“FATHER WHO SEES”!!!

 Matthew 6:5-6                    (ESV)

“[5] “And WHEN YOU PRAY, YOU MUST NOT BE LIKE THE HYPOCRITES. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, THAT THEY MAY BE SEEN BY OTHERS. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. [6] But when you pray, GO INTO YOUR ROOM and SHUT THE DOOR and pray to your FATHER WHO IS IN SECRET. And your “FATHER WHO SEES” in secret WILL REWARD YOU.”

In the RED LETTER EDITION of the HOLY BIBLE the WORDS spoken by JESUS are written in RED!  The ENTIRE sixth chapter of Matthew is written in RED, meaning that our CREATION must have had an INVALUABLE MESSAGE HE was trying to relate to hard heads, such as this one???  JESUS, GOD IN THE FLESH (John 10:30!), is enunciating precisely how to CONNECT to the FATHER in the focal passage of Scripture above.  

Now JESUS says that we need to “GO INTO YOUR ROOM and SHUT THE DOOR and pray to your FATHER WHO IS IN SECRET”!  But when HE was on the cross HE was obviously NOT ALONE WITH GOD!  So GOD can hear us, even when we are busy and predisposed.  But in my experience, for me to HEAR FROM GOD I need to remove ALL DISTRACTIONS and INTERRUPTIONS!!  Personally, I am not built to listen to our CREATOR while my mind is sidetracked by “the cares of this world”!!  JESUS tells me to “GO INTO YOUR ROOM and SHUT THE DOOR and pray to your FATHER WHO IS IN SECRET” and SEE if that helps!!!

The “FATHER WHO SEES” absolutely KNOWS when we are BEING STILL before HIM!!  HE had me placed into a seventeen day coma to get my attention a few years ago!  A few verses later in Matthew 6:8 JESUS says “Do not be like them, for your FATHER knows what you need before you ask HIM.”  Then why does HE want us bringing our needs to HIM?  It might be because HE wants us to admit that we are helpless without HIM and we REQUIRE a “FATHER WHO SEES”???