Mass Indoctrination Session Day 3- Prayer : 12th January 2022

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Hello everyone at MCGI community. I'm excited to have joined this community and to share my first video after joining the mass Indoctrination Bible studies session on zoom. Today was about examining false doctrines about prayer which through the teachungs of Brother Eli we discovered how people pray amiss and learned about the right way fo praying.

I'm glad that he made us aware that in everything we will learn, the Bible should be our standard for learning. Studying the Bible and pointing out false doctrines can rightly be done by comparing it with comparing what the Bible says. Ecclessiatics 7:27

In 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22, We are told to prove all things, abstain from evil and cleave to what is good. Romans 12:9 says the same and so it is our duty as Christians to find out what is true using the word of God as a standard.

We will always turn to God throughout our life, especially in times of need or hardship, and one way of doing so is through prayer. Praying is a mandate from Christ, thus it's critical that we follow it and do it the right way.

Important points we have learned from God's word discussed in the Zoom meeting:

God Does Not Hear the Prayer of Sinners

Many people pray amiss. An example of such prayer is a prayer from a sinner. John 9:31. God hearers not sinners, if you admire sin your prayers will be hindered. Living in sin will not make God hear your prayers. God isn't pleased with the prayers of the wicked but God hears the upright. if an upright person prays God is pleased is stated in Proverbs 15:8. Therefore we should learn to live right for God in order for our prayers to be accepted.

We Should Avoid Vain Repetition in Prayer
In Matthew 6:6-8 Jesus told the early disciples to avoid praying using vain repetition like those who pray in the name of Mary using the rosary or prayer beads and the Apostle's creed. Praying with rosary is not according to the Bible, we understood. Christ would have thought about anything like the rosary in connection to prayer while he was on earth. We should avoid repetition because before we pray the father already know about what we are about to ask. Isaiah 65:24 tells us that even before we call God, He will answer and even before we say anything he will hear and so there is not need repeating our words for God is not deaf nor dumb. It is only the heathen who practice that in prayer which is a wrong way of praying. God can hear us when we pray and that is why Christ said we should not repeat our words when we pray in Mathew 6:8. Our words in prayer should therefore be few whenever we pray, Ecclesiastics 5:2 talked about speaking few words in prayer.

We should Avoid Praying to Show Off
Again praying to show off is praying amiss. This is a wrong way of praying. it is clear from Matthew 6:5-6 that prayer should be done in private. It is a private communication between you and God. Many who pray openly is prohibited by God. Again praying in good posture should be practiced in prayer. We should kneel down when praying but if we cannot we should not be like the hypocrites praying standing to be seen. In Matthew 26:39 when the Lord prayed in the Garden, he knelt down or fell on his face and prayed. In Acts 20:36, the early Christians when praying kneel down. We are free to pray standing but praying by kneeling or bowing down is a more preferred way of showing respect to God.

Men Should avoid Covering their head when praying and women should Cover their Head
Covering is also another issue that many practice in many nations of the world are are ignorant of what they Bible says concerning the practice. A man praying according to the Bible (1 Corinthians 11:4) should not cover his head. Woman who have no covering on their head dishonours God. God is not pleased if you are praying this way. 1 Corinthians 11:3 teaches more why we the scripture commanded us concerning head covering. The head of the man is christ and the head of the woman is the man. The symbol of a woman head is a respect to the man.

Old belief That was Improved By Listening To The Bible Studies

Personally, I knew that prayer can be done in any kind of posture but after listening to studies by brother Eli I understood that what kneeling in prayer mean and discovered that it is the right way of showing more respect and honour to God whenever we approach Him in prayer.

How the Study Can Make Us a Better Person That We Can Use In Our Daily Lives
In all the teachings, I was happy to hear brother Eli emphasising that the teaching is not about forcing anyone to accept the doctrine right away but it's about what is in our Bible which is our standard for comparing doctrines and for knowing about any false doctrine. This is a good example of a teacher who wants us to learn to discover God's truth from the Scriptures and not what someone may teach us. A lot of people love to pray but pray amiss and I'm happy that the studies has helped to point some of the things people do wrongly in prayer and I'm sure we will be pleasing God and having answers to prayers if we stick to the right way of praying as we studied and as proven with scriptures. Hoping to join for the continuation of the mass Indoctrination Session tomorrow. Thanks for your attention and for reading.

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Welcome, great to see your first participation in our community. Hopefully, we can always join in our Zoom meeting gathering. God bless you

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Thanks be to God for listening on our meeting.

MCGI Cares (Hive) community's main mission is to share the words of God, not the Hive upvotes. If we get upvotes, please treat it as just a bonus. Do not focus mainly on material things as the bible is teaching us not to look at things seen but rather focus our eyes on things not seen.

II CORINTHIANS 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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Thanks for the opportunity to study God's word and also for the support, I'm grateful

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