Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with praying

to impress as we pick up in Matthew chapter 6 verse 5 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. Now anything that we do repeat over and over again, the same words, can easily become meaningless.

You know, we set the little groove patterns in our brain and all we have to do is tune in to that particular channel and

set the, push the button and you can just say it without even thinking.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep if I should die before I wake and pray the Lord my soul to get, you know, I mean it pushed the button and it goes.

It's like pulling the string on a little dollies. I mean it's just something that's programmed in, you know.

God is great, God is good good we thank you father for our food

amen and you can mouth these words without even you can be thinking

about something else entirely as you're saying these words. I don't have to be thinking

about what I say because I can just say these words by rope. And thus they become empty repetition of words.

So first of all, when I pray, I'm not to seek to get in some conspicuous place

so everybody will see that I am a man of prayer. I heard the reputation of

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