{"id":1646,"date":"2014-08-06T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2014-08-06T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:11:32","slug":"sermon-on-the-mount-the-lords-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Sermon on the Mount: The Lord&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #373737;\">In Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge vowed \u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d I am going to keep Christmas all the year by remembering my Savior and studying His life each week. Scrooge isn\u2019t the only one who can\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1982d1;\" title=\"Vision Climb\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=55\" target=\"_blank\">make a change for the better<\/a><span style=\"color: #373737;\">. I can and you can. Elder Richard G. Scott promised, \u201cThe best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life\u201d (<\/span><a style=\"color: #1982d1;\" title=\"A Personal Study Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=238\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHe Lives! All Glory to His Name!\u201d<\/a><span style=\"color: #373737;\">). Please join me and invite your family and friends to join us in keeping Christmas all the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzmbLWIqUBk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.\u00a0<\/em><em>Therefore when thou doest\u00a0thine\u00a0alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:\u00a0<\/em><em>That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are:\u00a0for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen\u00a0do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.\u00a0<\/em><em>Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.\u00a0<\/em><em>Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as\u00a0it is\u00a0in heaven.\u00a0<\/em><em>Give us this day our daily bread.\u00a0<\/em><em>And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.\u00a0<\/em><em>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. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/matt\/6.1-13?lang=eng#primary\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew 6:1-13<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Points to Ponder:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>How has serving in secret blessed your life, either as the giver or receiver?<\/li>\n<li>If our Heavenly Father knows what we need, why must we ask Him for them in prayer?<\/li>\n<li>What does The Lord&#8217;s Prayer teach you about how to pray and how to improve your prayers?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click <a title=\"New Testament\" href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?page_id=673\">here<\/a> for additional New Testament posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge vowed \u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.\u201d I am going to keep Christmas all the year by remembering my Savior and studying His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/?p=1646\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11,25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-jesus-christ","category-new-testament","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaintopmentoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}