Here's another piece of the Sermon on the Mount:
So how to reconcile this passage with that, what Christ himself said a few moments earlier on the same mountain ? Why ask the Father, since it knows what we need? But Jesus himself set an example that you should pray. He taught us even words. Prayer, however, is no passive waiting for grace, but an active wybieganiem the future. By expressing the request, declare the action to its fulfillment. As long as we ask, we act, we will knock at the people's hearts, until we open. We look for good gifts among the people, until we find it.
By request we make a decision. We give an expression of what we want. Therefore, we do not ask, here is what we need, because it is known to our Father. That will ensure our instinct, our nature. Our thoughts and reason, we refer to what we can give to the world, and not what we learned from it. If we ask for the kingdom of heaven, we will pursue them, and thus it will settle in our hearts and in our world. From his perspective we look at the world in which we want to give, not take.
Ask and you shall receive, seek, and ye shall find; knock and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and knocks open. of you whom if his son asks for bread, is one that will give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him.
So how to reconcile this passage with that, what Christ himself said a few moments earlier on the same mountain ? Why ask the Father, since it knows what we need? But Jesus himself set an example that you should pray. He taught us even words. Prayer, however, is no passive waiting for grace, but an active wybieganiem the future. By expressing the request, declare the action to its fulfillment. As long as we ask, we act, we will knock at the people's hearts, until we open. We look for good gifts among the people, until we find it.
By request we make a decision. We give an expression of what we want. Therefore, we do not ask, here is what we need, because it is known to our Father. That will ensure our instinct, our nature. Our thoughts and reason, we refer to what we can give to the world, and not what we learned from it. If we ask for the kingdom of heaven, we will pursue them, and thus it will settle in our hearts and in our world. From his perspective we look at the world in which we want to give, not take.
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