reduction in leg swelling...

 Background: Diseases of the venous system are widespread disorders sometimes associated with modern civilisation and are among the major concerns of social and occupational medicine. This study was carried out to compare the efficacy (oedema reduction) and safety of compression stockings class Il and dried horse chestnut seed extract (HCSE, 50 mg aescin, twice daily). 

Methods: Equivalence of both therapies was examined in a novel hierarchical statistical design in 240 patients with chronic venous insufficiency. Patients were treated over a period of 12 weeks in a randomised, partially blinded, placebo-controlled, parallel study design. 

Findings: Lower leg volume of the more severely affected limb decreased on average by 43.8 mL (n= 95) with HCSE and 46.7 mL (n =99) with compression therapy, while it increased by 9.8 mL with placebo (n = 46) after 12 weeks therapy for the intention-to-treat group (95% CI: HCSE:21.1-66.4; compression: 30.4-63.0; placebo: 40.0-20.4). Significant oedema reductions were achieved by HCSE (p =0.005) and compression (p =0.002) compared to placebo, and the two therapies were shown to be equivalent (p =0.001); in this design, however, compression could not be proven as standard with regard to oedema reduction in the statistical test procedure. Both HCSE and compression therapy were well tolerated and no serious treatment-related events were reported. 

This seed outperforms and swelling in the leg, is Aesculus Hippocastanum.  AESCULUS  HIPPOCASTANUM 

Efficacy, routine effectiveness, and safety of horsechestnut seed extract in the treatment of chronic venous insufficiency A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and large observational studies 

Abstract 

Safe and effective oral therapies for chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) would provide an important alternative to mechanical compression treatment. Several narrative reviews and one systematic review have summarized the efficacy of horse chestnut seed extract (HCSE), but to our knowledge no systematic review has included data from both randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and large-scale observational studies regarding outcomes as well as adverse events. Using a systematic literature search, we identified 13 RCTs of CVI (1,051 patients) and 3 observational studies (10,725 patients) that met our inclusion criteria. Examined outcomes were leg volume, ankle and calf circumference, edema, pain, sensation of tension, swelling, leg fatigue/heaviness, calf cramps, and itching. Random and fixed effect models were used to pool outcomes and adverse events separately for RCTs and observational studies. Overall, the RCTs indicated that HCSE improved symptoms in patients with CVI. Compared to placebo, HCSE reduced leg volume by 46.4 ml (95% CI, 11.3-81.4 ml) and increased the likelihood of improvement in leg pain 4.1-fold (95% CI, 0.98-16.8). Similarly, improvement probabilities were increased 1.5-fold (95% CI,1.2-1.9) for edema and 1.7-fold (95% CI, 0.01-3.0) for  itching. There was insufficient evidence to  demonstrate HCSE's effect on leg  fatigue/heaviness or calf cramps. Observational  studies showed significant effectiveness regarding  pain, edema, and leg fatigue/heaviness. No severe adverse events were reported, and HCSE did not significantly increase mild adverse events. Based on meta-analysis 

NO SECRET PLACE; NO PUBLIC POWER

 NO SECRET PLACE 

NO PUBLIC POWER 

THE SECRET TO SPENDING MORE TIME WITH GOD 

 

The truth about the "Secret Place" 

How Jesus accessed hidden spiritual resources 

Why intimacy with God produces public authority 

How to rebuild your private fellowship with the Father 

This is not religion. 

This is the legal reality of the New Creation.

The Wonderful Name of Jesus: How He Obtained lt (Inherited, Bestowed, Conquered)

There is a name that commands the absolute, undivided attention of every being in the unseen universe. Most believers use this name as a religious "amen"- a punctuation mark to signal the talking is over. 

But one preacher reveals a staggering legal secret in The Wonderful Name of Jesus: Jesus obtained His Name through three specific legal avenues. 

HOW JESUS CHRIST GOT HIS NAME: 

1. INHERITED - Hebrews 1:4: He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." By right of birth, nature, and eternal lineage, the NAME that belongs to the Father, YAHWEH, belongs to the Son, YAHSUA, . This is not a title given to an employee - it's a nature shared with a Child. 

2. BESTOWED - Philippians 2:9-10: "God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name." After Jesus fulfilled the work of Redemption, the Father officially bestowed the Name as a reward. This was the Public Investiture-the Father saying to the universe, "This Name carries My full Power of Attorney." 

3. CONQUERED - Colossians 2:15: "Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly." Jesus won His Name through legal conquest. He descended into the strongholds of darkness, stripped Satan of authority, took the keys of death and hell (Revelation 1:18), and was awarded the Name above every name as a BattleTrophy. 

WHY THE NAME WAS GIVEN TO YOU: 

Romans 8:17 - You are a joint-heir with Christ. You didn't fight the battle, but you get to use the authority of the Victor. This is your Power of Attorney-the Check signed by the Blood that you present to the bank of Heaven. 

The Holy Spirit is the Administrator. When you command sickness to leave in the Name of Jesus, the Spirit enforces that command. He doesn't look at your worthiness -He looks at the Name. 

Mental Assent admires the Name. Revelation Faith USES the Name. 

 Key Scriptures: Hebrews 1:4 ; Philippians 2:7, 2:9-10; John 1:14 ;1 Timothy 2:5 ; Colossians 2:15 ; Revelation 1:18 ; Romans 8:17, 8:21; John 3:8 ; Matthew 8:9 ; 2 Corinthians 5:17 

🗣️: "I HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO THE NAME OF JESUS"

Saint of God , The Secret Lies In Your Spirit Consciousness.

... trying to see if it works. But if you say, "In the name of Jesus, I command this body to be whole." You are operating in the law of the new creation. You are authorizing the master workman to do his job. You are giving the Holy Spirit the legal material he needs to change your ...

... the fullness of the revelation from Genesis to Revelation, all the 66 books of the Bible, this wonderful Old Testament and New Testament, as Jesus said, any scribe who can take out of his treasure, what is old, what is new. And that's where, brothers and sisters, apostle Paul is talking about this here. 

God has revealed to us by His Spirit the spiritual things are all the things of God. 

 For we for what man know the things of man say the spirit of man which is in him. Okay. Manly wisdom is take you somewhere. But he also the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God. 

Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit ...

... submersion of his consciousness his consciousness submerge me my consciousness then Jesus said I am in the Father and the Father in me l and my Father I'm not my own Father l am my Father I'm in the Father because Father's consciousness in me my consciousness in the Father, Father 's consciousness in me, my consciousness is Father and with that I have divine wisdom, divine knowledge, divine understanding what to do, how to do, when to do, where to do with the fear recognizing the Father. I always recognize my God, Jesus recognize the Father all the time. Not my will, your will. Recognizing initially Lucifer began to think with HIM, and then he began to think about HIM, think about God. Want to be worshipped as God. Hence his downfall, became Satan.  That's the religion of a method, a program, think about God and think about yourself and then the super ... past the super prophet becomes the kind of a superman to facilitate things and collect your money. 

 That's not what God designed for you. 

 God designed you and me to become a royal priesthood. A peculiar people, a holy nation, a chosen generation. 1:55:58 Every one of us, we are equal as far as we are called the sons of the living God.  So with that divine consciousness,  with that divine consciousness which already inbuilt The fear, divine fear, fear of God. My I have wisdom. Like apostle Paul says, we don't speak the wisdom of man, but we speak the wisdom of God. We speak the wisdom of God.  1 Corinthians chapter 2. 

 Beautiful. He presents it. He said we speak the wisdom of God. Chapter two.

 So brothers and sisters, the anointing, the unction, the anointing, the unction that God has given for you and for me , brings me divine wisdom, divine knowledge, divine understanding. And it brings me that I'm accountable to God.  I'm responsible. The anointing comes to the children of God, the sons and daughters of God and the servants of God. And the accounting anointing is a responsibility with accountability.  I have to return to God what he has given to me. Use it. Well, use it and enhance it and give it back to God what God has given to me. 

 So when, brothers and sisters, with the fear of God that all my activation, my imagination, my visualization, my actualization, my thinking, my living, my walk, I walk with God. And that's why, brothers and sisters, when you come to the transaction as per Colossians chapter 1 , verse 13 ...

Colossians 1:13 states that God has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son. This verse emphasizes the transition from spiritual darkness to the light of Christ.

...where you're completely separated, sanctified and you are continuously in HIM and He is in you and you are thinking with HIM and the glory of God is manifested.  preparation of you and me for the transfiguration. 

 Let's pray. 🙏🏽 Wonderful Holy Father, we are indeed thankful to you for your grace and this wonderful moment. I present these people who listen to my message. This is not my message. 

 with great preparedness, divine anction and the holy anointing. What you have used my lips, my mouth, my tongue to present the truth to these people to receive it. Let it go in all his power to the chosen seed of God. Let them receive it in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Bless you and have wonderful week ahead in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

FORGIVEN & HEALED

 Healing and Pardon (Isaiah 33:24) 

Isaiah 33:24 promises that no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick,” and that the people dwelling there will be forgiven their iniquity.  This verse depicts a future state of perfect physical health and spiritual cleansing for God's people, often interpreted as a prophecy fulfilled in the Messiah’s reign or the eternal state.

and the inhabitant shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity Isaiah 33:24 healing and pardon a sermon delivered on Lord's Day this whole chapter was a gracious message from God to a people who were in extremis ( This Latin phrase often means "at the point of death," and also "in an extreme situation." Literally, in extremis is "in the farthest reaches." ) they were made to drink the foulest dregs of Sorrow through the invasion of the Assyrians the highways were waste the Wayfarer ceased the Earth mourned and languished Lebanon was ashamed and heed down Sharon was like a Wilderness and Bashan and Carmel shook off their fruits then did God Arise when the worst had come to the worst he laid bare his arm and brought Deliverance for his people is not this a general rule with God is it not a truth fraught with Comfort to any of you whose day has darken down into a Sevenfold midnight when nothing else is left you God remains and God Appears when all your own strength fails you your strength shall be to sit still while God arises into your arm every morning your salvation in the time of trouble l would encourage all who are in spiritual distress to gather Hope from this chapter since it is addressed to Zion in her sore Affliction if it be really so that the joys and blessings which are described in the passage before us come to a people who are driven to the last extremity why should not such blessings come to you we have often noted how the Lord Delights to look upon the poor and needy and comes with sunder to those who are in distress it is the way of the Lord to look in pity upon those who are cast down lift up your heart to him and cry unto him out of the depth let your prayer rise to his throne out of the low dungeon expect that he will be very pitiful and will have compassion upon you in your misery Jerusalem was on the brink of Destruction when the Lord answered the prayer of Hezekiah and smote the vast host of Assyria the Peril of Jerusalem serves as a dark background to bring out the brightness of my text the city might have been destroyed by pestilence through its sins but the Lord saith the inhabitant shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity the great result of God's gracious dealings with his afflicted people is that they glorify his holy name observe how in this chapter God Is Spoken of as being exalted for he dwelleth on High he is called The Glorious Lord truly our Lord never appear more glorious than in the eyes of those who are brought low and humbled in their own esteem their distresses out of which they are graciously delivered call upon them to exalt their saviour they hear a voice saying oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful Works to the children of men for he hath broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron instead our God get little praise in this Fair World which is a masterpiece of his skill for man refuses to adore creation ought to make our voices ring out Perpetual Psalms for it is full of Wonders Providence ought also to keep us always making music upon an instrument of 10 strings but alas we yield our praises to inferior workers we are ever backward  and slow in the Praises of the Lord will a man rob God yet do we rob him of his glory and so he brings us into Straits that he may display the Majesty of his grace and the Infinity of his power in rescuing us then are we moved to astonishment and adoration then we burst forth into a song as we abundantly utter the memory of his great goodness at sight of his amazing love we magnify the Lord and ask others to Magnify Him with us that we may exalt his name together this is as it should be let it be so now oh you that have tasted of the Lord's Rich Grace in The Hour of trouble praise him at this good hour let the Hallelujah of your soul go up to him in the courts of the Lord's house if you cannot speak out your praise Let it wait for God in Zion and unto him let the vow be performed Let Your expressive silence mean the praise which you cannot sound forth with your   tongue the Holy Spirit who maketh intercession in us with groanings that cannot be uttered will also put into us   Praises inexpressible by words as we saw in the reading of this chapter the prophet seems to take Wing as he  proceeds he rises from note to note as if like David he said lift up the  strain he makes each note more high more sweet more loud than those which preceded it for he sings unto Him that doeth great things for His people the climax is in this verse the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity one of the highest notes of Praise which we can ever raise unto God is that which tells of pardoning love note the opening of the 103rd Psalm bless the Lord oh my soul who forgive all thine iniquities who heal all thy diseases our text is another form of that verse the inhabitant shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity healing and  forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction and both bestowed on the Lord's people when they look not for them I shall speak upon our text thus if the Holy Spirit will help me first there is such a thing as present forgiveness the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity secondly with this forgiveness there comes the removal of the consequences of sin the there comes the removal of the consequences of sin the inhabitant shall not say I am sick and thirdly this makes a remarkable change in the language of the favored people the inhabitant shall not say I am sick they shall be so greatly blessed that their language shall lose its complaining tone they shall no longer sigh and lament they shall now have other things to talk about than their own infirmities and sufferings the inhabitant shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity first then beloved I introduce to you a topic upon which I am sure you have no question but still it may do you good to be confirmed in the acknowledged truth there is such a thing as the present forgiveness of sin the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity there must be a present conscious enjoyable pardon of sin else there would be no joy in the world for thoughtful Minds to the Thoughtless and careless there might be a flash in the pan a noisy mirth as the crackling of thorns under a pot but to the penitent to the serious to the careful where could there be a spark of Joy if sin were Unforgiven when we once begin to feel what sin is to discern its true nature and to understand the just punishment which must follow upon it we cannot rest under its condemnation though God should give us dainties from day today and clothe us in scarlet and fine linen and set us among the princes of the earth we should be restless we should be wretched as long as Sin preyed upon our heart sin this casts Darkness upon the sun eclipsing its Meridian light sin is the blast which Withers all the flowers of Life sin is the gall of bitterness a drop of it would turn an ocean of pleasure into wormwood sin would again blight Paradise could it be restored yeah it would turn Heaven into hell could it enter there sin is a burden which an awakened conscience cannot bear it crushes the spirit into the dust and threatens further to Bear it down even to the lowest hell but when sin is pardoned then our hymn which we have just now been singing leaps joyfully to our lips now oh joy my sins are pardoned is not this a necessary ingredient in that overflowing cup which the Lord puts to the lips of his redeemed ones therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through Jesus Christ Our Lord but without that justification there can be no peace and no enjoyment of Life Believers are spoken of as a blessed people who joy in God they bidden to Rejoice ever more the Apostle saith rejoice in the lord always and again I say rejoice such rejoicing would be impossible if sin were not pardoned and therefore we conclude that sin may be pardoned that it may be pardoned now and that we may know it if forgiveness is essential to a state of mind which we are exalted to exhibit then forgiveness may be enjoyed at this present hour further dear Brethren there must be forgiveness of sin else the main motive and Fountain of Love would be dried up forgiveness begets gratitude gratitude creates love and love brings forth Holiness she that wash the Saviour's feet with tears and wipe them with the hairs of her head would she have done it if she had not loved much because she felt that much had been forgiven her the Motive Power of action to a believing Man lies hard by the realization that God for Christ's sake had forgiven his iniquities when I see my Lord his own self bearing my sins in his own body on the tree and blotting out my faults   forever by his death then my spirit glows with love my eyes stream with tears my heart dedicates itself wholly to Jesus and my life begins to show the effect of my inward emotion sin forgiven leads to sin forsaken is it not so doubt whether you are forgiven and what can you do can you preach a gospel which has not brought you pardon can you go into the Sunday School to try and bring little children to a Christ who has not forgiven you your sins but understand that through the one great sacrifice your iniquities are forever pardoned and then you must love the great sacrifice and You Must Praise the Lord who gave him to die for your sins is not this the song of the perfected unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood unto him be glory forever and ever there must be a consciousness of forgiveness or our lives will be limp we weak purposeless it must be so that sin can be pardoned and that we can know it else we should be always in bondage through fear of death in what jeopardy should we stand every hour since we might at once sink into hell the prospect of death how terrible would it be to us if sin still accused us unto God many of us now contemplate the approach of death with a calm quiet patient of Hope as our years advance we are not distressed with the thought that the time of our departure draws daily nearer this world is not our rest and we do not desire to live always we anticipate the hour when we shall our body with our charge laid down and cease at once to work and live but how could this be if we enjoyed no sense of Pardon sin it has been my intense Delight to be with many members of this church in the hour of their departure and I have invariably found them rejoicing in hope I have sometimes heard them sing and I have joined in their Holy hymn more often I have heard their steady calm a vowel of their joy in the prospect of being forever with the Lord but how could this have been if sin had not been pardoned is not this true which we sing if sin be pardoned I'm secure death hath no sting beside the law gives sin its damning power but Christ my Ransom died the sting of death is sin and you cannot take away the sting of death if sin be not taken away there could be no looking forward with expectancy if there were no Acceptance in Christ it would be impossible to be in a strait as apostle Paul was when he said for I am in a strait between to having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better to be willing to be offered up and joyfully to say the time of my departure is at hand would be utterly impossible if Believers did not know and know of a certainty that their sins are all forgiven once we cried wash me and I shall be whiter than snow we were not in error in that prayer and now that we have been washed and have heard our Master say ye are clean every wit we are not  deluded we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have received the atonement we say at this hour oh Lord I will praise thee though thou was angry with me thine anger is turned away and thou comfort  me has not the Lord declared I even I am he that bloat out thy transgressions for my own sake and will not remember thy sins yes great Lord it is even so there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared there is a city whose inhabitants are forgiven their iniquities blessed be the Lord who passeth by the trespasses of his people once more there must be forgiveness for else the whole system of Grace would be a dead letter and its glorious privileges would be mere shells without a kernel where would be salvation itself without pardon how could we be saved from our sins if not forgiven what glorious gospel could there be if sin could not be cancelled we read of our Lord Jesus Christ that to as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name but how can we be Sons under  condemnation how shall I reckon myself to be a beloved child if my Father is still my judge and holds over me the Sword of Justice thy sins which are many are forgiven thee is necessary before the spirit of adoption can enter to make us cry Abba Father there is certainly no possibility of acceptance or justification while sin is unforgiven I have shown you already that there is no motive to seek sanctification if we are hopelessly condemned for sin what is even the gift of Christ himself if he does not put away our sin the whole of the blessings of the Gospel seem to me to have lost their charm unless first of all there is cleansing from all iniquity let us now bend our thoughts to a consideration of this great blessing as it is treated of in this chapter it is plainly promised in the text the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity nor is this a lone word the like is often declared I will not occupy your time by quoting the many passages of scripture in which the pardon of sin is expressly promised is it not in the Covenant I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more he that believeth is Justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses  my pardon is a promised blessing it is God's prerogative to forgive and he Delights to exercise it he saith expressly I will pardon them whom I reserve he hath pardoned he doth pardon he will pardon so stands the Covenant of Love if we wish to obtain this free pardon it will be granted an answer to prayer read the second verse Oh Lord be gracious unto us this is short but full there is sound Doctrine in that cry the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity is a suitable answer to that petition if you want pardon of him who is waiting to be gracious seek it it is to be had without money and without price by the man who wil stretch out his empty hand to take it it is all of Grace if thou wil have it God God is ready to Grant it in answer to thy  humble cry where sin abounded Grace doth much more abound the Lord Jesus is exalted on high to give repentance and remission of sins if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins go to your knees and see if the Lord will not be gracious unto you pardon is given in connection with the ex exaltation of God read the fifth verse the Lord is exalted he does not Grant this forgiveness until we begin to recognize that he is a great God and a savior we must see that he is great in his Justice and we must bow in penitence and honor that Justice and then we must get some thought of the greatness of his love in giving his son to die that he might justly forgive us the greatness of our Lord's compassion in passing by iniquity transgression and sin must be confessed or we shall never find pardon friend thou will never get Mercy for thy great Sin from a little God he must be a great God to thee or thou will never receive the great Mercy thou needed thou must learn to say of him  who is a god like unto thee that pardon and passed by transgression low thoughts of God create doubts of Pardon and doubt holds Us in bondage under sin but High thoughts of God beget hope in the soul and hope leads to confidence and confidence brings Assurance of forgiveness God grants pardon when men are humbled see the seventh verse their Valiant ones shall cry without the ambassadors of Peace shall weep bitterly crying and weeping are good preparations for pardon in the dust of self-abasement is the place for Hope Jeremiah saith of The Afflicted he put his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope God never pardons the proud he knows them a far off and has enough of them at a distance with the humble and contrite he dwells delighting to hear them honor his Lord by bemoaning their breaches of it when thou sayest God be merciful to me a sinner though thou dare not lift up thine eyes to Heaven The Eyes Of Heaven look down on thee Thou shalt go to thine house Justified if in God's house thou has confessed thyself to be condemned God grants this pardon also when the heart is searched read the 14th verse the sinners in Zion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire when we begin to examine ourselves to fear because of sin and to turn from all hypocrisy then the Lord will accept us there must be a laying aside of all insincerity a dealing with God in truth before the gracious God can put away our iniquity sincerity is is indispensable to Mercy how can the Lord be other than a devouring fire to hypocrites God will also pardon us when he is acknowledged to be our ruler and Lord look at the 22nd verse the Lord is our judge the Lord is our lawgiver the Lord is our King will thou have God to Reign Over thee if so he will forgive thee but if thou wil continue to Rebel his wrath shall abide upon thee how can thou receive the kiss of love if thou Dost not give the kiss of Allegiance kiss the son lest he be angry accept his Rule and he will accept thy prayer we must love his law or we cannot be discharged from its curse be willing to obey and he is ready to forgive he will also forgive us when we put our trust in him read the last Clause of the 2 second verse he will save us Faith must look for salvation from the Lord alone and then salvation will come to it oh how I wish that some poor heart here present would cry this morning he will save me I will take him to be my king and my lawgiver and I will believe for myself that he will save me it is that touch of personal faith which brinas peace to the the soul if thou will not

Let the Holy Spirit reveals as we read this loving kindness

 {This sharing is without comma or full stop. Read prayerfully and trusting the Holy Spirit to reveal as you read till the end ...}

true to us in the Covenant of his grace have we kept the pledge and  bonds which bind to his church and to his cause can we say as thou Hast walked in thy truth to me so have l walked in truth to thee if we have failed here I should not wonder it is because we have failed in the first part of the text our thoughts have not been enough with God and therefore our lives have not been true to him may we be helped in both parts of the text so that while our hearts feed upon his truth our feet may walk in his truth and we may be faithful Christians before the Lord Our God but time flies and I need space for  the third head which is the link which binds the two parts of the text together thy loving kindness is before mine eyes  I have walked in thy truth the one has been the consequence of the other because I thought much of  thy Love Therefore have I walked in thy truth our thoughts very greatly influence our actions it is questionable whether a man could long think on any subject without the course of his life being colored by  it like certain silk worms which yield silk colored according to the food they have fed on so our life gradually takes the tinge and hue of the thoughts to which we most accustom ourselves we have had in our police courts of late frequent instances of this boys have been studying literature of the Jack Shepherd and Dick Turpin order and they have become thieves of necessity men who have been deeply read in French novels beyond poetry and German metaphysics have become dissolute  and skeptical and none could wonder you cannot send the mind up the chimney and expect it to come down white whatever Road the thoughts Traverse all the faculties of manhood will go after them  so you see Brethren David had thought upon God's loving kindness and very soon his whole Spirit went after his thoughts and he walked in God's truth let me show you a little of this I will suppose this morning that you and I  are meditating upon the subject suggested let us set God's loving kindness before our eyes and one of its most striking points is its eternal eternity it is certain that God loved those whom he now loves Before Time began those who are the saved sons of God have not lately come into the possession of his love they were loved of him before the foundation stone of creation was laid it is a glorious Doctrine there is room for the soul to revel and riot with holy Delight in it Everlasting Love Love without beginning towards unworthy worms well now what comes of it why naturally the moment the heart gets into the enjoyment of it it cries I will walk in God's truth this great Doctrine leads me to receive other great doctrines I'm Not Afraid now of doctrinal knowledge if it be so that God has loved me before the world began and has blessed me with all spiritual blessings according as he chose me in Christ Jesus then I'm not afraid to consider the doctrine of the Covenant of Grace the doctrine of his foreknowledge and of his predestination and all the other doctrines that spring there from the brightness of this one gem has attracted me to enter into the minds of divine thought and I will seek henceforth to be conversant with the Deep things of God many would be much more sound in doctrine if they meditated more upon the eternity of divine loving kindness now turn that loving kindness round again get another view of it let  another ray of light flash from this diamond think of the freeness of it God's loving kindness to us was utterly   undeserved he loved us not because there was anything lovable about us but because he chose to do so he is an absolute Sovereign And he doeth as he Wills with his own it is because he will have mercy on whom he will have mercy that he has had mercy upon us unworthy did I say more unworthy was I than any least likely as it seemed of any of the sons of men to be a partaker of divine love if he so freely loved me what shall I say I must freely love him in return l cannot but reciprocate this love if I cannot love him as he loves me in degree yet will I at any rate love him as freely and willingly has he chosen me I choose him has he ordained 32:38 me that I should be saved my heart ordains that he shall be glorious and if there be anything that I can do to serve him let me know what it is for it must be it shall be done turn that loving kindness round again look at another side of it namely it certainty it is no fiction that God loves his people if you are believers in  Christ Jesus trusting alone to his merits God as surely loves you as he is God there is no question about the matter his Divine love is as certainly yours as his power is displayed in  creation well then let your obedience be real in return if he really loves me then will I really love him and truly serve him it shall not be talk and resolution and pretense there shall be that gift given even if I deny myself to give it there shall be that deed done whatever self-denial it may cost me the cross I will take up the singularity of being a Christian I will dare to encounter the persecution it will bring I will rejoice in the love of God to me shall produce obedience in my heart in return then again take another view of it set the loving kindness of God before your eyes and think of the faithfulness of it God's loving kindness never pauses a minute it has been as constant as the flight of time nevera moment but there has been love for that moment never an hour but there has been the hours portion of loving kindness you have often forgotten the Lord but he has never forgotten you you have turned aside from your Fidelity 10,000 times but he never once if he had dealt with you justly and not graciously he had long ago divorced you from his heart but you are as dear to him now as ever and you shall be dear to him when Heaven and Earth shall pass away well what then why then as constantly seek to serve him let every day have its Duty and let each day's Duty be your pleasure and privilege do not be  receiving without also giving out but as the Sovereign goodness of God comes to you without a pause and there are no miscarriages in divine grace so let there never be any forgetfulness negligence or delay in your gratitude and the obedience which springs of it I would like you to think of the   minuteness of God's loving kindness and how it goes into detail with us in Little Things much of our life's happiness depends upon little things happening rightly and if God ordained only the great events and left the little things to chance we should be very unhappy but the loving kindness of God while it guilds the whole landscape with the sunlight also has a beam for the tiniest insect and a ray for the eye of the smallest bird let our love to God also go into the minutest details let us be Earnest to be right in matters essential but let us not be indifferent to things non-essential as men call them God's loving kindness goes into detail so let my obedience do let gratitude to God permeate my  entire life let it flood the whole of my faculties let it saturate my adulthood through and through great God thy love surrounds me I breathe it I live upon it I shall die in it I shall live forever in it it shall make my eternal Bliss so would my soul in obedience give up herself her thoughts her Works her desires her judgment her tastes her everything to thy sweet love which is so wondrously embraced and encompassed me you see wondrously embraced and encompassed me you see there is a logical consistency between thinking of the love of God getting to see its details and attributes and the ordering of our life in the way of Truth the one is the natural cause from which the other is sure to Spring once more let me say when we are thinking upon God's loving kindness we must not forget what it is preparing for us within a short time you and I shall have faced the last article of death or Christ himself shall have come and we shall be forever with the Lord we have been washed in the blood of Jesus our souls have been renewed by the Holy Spirit and for us there is prepared and reserved a crown of life that fade not away way anticipate the triumphant hour when this head which often aches with weariness shall be encircled with the Crown of Glory think of the time when the hands that are worn with toil shall grasp the palm branch and the feet that are weary with this pilgrimage shall stand upon the sea of glass when our constant occupation shall be to glorify him who has uplifted us from the miry clay and set our feet upon a rock and established our goings forever all this loving kindness is prepared for us entailed upon us ordained for us and we are ordained to it by a decree which neither death nor Hell can change what then why then the trials of this life shall be treated as light afflictions which are but for a moment and if duty at any time involves these trials we will not take them into consideration but for the joy that is set before us will endure the cross despising the shame men of God God's loving kindness has prepared for you this Heritage inconceivable which heart cannot imagine and therefore tongue cannot express to you will you not for the sake of this be willing to be despised and be ready if need be to be spit upon and rejected from the Society of men why this me thinks it was that glistened in the martyr's eye there they stood at the stake all calm and confident though every bone was soon to be burned to Cinder and the whole frame of their bodies to become a mass of Agony the light that Shone in the martyr's eye was not the flame of the torch which kindled the but the light of the Everlasting Glory the joy that made glad their hearts was not that of obstinacy which hold fast  to its own way but it was the firmness of a soul that is one with the immortal Christ and anticipates being with God forever and ever the loving kindness of God before our eyes is that which can make us walk in God's truth though it be to prison and to death God grant us more of the Holy contemplation and we shall be quite certain to have more of holy consistent walking in the truth I have done when I have made two or three remarks I have set these things before you as they ought to be but things are not in this world as they should be there are some men who have the first part of the text at least they say they have but they despise the second they have set God's loving kindness before their eyes but do not walk in God's truth they talk about being God's elect God's beloved God's dear people alas some of them are dear at any price their lives being in many cases utterly inconsistent with their   profession what do we say of men or women who make the doctrines of Grace an excuse for little justness they have the doctrine of grace but not the grace of Doctrine what say we of them why what Paul said their damnation is just all their pretenses to soundness all their talk about Orthodoxy is so much wind nothing more without Holiness no man shall see the Lord the man who can cheat in business the man who can lie the man who is an unkind husband husband a bad father an Unholy man he may believe what he likes or disbelieve what he likes but he will be swept away from the presence of God and the glory of his power when he whose fan is in his hand shall Purge his flaw and gather the wheat into his Garner and burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire there are also men who say I have walked in God's truth but God's loving kindness is never before their eyes they boast about their admirable character but they never think upon the grace of God they indulge the Pharisee Spirit permit us to say to such that they know not what Spirit they are of that life of theirs which they think to be so blameless seems to be correct because they are blind if the light shine upon their actions they would discover their imperfections then would they find that they needed a Saviour and finding that they needed a saviour they might then be led to apply for one and find one but as long as they wrap themselves up in the notion that they are good and that they keep the law and have done so from their youth up we must remind them with all earnestness that they are shutting themselves out of Heaven they are denying to themselves all prospect of everlasting life for by the Works of the law there shall no flesh be justified we must be saved by grace and by grace  alone my last word is this Brethren depend upon it that you shall find each of you when you get dull and flagging in the practical part of your faith that the proper way to revive it is to think more than you have done upon the loving  kindness of God I do not know whether you ever feel stupid I do dreadfully when one gets a bad cold the mind feels terribly dead and dull some people are dull enough even when they are well but what they are when illness is added it were hard to say well then one says how can I consider myself to be a child of God why I cannot pray I kneel down and pour out what ought to be my desires but I'm afraid I do not desire them I read the Bible but it does not glow and glisten before my eyes as it once did I try to love God but do not seem to have any emotion left I'm like a dead log or stone what is the best way to quicken oneself when you have got to be just a mere inanimate mass and cannot awaken yourself into life of course the Holy Spirit is the quickener but what means shall we use why says one turn over your sins and begin to think of them well I have known some become more dead than they were before through that and the little life they had seemed to go out of them as they saw their transgressions I believe there is no  reflection that has so much under God's Holy Spirit of quickening power in it as a remembrance of the loving  kindness of the Lord I have said unto my soul Thou Art dull and heavy today my soul but Jesus did not love thee because of thy brightness and liveliness thou at any rate a desire not to be so dull who gave thee that was not it his own Grace that made thee hate thyself for being so dull and stupid and he loves thee just the same why then or ever l am aware my soul makes me like the Chariots of a mini before I have hardly got through a little meditation upon my Lord's love my love is kindled Dr Watts hit the mark when he said Come Holy Spirit Heavenly dove with all thy quickening Powers come shed abroad a Saviour's love and that shall Kindle ours if you doubt Christ's love to you you will not love him but remember that he still loves you believe it hold on to it and your love will revive and when thine eye of faith is dim still hold on Jesus sink or swim still at his footstool bow the knee and Israel's God thy help shall be if l am a dead soul and a lost soul and have not a grain of Grace and have everything that is bad about me stilI I will cling to the cross and say I will never depart from this place if I perish I will perish here light will come unto you again  and the joy of the Lord will return and your heart will were to find its own hardness depart and your dumb tongue shall sing and you though once so lame shall leap as a hart the Holy Ghost cause these meditations to be the means of   quickening our spirits for Christ's sake amen

After this manner therefore pray ye:

 Matthew Chapter 6

6:8 Be not ye therefore like 

unto them: for your Father 

knoweth what things ye 

have need of, before ye ask 

him. 

6:9 After this manner 

therefore pray ye: Our 

Father which art in heaven, 

Hallowed be thy name. 

6:10 Thy kingdom come. 

Thy will be done in earth, as 

it is in heaven. 

6:11 Give us this day our 

daily bread. 

6:12 And forgive us our 

debts, as we forgive our 

debtors. 

6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

The Lord's Prayer

…⁷And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard. ⁸ Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. ⁹So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.…

Cross References

Do not be like them,

Jeremiah 10:2

This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

Ephesians 4:17

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

for your Father knows

Matthew 10:29-31

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. / And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. / So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Psalm 139:1-4

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. / You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. / You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. …

Hebrews 4:13

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

what you need

Luke 12:30-31

For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them. / But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added unto you.

Philippians 4:19

And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 34:10

Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

before you ask Him.

Isaiah 65:24

Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

Daniel 9:20-23

While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain— / while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. / He instructed me and spoke with me, saying: “O Daniel, I have come now to give you insight and understanding. …

Acts 10:30-31

Cornelius answered: “Four days ago I was in my house praying at this, the ninth hour. Suddenly a man in radiant clothing stood before me / and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been remembered before God.

1 John 3:20

Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

Romans 8:26-27

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. / And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

1 Kings 8:39

be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—

Treasury of Scripture

Be not you therefore like to them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.

your.

Matthew 6:32

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Psalm 38:9

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Psalm 69:17-19

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily…

Matthew 6

1. Giving to the Needy

5. The Lord's Prayer

16. Proper Fasting

19. Store up Treasures in Heaven

25. Do Not Worry

33. but seek God's kingdom.

◄ Matthew 6:8 ►

New International Version Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. New Living Translation Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! English Standard Version Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Berean Standard Bible Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Berean Literal Bible Therefore do not be like them, for your? Father knows of what things you? have need before your? asking Him. King James Bible Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. New King James Version “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. New American Standard Bible So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. NASB 1995 “So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. NASB 1977 “Therefore do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need, before you ask Him. Legacy Standard Bible Therefore, do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Amplified Bible So do not be like them [praying as they do]; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Berean Annotated Bible Do not be like them, for your? Father {Pat?r} knows what you? need before you? ask Him. Christian Standard Bible Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him. Holman Christian Standard Bible Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him. American Standard Version Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. Contemporary English Version Don't be like them. Your Father knows what you need even before you ask. English Revised Version Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. GOD'S WORD® Translation Don't be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Good News Translation Do not be like them. Your Father already knows what you need before you ask him. International Standard Version Don't be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him. NET Bible Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. New Heart English Bible Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore be ye not like them: for your Father knoweth what things ye need before ye ask him. Weymouth New Testament Do not, however, imitate them; for your Father knows what things you need before ever you ask Him. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard Bible Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. World English Bible Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him. Literal Translations Literal Standard Version therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows those things that you have need of before your asking Him; Berean Literal Bible Therefore do not be like them, for your? Father knows of what things you? have need before your? asking Him. Young's Literal Translation be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him; Smith's Literal Translation Therefore make not yourselves like them: for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye ask him. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims Bible Be not you therefore like to them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before you ask him. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, do not choose to imitate them. For your Father knows what your needs may be, even before you ask him. New American Bible Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. New Revised Standard Version Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa Bible Therefore, do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need, before you ask him. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Therefore you shall not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. NT Translations Anderson New Testament Be not, therefore, like them; for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him. Godbey New Testament Therefore be not like unto them: for your Father knows of what things you have need, before you ask him. Haweis New Testament Be not ye therefore like them: for your Father knoweth of what things ye have need, before you ask him. Mace New Testament don't therefore imitate them: for your father knows what you want, before you ask him. Weymouth New Testament Do not, however, imitate them; for your Father knows what things you need before ever you ask Him. Worrell New Testament Be not, therefore, like them; for your Father knoweth of what things ye have need before ye ask Him. Worsley New Testament be not ye therefore like them; for your Father knoweth what ye have need of before ye ask Him. Study Bible Do not be like them This phrase refers to the preceding verses where Jesus warns against the practices of the hypocrites and pagans in their prayers. In the cultural context of the time, many religious leaders and pagans engaged in lengthy, repetitive prayers to be seen by others or to manipulate their gods. Jesus emphasizes a different approach, focusing on sincerity and humility. This teaching aligns with the broader biblical theme of God desiring genuine worship from the heart, as seen in passages like Isaiah 29:13, where God criticizes those who honor Him with their lips while their hearts are far from Him. for your Father knows This statement underscores the intimate relationship between God and believers, portraying God as a caring Father. The concept of God as Father is a central theme in the New Testament, highlighting His personal and loving nature. This contrasts with the distant and impersonal deities of the surrounding pagan cultures. The idea that God knows His children intimately is echoed in Psalm 139, where David speaks of God's complete knowledge of him. what you need This phrase emphasizes God's omniscience and His understanding of our true needs, not just our wants or desires. It reflects the biblical principle that God provides for His people, as seen in Philippians 4:19, where Paul assures that God will supply all needs according to His riches in glory. This assurance encourages believers to trust in God's provision and wisdom, rather than relying on their own understanding. before you ask Him This highlights God's foreknowledge and His proactive care for His children. It suggests that prayer is not about informing God of our needs but about aligning ourselves with His will and acknowledging our dependence on Him. This concept is supported by passages like Romans 8:26-27, where the Spirit intercedes for believers according to God's will. It also reflects the prophetic nature of God's knowledge, as seen in Isaiah 46:10, where God declares the end from the beginning. Persons / Places / Events 1. Jesus Christ The speaker of this verse, delivering the Sermon on the Mount, which is a foundational teaching of Christian ethics and spirituality. 2. The Disciples The primary audience of Jesus' teachings in the Sermon on the Mount, representing all followers of Christ. 3. The Father (GOD) Referred to by Jesus as the one who knows our needs, emphasizing a personal and intimate relationship with God. 4. The Gentiles Mentioned in the preceding verses as those who use many words in prayer, highlighting a contrast between their practices and the teachings of Jesus. 5. The Sermon on the Mount The setting of this teaching, a collection of Jesus' teachings found in Matthew chapters 5-7. Teaching Points Trust in God's Omniscience Recognize that God is fully aware of our needs, which should lead us to trust Him more deeply in our prayer life. Simplicity in Prayer Avoid vain repetitions and lengthy prayers for the sake of being heard by others. Instead, focus on sincere and heartfelt communication with God. Intimacy with the Father Embrace the personal relationship we have with God as our Father, which allows us to approach Him with confidence and openness. Faith in God's Provision Rest in the assurance that God, who knows our needs, is also faithful to provide for them according to His will and timing. Contrast with Worldly Practices Be mindful of the differences between Christian prayer and the practices of those who do not know God, ensuring our prayers reflect our faith and trust in Him. Bible Study Questions and Answers 1. What is the meaning of Matthew 6:8? 2. How does Matthew 6:8 encourage trust in God's knowledge of our needs? 3. What does "your Father knows what you need" reveal about God's character? 4. How can Matthew 6:8 deepen our prayer life and reliance on God? 5. Compare Matthew 6:8 with Philippians 4:19 on God's provision for needs. 6. How should Matthew 6:8 influence our approach to daily worries and concerns? 7. How does Matthew 6:8 challenge the need for repetitive prayer in Christian practice? 8. What does Matthew 6:8 reveal about God's omniscience and its implications for believers? 9. How does Matthew 6:8 influence the understanding of God's relationship with humanity? 10. What are the top 10 Lessons from Matthew 6? 11. Matthew 6:8: If God already knows our needs, why pray at all? 12. Is God all-knowing and all-powerful? 13. Psalm 139:1–4: How does God’s complete foreknowledge of every thought and word align with genuine human free will? What Does Matthew 6:8 Mean Do not be like them Jesus has just warned against two prayer pitfalls: the showy “hypocrites” (Matthew 6:5) and the word-heaping pagans (Matthew 6:7). When He says, “Do not be like them,” He is calling us to a distinct, heart-level communion with God. • Prayer is not a stage performance (Luke 18:10-14). • Nor is it a magic formula unlocked by many words (1 Kings 18:26-29 shows the futility of pagan repetition). • Instead, we are to “pray to your Father, who is unseen” (Matthew 6:6) and reject conformity to the world’s religious theatrics (Romans 12:2). for your Father Jesus roots the command in relationship. God is “your Father,” not an impersonal force. • Through faith in Christ we are adopted as His children (John 1:12; Romans 8:15). • A true Father invites honest, intimate conversation (Galatians 4:6: “God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!’”). • Recognizing Him as Father shifts prayer from obligation to family dialogue. knows what you need The Father’s knowledge is total and tender. • “O LORD, You have searched me and known me… even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it” (Psalm 139:1-4). • Like a caring dad, “the LORD is compassionate to those who fear Him, for He knows our frame” (Psalm 103:13-14). • Because He already understands every necessity, we can approach Him with confidence instead of anxiety (Philippians 4:19; 1 Peter 5:7). before you ask Him God’s foreknowledge does not cancel prayer; it clarifies its purpose. • “Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24) shows His readiness. • Prayer aligns our hearts with His will and opens us to receive what He already intends to give (Ephesians 3:20). • We still ask because asking expresses dependence and invites fellowship (James 4:2-3; Hebrews 4:16). summary Matthew 6:8 invites us to authentic, child-to-Father prayer. We refuse empty show or babbling because God is already attentive. As our loving Father, He fully understands every need even before we voice it, yet He welcomes us to ask, trust, and enjoy the relationship for which we were created. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (8) Your Father knoweth.--This truth is rightly made the ground of prayer in one of the noblest collects of the Prayer Book of the English Church--"Almighty God, the Fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking." Comp. St. Paul's "We know not what we should pray for as we ought" (Romans 8:26). But why then, it may be asked, pray at all? Why "make our requests known unto God" (Philippians 4:6)? Logically, it may be, the question never has been, and never can be, answered. As in the parallel question of foreknowledge and free will, we are brought into a region in which convictions that seem, each of them, axiomatic, appear to contradict each other. All that can be done is to suggest partial solutions of the problem. We bring our wants and desires to God (1) that we may see them as He sees them, judge how far they are selfish or capricious, how far they are in harmony with His will; (2) that we may, in the thought of that Presence and its infinite holiness, feel that all other prayers--those which are but the expression of wishes for earthly good, or deliverance from earthly evil--are of infinitely little moment as compared with deliverance from the penalty and the power of the sin which we have made our own; (3) that, conscious of our weakness, we may gain strength for the work and the conflict of life in communion with the Eternal, who is in very deed a "Power that makes for righteousness." These are, if we may so speak, the lines upon which the Lord's Prayer has been constructed, and all other prayers are excellent in proportion as they approach that pattern. Partial deviations from it, as in prayers for fine weather, for plenty, and for victory, are yet legitimate (though they drift in a wrong direction), as the natural utterance of natural wants, which, if repressed, would find expression in superstition or despair. It is better that even these petitions, though not the highest form of prayer, should be purified by their association with the highest, than that they should remain unuttered as passionate cravings or, it may be, murmuring regrets. Pulpit Commentary Verse 8. - Be not ye therefore like. Revised Version omits "ye," as the emphatic personal pronoun is not expressed. The connexion of thought is - Seeing you are expected to shun heathen error (Meyer), do not allow yourselves to reproduce heathen practices. By observing these you would be taking a definite way of becoming like (passive, or rather middle, ὁμοιωθῆτε) those who ordinarily practise them. For; i.e. you stand on a different footing altogether from the heathen; you are intimately related to One above, who knows your wants, even before you express them to him. Your Father; Revised Version margin, "some ancient authorities read God your Father." So אָ, B, sah. (ὁ Θεός is bracketed by Westcott and Hort). The insertion is at first sight suspicious, but as there is no trace of such an addition in vers. 1, 4, 6, 14. 18 (in ver. 32 only אָ), it is hard to see why it should have been interpolated here. Its omission, on the other hand, is easily accounted for by its absence in those passages. The internal evidence, therefore, corroborates the strong external evidence of אָ, B. Our Lord here said "God" to emphasize the majesty and power of "your Father." Knoweth; i.e. intuitively (οϊδεν); el. ver. 32. Greek [Do] not μὴ (mē) Adverb Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether. be like ὁμοιωθῆτε (homoiōthēte) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Passive - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 3666: To make like, liken; I compare. From homoios; to assimilate, i.e. Compare; passively, to become similar. them, αὐτοῖς (autois) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. for γὰρ (gar) Conjunction Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. your ὑμῶν (hymōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. Father Πατὴρ (Patēr) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'. knows οἶδεν (oiden) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate. what ὧν (hōn) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Neuter Plural Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that. you ἔχετε (echete) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold. need χρείαν (chreian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 5532: From the base of chraomai or chre; employment, i.e. An affair; also occasion, demand, requirement or destitution. before πρὸ (pro) Preposition Strong's 4253: A primary preposition; 'fore', i.e. In front of, prior to. you ὑμᾶς (hymas) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. ask αἰτῆσαι (aitēsai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active Strong's 154: To ask, request, petition, demand. Of uncertain derivation; to ask. Him. αὐτόν (auton) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

Matthew 6:8–13 — New International Version (2011) (NIV)

8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9 “This, then, is how you should pray:

“ ‘Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

10 your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.’

Matthew 6:8–13 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Matthew 6:8–13 — New Living Translation (NLT)

8 Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! 9 Pray like this:

Our Father in heaven,

may your name be kept holy.

10 May your Kingdom come soon.

May your will be done on earth,

as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today the food we need,

12 and forgive us our sins,

as we have forgiven those who sin against us.

13 And don’t let us yield to temptation,

but rescue us from the evil one.

Matthew 6:8–13 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

13  And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Matthew 6:8–13 — New Century Version (NCV)

8 Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him. 9 So when you pray, you should pray like this:

‘Our Father in heaven,

may your name always be kept holy.

10 May your kingdom come

and what you want be done,

here on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us the food we need for each day.

12 Forgive us for our sins,

just as we have forgiven those who sinned against us.

13 And do not cause us to be tempted,

but save us from the Evil One.’ The kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours forever. Amen.

Matthew 6:8–13 — American Standard Version (ASV)

8 Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Matthew 6:8–13 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

8 Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

9 Thus therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified, 10 let thy kingdom come, let thy will be done as in heaven so upon the earth; 11 give us to-day our needed bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors, 13 and lead us not into temptation, but save us from evil.

Matthew 6:8–13 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

8 Don’t be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 

9 “This is how you should pray: 

Our Father in heaven, 

let your name be kept holy. 

10 Let your kingdom come. 

Let your will be done on earth 

as it is done in heaven. 

11 Give us our daily bread today. 

12 Forgive us as we forgive others. 

13 Don’t allow us to be tempted. 

Instead, rescue us from the evil one.

Matthew 6:8–13 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

8 Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.

9 “Therefore, you should pray like this:

Our Father in heaven,

Your name be honored as holy.

10 Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And do not bring us into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.

[For Yours is the kingdom and the power

and the glory forever. Amen.]

Matthew 6:8–13 — New Revised Standard Version: Updated Edition (NRSVue)

8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9 “Pray, then, in this way:

Our Father in heaven,

may your name be revered as holy.

10 May your kingdom come.

May your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And do not bring us to the time of trial,

but rescue us from the evil one.

Matthew 6:8–13 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

8 Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Therefore you pray in this way:

“Our Father who is in heaven,

may your name be treated as holy.

10 May your kingdom come,

may your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread,

12 and forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And do not bring us into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.

Matthew 6:8–13 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

8 Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need even before you ask him.

9 “This is how you should pray.

“ ‘Our Father in heaven,

may your name be honored.

10 May your kingdom come.

May what you want to happen be done

on earth as it is done in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread.

12 Forgive us our sins,

just as we also have forgiven those who sin against us.

13 Keep us from falling into sin when we are tempted.

Save us from the evil one.’

Matthew 6:8–13 — New American Standard Bible (1995) (NASB95)

8 “So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

9 “Pray, then, in this way:

‘Our Father who is in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 ‘Your kingdom come.

Your will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.

12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’