Mindfully Meditating on Matthew chapter 6 or MMM6

Mindfully Meditating in Matthew chapter six

Mindfully Meditating in Matthew, the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 37, Feb 6)

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Homan Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

Matthew 6
- Mt 6:1-4 Quiet Giving
  - ²So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!
- Mt 6:5-8 Privately Pray
  - ⁶But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you
- Mt 6:9-13 The Lord’s prayer
- Mt 6:14-15 Forgiveness
  - ¹⁴“For if you forgive people their wrongdoing,^[i] your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. ¹⁵But if you don’t forgive people,^[j] your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing.^[k]
    - Matthew 18:21-35
      - ³⁵“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
    - Luke 6:37
      - “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
    - Mark 11:25
      - And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”
    - Ephesians 4:32
      - Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
    - Colossians 3:13
      - Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
- Mt 6:16- 18 Secret Fasting
  - ¹⁷But when you fast, put oil on your head, and wash your face, ¹⁸so that you don’t show your fasting to people but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.^[
- Mt 6:19-24 Treasures, The Eye and Masters
  - ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
  - ²²“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
  - ²⁴“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.
    - Choose today whom you will serve –
      - ^{Joshua 24:15}And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
    - MMM19
- Mt 6:25-34 Anxieties
  - ²⁵“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
  - ²⁷Can any of you add a single cubit to his height^[o] by worrying?
  - ³³But seek first the kingdom of God^[q] and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. ³⁴Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
  - 1 Peter 5:7
    - ⁷Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
  - Mt 10:30-31

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Matt 6:33
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

³³But seek first the kingdom of God^[q] and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
BUT seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness
but SEEK first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness
but seek FIRST the Kingdom of G0d and His righteousness
but seek first THE Kingdom of God and His righteousness

…and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

A lovely color page of the Lord’s Prayer

A set of many different coloring pages for the Lord’s prayer

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later.

Consider your giving and if it is in secret
1. your answer
Do you know the Lord’s Prayer? Is it the same as is written in your Bible?
1. your answer
Do you pray the Lord’s prayer?
1. Your answer
What is the key to being forgiven?
1. your answer – and Open Bible has a list of verses that go along with forgiveness

Hi!
My hope in the midst of despair and my joy in the face of depression is because of my relationship with Jesus Christ. If you do not have one, or are not sure you will join him in heaven, please check out these links:

Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

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I’m almost to the 2 month count down for going to Germany.
Before I go to Germany, I have to have this apartment packed up to move into our RV.
Before we move into our RV,

Triptich for Anna

I have to finish the painting I’m working on for Anna.

There is so much to be done to finish these paintings….there is so much to be done to pack for Germany….there is so much to be done to pack up(or rather, pack down) and move into an RV.

I feel like I am hearing this song over and over and over and over…hurry up,

The Triptich Separated

can’t waste time, hurry up, can’t waste time….racing with the clock!

I’ve written about racing, being in a race, how I’d love to do a triathlon race again(sprint….not iron man)…and how I’d love to be in better shape than I am.

But a new racing is hitting the fan…my heart. Tachycardia is a BAD thing. But anxiety is even worse.

Phil 4:6 NLT Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

Matt 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

I am excited about going to Germany.

I am excited about moving into the RV full time.

I am excited to see Anna’s face when she gets these paintings.

I’m nervous, a bit, about flying for 10 hours with a service dog…I’m a bit nervous about downsizing for the RV….I’m a bit nervous about completing Anna’s paintings so that I can stand to see them hanging in her house.

Why should I take no thought, not worry, not be anxious? Because I have a promise:

Phil 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Is 41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee: FEAR NOT, I WILL HELP THEE!

And there is this basic promise:

Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?

So, with all my excitement, and with the short time, and with all that I have to do….my focus needs to be on this:

Matt 6:33-34 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.

What can I do more than what I am able to do? If I do all that I am able to do, then that is good enough. Getting caught up in the hurry up mentality will only make me too sick to enjoy ANY of the new things that are coming down our path.

And just in case those three things aren’t enough in the next two months, I also have to plan our three week vacation, starting one week after I get home(and that week is our move out/into week!).

“If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.” ~ Martin Luther

“Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.” ~Corrie ten Boom

There are more quotes about prayer at Christian Prayer Quotations

Prayer, a prayer time, prayer focus. My dear daughter reminded me today that the way I taught them to pray was to wake up saying “Good Morning Lord, thank you for this day…..” and to go to bed saying, “……good night, Lord, thank you for this day.” The point being, never stop in between.

Prayer combats the sin of worry…because faith displaces fear.

May we each be blessed today with what God puts before us to do…and to do that as unto the Lord.

Col 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Thanks for joining me in this journey,

In His hands and under His wings,

~Christi

Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.