon. “Baal, answer us!” they pleaded. But no voice was heard, no one answered. They hobbled in a dance around the altar they had made.
Ecclesiastes 5:7There are certainly many dreams, questions of meaning, and lots of different ideas, but you are to follow God.
Matthew 6:32These are all the things that the heathen chase after, but your heavenly Father knows everything you need.
Matthew 26:39He went a little farther forward, fell facedown, and prayed. “My Father, please, if it's possible, let this cup of suffering be taken from me,” Jesus asked. “Even so, may it not be what I want but what you want.”
Matthew 26:44So he left them once more, and went off and prayed a third time, repeating the same things.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:6-9
The Sermon on the Mount. 5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they… Read the whole commentary →