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Scriptures Referenced

13. Practice secret disciplines (giving, praying, fasting)—Matthew 6:1-18 
Matthew 6:1-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)

Giving to the Poor and Prayer
1 “Be [very] careful not to do your [a]good deeds publicly,
to be seen by men; otherwise you will have no reward
[prepared and awaiting you] with your Father who is in heaven.

2 “So whenever you give to the poor and do acts of kindness,
do not blow a trumpet before you [to advertise it],
as the hypocrites do [like actors acting out a role] in the synagogues
and in the streets, so that they may be honored and
recognized and praised by men. I assure you and
most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.

3 But when you give to the poor and do acts of kindness,
do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
[give in complete secrecy],

4 so that your charitable acts will be done in secret;
and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you.

5 “Also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites;
for they love to pray [publicly] standing in the synagogues
and on the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men.
I assure you and most solemnly say to you,
they [already] have their reward in full.

6 But when you pray, go into your most private room,
close the door and pray to your Father who is in secret,
and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you.

7 “And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition
as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard
because of their many words.

8 So do not be like them [praying as they do];
for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

9 “Pray, then, [b]in this way:

‘Our Father who is in heaven,

[c]

00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the Power of Christ Daily 25 February 2016 Practice secret disciplines Practice secret disciplines. This title was what was given on the website. Remember we are doing the 50 commands of
Jesus Christ that they have collected.

00:17 It may not be perfect, it may be some 50 something or not, it doesn’t matter. We will use that because even we know some of these commandments and we obey. Brothers and sisters, the effect, the powerful benefit for each of us just have to obey the
words of Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Master, husband of our soul, the one who suffered and died and rose again, even went to hell for me.

00:44 Oh I find this brothers and sisters, as I said in the graceoflife.com there is this download mp3 you can download whereby the words of Jesus have been put into a one hour cd. You just play it on and on, download it and play it on and on. In your
room thinking and meditating on what Jesus words are, we find tremendous benefit.

01:10 And also play it for your children. You will find it tremendous benefit because it goes into the spirit. Even when you are not meditating on it, even when you are sleeping, your spirit man is still absorbing it.

01:21 Your spirit man is absorbing it. Your children’s spirit man is absorbing it. And it will happen.

01:26 The spirit of God will then use it to move us. Brothers and sisters, listening to the word of God is an important good thing for us. It’s a good thing.

01:38 It’s a useful thing. The Word of God will change us from inside us. Brothers and sisters, this title given by this website and then it’s a very long scripture.

01:48 Here it is. Matthew 6:1 18. We’ll do as much as we can today because we need to get to the understanding behind these things and behind what’s happening in the world.

01:58 Brothers, first of all is a subtitle to that is saying Giving to the poor and prayer. Giving to the poor and prayer. Be very careful.

02:07 Matthew 6:1 Be very careful not to do your good deeds publicly to be seen by men. And otherwise you will have no reward. No reward prepared and waiting for you.

02:18 In bracket it says this is the amplified version with your Father who is in heaven. Be very careful. He says amplified.

02:25 It’s not just be careful. Amplify saying be very careful. Because when they look at the Greek and the Hebrew translations, the impact on the word While the simple English word be careful, the actual meaning is be very, very careful.

02:41 Be extremely careful not to do your good deeds publicly to be seen by men. Otherwise you will have no reward prepared and awaiting you with your Father who is in heaven. 2 so whenever you give to the poor, do acts of kindness, do not blow a trumpet
before you to advertise it as a hypocrite.

03:04 Do the hypocrites, they define this as like actors acting out a role in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may be honoured and recognized and praised by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you they already have their reward in
full. So now 2 is saying, so whenever you give to the poor and do acts of kindness, do not blow a trumpet before you to advertise it as like hypocrites, do like actors acting out a role in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may be
honored and recognized and praised by men.

03:14 I assure you and most honestly say to you they already have their reward in full. Where the reward, the people say, oh, this person is so kind, so good, he’s doing this for the poor, he’s doing this. So when you begin to do this with this intention
and you blow trumpet like the hypocrites, do you already know reward.

03:56 So therefore, when we give to the poor and do acts of kindness, Jesus Christ is commanding us to be in secret, not blowing our trumpet and all. Of course, sometimes you will be giving people in the public you may be giving, let’s say a beggar is
there and then you put money and others are seeing it. This doesn’t apply to that, because you are there, the beggar is there.

04:20 Whoever is begging or suffering or somebody has got some disability and they are there. And you are led in the spirit to put some money that also. Brothers and sisters, please ask Jesus Christ, ask the Spirit of God whether to give 1, 2, how much to
give because the monies are not yours anymore.

04:38 It’s not mine anymore. When we come to Jesus Christ, we have surrendered all. We have surrendered all.

04:44 That means nothing belongs to us. Everything belongs to him. And that is a safe place to be.

04:49 Why, if it belongs to you, the devil will steal, kill and destroy. If it belongs to Christ, you cannot steal, kill and destroy. But it’s not important enough just to say by words, oh, it belongs to Christ, it belongs to Christ.

05:02 But actually you act as if it’s yours. Suppose I say belong to Christ, I surrender. Door.

05:07 And then whenever something I want to make decision, I make decision on my own. I take the money I have and decide to do what I want. Do not wait on the Lord Jesus Christ.

05:13 Do not wait on the spirit of God to give me an understanding. What do I do. Then what will happen is the money finally be stolen and you will still be suffering for no reason.

05:26 And again you won’t have reward because you did not give or do things according to what the Spirit of God is telling you. Very important brothers and sisters, before you give, before you do something with the money that God has given you, you
consult him, you ask him, he’s the husband of your soul. He’s just like a husband and wife.

05:46 When the husband has given the wife some money to take out the house and this and that, and then buy the provisions or whatever. If she wants to buy something else other than that, doesn’t she have to ask her husband? I’m talking about a good God
fearing wife. If you’re talking about a wife who doesn’t care about God.

06:03 And then it’s not a born again family, it’s not born again spirit. They’re not following Christ, this family is not following Christ. Don’t expect that because they don’t understand these things.

06:12 You think when we were not in Christ, you think we were all following the rules of Christ? No, we were just doing what we wanted. But we believe because we don’t have Christ, we don’t have consultation, we just have to go and do and have to fend for
ourselves, fend for ourselves and master ourselves up again. Now before I come back to this, let me finish one more verse.

06:33 3. When you give to the poor, do acts of kindness. Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.

06:41 Give in complete secrecy. Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Give incomplete secrecy so that when your charitable acts will be done in secret, and your Father who sees what you’ve done in secret, will reward you.

06:56 Remember, the reward only comes when you do in secrecy. If you are doing it for for the benefit of people, you’re blowing a trumpet. There’s no reward.

07:07 But more importantly, a disciple will consult, will ask Jesus Christ, what do I do with this money? And a disciple will also, if not sure, some extraordinary expenses out of the normal expenditure you’re doing out of the normal purchases, you will
sit and take counsel among your brethren. Two or three godly counsel gives you safety. Do not operate on your own because you have a family in Christ.

07:36 That is, if you are in a congregation that really established in Christ, caring and loving for one another as Jesus Christ has loved us. That’s the second highest commandment. If you do not have that family in Christ, then obviously you have a
situation.

07:48 Then you have to wait on the Lord Jesus Christ and do by yourself. But remember what you are spending. The money is not yours anymore.

07:57 It’s not mine anymore. It is his And I love that position. You know why? It’s safe when we listen to Jesus Christ, the spirit of God do this.

08:06 Spend here, don’t spend here, give here, don’t give there. Is it safe because the spirit of God is doing now let us say you heard wrongly. He says give somewhere and then you believe that you’re giving because Jesus has told you then you’re giving
that you’ll still be protected if you are hearing in sincerity.

08:26 In sincerity. If your heart already wants something and then you want to buy that and then you are forcing yourself to look for signals and signs from Jesus Christ, spirit of God to buy that that is not sincere. If it’s not sincere insincere then
you will not get the protection from Christ because it’s insincere.

08:46 You are moving your own way. Brother. Is giving business an important thing now? One of the earliest things what happened was it’s only a few weeks after I’ve come to the Lord.

08:57 I was going to church and they used to have healing and deliverance ministry. I think it’s Wednesday. I think they have it at 3 o’clock.

09:05 I think so. They used to have there at 2 o’clock or 2:30. I forgot then I used to rush there from some distance away because we were in Patanjaya and this in care.

09:18 So now so I will drive and I’m so working at the time. So time problem. So last day I was dash there.

09:28 So one day I was doing that and parked up there park it and his is going on in chow kit. So I parked there and there I saw one boy. I can see the brother asking money for when I parked the car.

09:41 He wants money because I parking the car there. And I know looking I being in spirit. This fella if I if I don’t give him he may scratch the car.

09:50 So I gave him 50 cents. I gave him 50 cents. Now as soon as I gave him 50 cents and I moving away because I don’t want the card to be scratched.

10:02 I know this cap is also a drug addict. So I start scratching it because I’m looking like it. Anyway thank Jesus Christ then conviction my spirit.

10:12 I walk in Jesus the spirit of God telling me impression in my heart. Why did you give the 50 cents? So I speaking to myself. So I told the Lord Jesus Christ because I believe this fellow will stretch the car if I don’t give 50 cents.

10:30 He said, did you ask me then when I realized, because I know about the surrender business, the surrender. Then when I realized that I didn’t ask him. And Jesus, the spirit of God is telling me ask everything.

10:41 Because he’s teaching me to learn to hear him in everything. Because I’ve just come to the Lord Jesus Christ. He wants me to listen to this small still voice for every small thing first.

10:53 Because when you start listening to small things, then only bigger things you can hear. But all that I’m not thinking of that I’m thinking of while in church, all this going on. But then is it.

11:04 It’s time. Ah, because it’s safety for you. It’s a good thing.

11:08 And your surrender doll, it belongs to. It does not belong to you. Sorry, Lord Jesus.

11:13 I went. But it’s playing in my mind the next few days. Why? How? How did.

11:17 So I realized that he wants me to hear his voice. He wants me to ask for every little thing so that it’s a practice in me to hear my father’s voice, to hear the husband or my soul’s voice. The time I didn’t even know he’s the husband or my soul, by
the way.

11:31 But he says, I don’t know all this. So then I decided, yes, I will, you know. Yes, yes, yes.

11:37 Then of course after that, a couple of weeks later, same scenario, rushing there, parked the car and saw this chap, another chap with all this nasal mask all over. So it’s definitely addict. And then that time Jesus said, couldn’t he protect the
car? Wouldn’t Jesus protect the car? The spirit of God wouldn’t protect the car.

12:05 Why are you believing? They must give money and give man money, otherwise a man will scratch a car. So I saw this chair. The second Tyson around, saw this chap, dolls and needle marks and all.

12:15 So I decided not to give Jesus, brought her the car and moved on. And I. Okay, immediately another impression. Why didn’t you ask me? So I didn’t.

12:26 There now only I’m beginning to realize I forgot all about the earlier discussion with the Lord. Then why? Why then? Sorry Lord. Sorry Lord.

12:36 He said, now go and give 2 ringgit. Because they did not give the fellow any money. Because I said, Jesus has brought the car and that’s it.

12:42 This is money. So that’s it, I’m moving. He said, why didn’t you give the question? He’s saying, why didn’t you ask me? Ask me.

12:51 So he said, now I fell in my spirit. Go and give 2 ringgit with this fellow. Full of little marks.

12:57 I’m believing he’ll use it for drugs. But again he gave the two ringgit because now I disturbed in my spirit already. When I get the two ringgit, then I’m moving off again and sitting in the congregation and thinking about what’s going on here.

13:13 Then the next that is teaching me, ask him, Ask Him. Only he will know. For instance, who knows this same colorful of pockmarks, needle marks, you see? And you concluded? I concluded he’s a drug addict.

13:25 He was going to use the money for drugs. And who knows, he might have just prayed and said, if you are God, where are you? I’m suffering. I need a sign, somebody to help me.

13:36 And then if you have God, give me two ringgit somewhere. And somebody give me two ringgit to show your God. Who knows what they have prayed? We won’t know.

13:45 Only Jesus will know. Because he’s complete control of the entire universe and some of what he wants us to do, he wants us to ask him. Ask him godly counsel if we cannot hear because you have surrendered and every cent belongs to Jesus Christ of
Nazareth.

14:04 At the same time, do not. When he told you to give something, do not show off quietly give. Left hand shouldn’t know what the right hand is doing.

14:13 But if you cannot help it, when you’re giving somebody, you’re giving and people are saying that’s okay because you’re not blowing a trumpet. That’s how the situation has taken place. You’re not doing it to advertise.

14:22 You’re not doing it to get revenue from there. You’re not doing it to feel good or show people that intention must be clear. Our hearts are wicked, brothers and sisters.

14:32 Our heart will say, if I give this to this fellow, especially in the business world, he’ll say, okay, I better go give this to this chap. Give a gift so he will return the favor. You give a gift.

14:43 You give a gift full stop. Because your Lord Jesus Christ told you to give a gift. Do not give a gift expecting something in return.

14:51 Then you already have your reward here because you have a plan. Our hearts are like that. Our hearts are wicked.

14:58 So we have control our hearts, brothers and sisters, be very careful. Control our hearts. Because our hearts are like that, brothers and sisters, today, remember this.

15:09 Everything. What he wants us to do is when it comes to the Lord. And after that, forever, while we’re walking, to ask Him.

15:16 And after a while, it will be a sensing in your spirit. That means you will know he’s moving you. He will know it is Settled.

15:23 When you are settled in the spirit to give something, somebody you know, it’s your Lord Jesus Christ move moving you to give, then you are looking at other things. Because you’re moving, being moved from glory to glory. You’re not going to wait on
when does give, but when you’re uncertain.

15:37 Stop, stop, stop, stop. When you’re uncertain, stop. Pray, worship, wait for a moment, ask until you are settled that this is what the Spirit of God is telling you to do.

15:48 Otherwise you’ll be giving away Jesus Christ money without asking him. And that is a big no no. Because the devil, seeing that knows that you are just doing.

15:58 And I’m just doing what I want with the money given by God to me. He has a right to come and steal. Because we say when we first came to the Lord, I surrender all.

16:09 In fact, initially when I went there the first Sunday they were singing the song. I surrendered all. I did not sing after I was saved.

16:16 I dare not sing. Why? I don’t know what I’m surrendering. I’m unable to.

16:20 My heart won’t let go, you know. Then the next week though the same thing, the thing answered. And all that time the spirit of God already convicted me in one week.

16:27 It’s better to surrender all. That’s the only way to live life. Because by keeping it, I messed up.

16:33 When I didn’t surrender for all these years, what happened? I messed up completely. The devil stole from me. So then I decided yes, I surrender all.

16:42 All from today, Lord Jesus Christ, you are my Lord and savior. Everything you decide for me. Lord, I surrendered my mind.

16:48 Even that day. I don’t even my mind because it has almost destroyed me. In Jesus name I pray Jesus will take care of you brothers and sisters.

16:55 But consult him. Amen.