Have you ever engaged in competitive prayer? Perhaps you don’t think of prayer as a competitive event, but have you ever been in a meeting where prayers are offered publicly, and there seems to be a sense of escalation where one prayer tries to out-do the previous one? Does this make you wonder if the prayers are really directed to me or if they are for the benefit of others present? I have already addressed this matter, telling my followers not to pray as hypocrites for the purpose of being seen by men, but to enter into their closet, and pray in secret, and their Father in heaven would reward them openly. How many times do the gospels record that I went to a solitary place to pray?
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