It was great today, at MASS INDOCTRINATION DAY 3 and I was really blessed. Calling upon God or praying is one of the doctrine of Jesus Christ, praying is a commandment of Christ. According to John the apostle of Christ Jesus in the bible God hear not the prayers of the sinner John 9:3 if the person praying is evil, or do evil God does not listen to it. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Father in heaven, so many prayers are just in vein .
Prove all things hold that which is good and abstain from all which is evil, and let love be with all dissimulation, for this is the act and the process of being good, But when a righteous person prayed to God,God is pleased. According to Matthew 6:8 "When you pray do not pray in repetition for our Father in heaven before we pray he knows what is in our mind" He said before you call i will answer, these are the promises of God to us. Isaiah 65:24 made us understand that While thy are yet speaking I will hear. Therefore breathen, to pray repetitively is against the commandment of God. Ecclesiastes 5:1said "Be more ready to hear than to keep the sacrifice of a fool". Matthew 6:6 "Pray to the Father in secret because prayer is a private matter between us and the father so that the father who sees in secret will reward you openly.so it is prohibited by Christ that when we pray we show it off to men, pray to God Lord your father in secret.
Prayer is the way we communicate to God we pray to God secretly and not openly and he will be the one to bless us openly. It is prohibited by Christ to pray openly, when you pray go inside and shot your door, and pray to God in secret. Do not pray like the hypocrite who pray While standing so that people will see them pray. There's a provision in the Bible to pray while standing but you don't have to do that openly or with the mindset of the hypocrite. You have to kneel down horizontally and your face will be pointing towards the ground.
Some Bible passages that was read include:
Matthew 6:5-6
Ecclesiastes 7:27
Mark 11:25
I thessalonian 5:21
John 9:3
Romans 12:29
John 9:31
Isaiah 65:24.