Good morning,

and welcome back to another.

Morning with the Masters.

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

Good morning, indeed.

We're picking back up with new morning mercy,

so Tori's just taking him here.

Yes, y'all, let's do it.

Today's devotional says this.

Prayer is abandoning my righteousness, admitting my need for forgiveness,

and resting in the grace of the cross of Jesus Christ.

Luke 18 9 through 14 say this.

He also told this parable to someone who trusted in themselves

that they were righteous and treated others with contempt.

Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee standing by himself prayed this.

God, I thank you that I'm not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tides of all that I get.

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven but beat 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 everyone

who exalts himself will be humbled but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.

It is a shocking prayer that the Pharisee speaks in Christ's confrontational

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