Christ has given us a comparison of two people; Pharisee and the publican.
It is not just about what you do.. It's about what is in you heart. Prayer is our opportunity to get help from God. Your pray is not design to make you look good, or better than anyone else.
WHY: pray, reading the bible, asking those that understand the scriptures to explain it....
When you pray you have to pray the right way. When we pray we are asking God to help us with those lusts that we have in our flesh... When we get Gods spirit he gives us that peace.
God uses us as a testimony, when you pray and you come thru the tough and trying times. Have your heart broken, pray the right way.
Luke 18:9-14
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Romans 3:10
Romans 3:23
Psalms 51:5
James 4:3
