Let me begin by summarizing the gist of today’s Scripture reading: The people of Israel were practicing wickedness in the sight of the Lord God. They were worshipping the Baals and Asherahs. So God sold them into the hand of a foreign king named Cushan-Rishathaim, and the children of Israel served this king for eight years. When the people of Israel cried out to the Lord from their suffering of slavery, the Lord raised a deliverer to free them, a judge named Othhniel. He was the leader of the people of Israel. Having raised him to be the leader of Israel, God worked through Othniel and enabled him to defeat King Cushan-Rishathaim. After prevailing in this war, Israel was then peaceful and prosperous for forty years.

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My dear fellow believers, how are you? It’s good to have you with us today. We went to Cheonan City today and leased a house for one of our ministers to plant our branch church there. It has 2 small bedrooms, a living room at the front and a kitchen at the rear. It is nothing extravagant, but God has given us a house very suitable for this family to live in and serve Him. We had prayed to God to provide us with an affordable and a good solid home, and that is exactly what He gave us. In the near future, we are going to rent a church building and have revival meetings there as well.

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Today, I would like to explain to you how we should pray to the Lord. First of all, the Lord said here in today’s Scripture passage that whenever we pray to God, we should not be like the hypocrites. This means that we should not pray just to show off our own piety to others, standing in the church or on street corners just to be seen. To whom should we pray then? Of course, we should pray to the righteous God.
As the righteous, would there be some sort of quota that we must meet when we pray to God? No, the quantity of prayer does not matter. What really matters is that we pray to God sincerely and faithfully. It’s only natural that all of us should pray to God faithfully. The question is, however, how we should pray. Should we pray loudly standing on a busy street corner for everyone to see? No, as already mentioned, this is not the case. The Lord told us to pray quietly to God instead, so that only He may hear us. God the Father will then listen to our prayers and answer our requests.

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