MATTHEW 6:1-18
1) Be careful not to do your good works in public in order to attract attention. If you do, your Father in heaven will not reward you.
2) So when you give to the poor, don't announce it with trumpet fanfare. This is what hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets in order to be praised by people. I can guarantee this truth: That will be their only reward.
3) When you give to the poor, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
4) Give your contributions privately. Your Father sees what you do in private. He will reward you.
5) When you pray, don't be like hypocrites. They like to stand in synagogues and on street corners to pray so that everyone can see them. I can guarantee this truth: That will be their only reward.
6) When you pray, go to your room and close the door. Pray privately to your Father who is with you. Your Father sees what you do in private. He will reward you.
7) When you pray, don't ramble like heathens who think they'll be heard if they talk a lot.
8) Don't be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9) This is how you should pray: Our Father in heaven, let your name be kept holy.
10) Let your kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.
11) Give us our daily bread today.
12) Forgive us as we forgive others.
13) Don't allow us to be tempted. Instead, rescue us from the evil one.
14) If you forgive the failures of others, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15) But if you don't forgive others, your Father will not forgive your failures.
16) When you fast, stop looking sad like hypocrites. They put on sad faces to make it obvious that they're fasting. I can guarantee this truth: That will be their only reward.
17) When you fast, wash your face and comb your hair.
18) Then your fasting won't be obvious. Instead, it will be obvious to your Father who is with you in private. Your Father sees what you do in private. He will reward you.
PHILIPPIANS 3:19
... whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
EZEKIEL 16:49-50
Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
MATTHEW 17:15-16
15) Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16) And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
MATTHEW 17:18
18) And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
MATTHEW 17:19-21
19) Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20) And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21) Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
ACTS 13:2-3
2) As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
3) And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
ISAIAH 58:8
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward."