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Prayer: Beyond the Facade

Door of Hope Southeast

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The Long Prayers, That's Okay, but Empty Phrases

In Mark 12 starting in verse 38, Jesus warning about the scribes. "Do not heap up empty phrases the Gentiles do for they think that they'll be heard for their many words," he says. For a pretense they will make long prayers, that means for show. That means so that people will look at them for the stated purpose of being gocked at. If you just don't shut up, he's anxious to hear you. He wants to hear you."

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