Greetings brethren. Thanks be to God once again to able to share what I learnt from Brother Eli Soriano's teachings held on zoom.
James 5:16-18. Using Elijah as an example of the old testament. The confession of sins ought not to be to priest. If a brother sins against you, he should confess the sin to the brother(admit to him) and pray one for another. Meaning if I sin against a brother, the brother will pray for me. If
I John 5:16. There is a sin that is unto death. If you see your brother sinning, we should pray for him to God. Everyone should pray and ask for forgiveness for the brother who sins. We should not go about telling people about the sin of the brother. We should pray for those that sin against us because it's the commandment of God due to the spirit of love
I Peter 4:8, Proverbs 25:9. Love is the remedy for all sins because it covers a lot of sins such as thinking evil and foolishness cause in the world there is a possibility of sin.
Psalm 32:5. When we sin as Christian we should first confess our sins unto God then unto men and not unto a priest because it is not recorded in the Bible that we should our sins and transgressions unto a priest. We should confess sin and transgressions first unto God so that He can forgive all our iniquities of sins.
Proverbs 28:13
Sins can be forgiven if only we admit it and forsake them.
Isaiah 65:24, Matthew 6:8. If a righteous person prays, it is effective and avails much. Before a righteous man even starts praying, God is already listening. If we will obey, this is a promise of God so for this course we should not use vain repetitions because our father knows that which we need even before we call upon Him. Christ said when we pray we should not use vain repetitions because our father God already knows what using our hearts.
Daniel 6:10, Daniel 9:22-23. When Daniel prayed, he prayed towards the temple (Jerusalem). Before Daniel started praying for the forgiveness of his sins and that of his people, God had already heard him and sent forth Angel Gabriel because Daniel was a righteous person.
I Thessalonians 4:16, John 6:44, Daniel 9:18-24. It is the delight of God when men lives in holiness. Everytime we come before God and pray, God is happy and delighted. God can change a person when we pray without ill feelings. Just like Daniel did in the time of the old testament. We should know that the prayer of the upright is God's delight.
Acts 17:24, Isaiah 55:7, I Corinthians 3:16. The house of God on Earth is the church of God, not those believed by men such as chapel. We have to worship God in the house of prayer(which is the church of God). Where those the spirit of God dwells? I Corinthians 3:16, it dwells in the heart of the people of God that worship Him diligently . The church is a house of prayer with a congregation full of prayerful people and the prayers are not repetitive and God listens because Christ is the one leading the church.
I Corinthians 14:40. When praying it be done in discipline example for the sake of orderliness we ought to leave our shoes outside so we don't dirty the floors because when praying to God our Father we are expected to kneel down with our face to the ground. Remember in the book of Exodus 3:5 when Moses was at Mount Sinai he was asked to take off his shoes that he is standing on an holy ground. This is not a doctrine but it's simply discipline and order.
When praying also we ought to face one direction where the glory of God started which is in the East in accordance with the word of God.
Ezekiel 43:2, Zachariah 8:7, Malachi 4:11. This scripture was fulfilled by MCGI.
How the teachings affects my daily life as a Christian is that I know have better understanding that when praying without vain repetitions, God is delighted. And that when praying as righteous and upright Christians, my prayers is effective and avails much and God will forgive me of my sins and heal me. Prayer is a very important factor in life generally. When we call upon God He listens. God can do a lot of things that man cannot do when we call on Him in prayers. God will have mercy upon us and forgive us as He is far bigger than all the problems of life.
John 16:23. We should note also that when praying we should ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord not any other name.
Thanks be to God.
Thanks be to God for listening on our meeting.
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II CORINTHIANS 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.