Page 515 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

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7 Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they
will be heard the more they say;
8 You must not copy them; your Father knows your needs before

you ask him.
9 Let this be how you pray: ‘our Father in heaven, thy name be
revered,
10 thy Reign begin, thy will be done on earth as in heaven!

11 Give us to-day our bread for the morrow,
12 and forgive our debts as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors,
13 and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.’

14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you:
15 but if you do not forgive men, your Father will not forgive your

trespasses either.
16 When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they
look woebegone to let men see that they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do

get their reward.
17 No, when you are fasting, anoint your head and wash your
face,
18 so that your fast may be seen not by men but by your Father

who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
19 Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth
and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:

20 store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust corrode, where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.
22 The eye is the lamp of the body: so, if your Eye is generous, the

whole of your body will be illuminated,
23 But if your Eye is selfish, the whole of your body will be darkened.
And if your very light turns dark, then—what a darkness it is!

24 No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love
the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other—you cannot
serve both God and mammon.

25 Therefore I tell you, never trouble about what you are to eat
or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life
means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!

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