{"id":96250,"date":"2025-10-29T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=96250"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:52:47","slug":"jesus-commandments-matthew-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=96250","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Commandments &#8211; Matthew 6:7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Matthew-6-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Matthew-6-7-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-986\" \/><\/a><strong>Matthew 6:7 (KJV)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cBut when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jesus warns His followers not to pray the way pagans or unbelievers do\u2014by repeating empty phrases or long, meaningless words, thinking that the length or volume of their prayer makes it more powerful. The key phrase \u201cvain repetitions\u201d means empty, mechanical, or insincere words\u2014prayers that come from the mouth but not the heart. Jesus emphasizes that God values sincerity over verbosity. Prayer should be heartfelt, humble, and rooted in faith, not performance or ritual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May my prayer be aimed to know You more<br \/>\nTo be in awe and wonder, to love and adore<br \/>\nNot filled with vain words or man\u2019s intelligence<br \/>\nBut with grateful tears and a heart of repentance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Father,<br \/>\nHelp me pray to know Your more. To realize my total dependence on Your provision and my Christ\u2019s sufficiency. Help me to sing to Jesus everyday. Thank you for Your grace. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod does not hear us for the arithmetic of our prayers, how many they are; nor for the rhetoric of our prayers, how elegant they are; but for the sincerity of them.\u201d \u2014 Thomas Brooks<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point of prayer is not to get answers from God, but to have perfect and complete oneness with Him.\u201d \u2014 Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 6:7 (KJV) \u201cBut when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.\u201d Jesus warns His followers not to pray the way pagans or unbelievers do\u2014by repeating empty phrases or long, meaningless words, thinking that the length or volume of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-p2q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96257,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96250\/revisions\/96257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}