“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1, ESV) This week we have studied the lives of several people in the Bible who were faithful in prayer and recognized the power of prayer. Today let’s look at the words of Jesus in Matthew 6, a passage we call the Sermon on the Mount. Within this passage, the Lord addresses the motives behind our actions—why we do the things we do. In the first eighteen verses of this…