Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: “”Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: “”Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.” Matthew 7:6 ESV OBSERVATION: In the day this was written, dogs were seen as scavengers rather than pets. They cleaned up the scraps thrown out. So no one gave the best to the dogs. Pigs were wild and known for just rooting in the mud, dangerous, and...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: “”Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: “”No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:24‬ ‭ESV‬‬ OBSERVATION: Why use the phrase “two masters” when talking about God and money. Can’t one be your master and the other something you use. I think the key to this is in the word used for...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: “”The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:22-23‬ ‭ESV‬‬ OBSERVATION: We see with our eyes. It is not only what we see, but how we perceive what we see that makes the difference...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:19-21‬ ‭ESV‬‬ OBSERVATION: To “lay up … treasures” here speaks of...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: “”And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer SCRIPTURE: ““If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:14-15‬ ‭NLT‬‬ OBSERVATION: This is an emphasis on the last part of the lord’s model prayer. Our Lord and savior loved us so much that he was willing to endure the scourging and death on the cross so that we could be...