We have a small group prayer meet every week. So many miracles happening through this prayer meet. God is showing us sincere prayers, led by Holy spirit, is the way to experience God's guidance.
I'm asking is it possible to do pray right infront of an audience?
Again it is not a matter of right and wrong. It is a matter of God receiving your prayers and ignoring them.
They went to an upper room... This is a private prayer no matter how many attended.
Again the act of going out side of the city to the river side, is an attempt to seclude themselves from the general public.
lol.. They where chained.. in a prison.. When did prison become a public place?
acts 1: 13 says they where in the upper room where they where staying when they prayed.
which is different how when we do it? (Pray for a meal in a public restaurant? )
Again, how can one plan or set out to pray publicly, and not be pharisaical in intent? Look at the other two examples of thing one is expected to do for God and then look at the same prohibition Jesus puts on Fasting, giving and prayer. All three items are expected tasks/works that must be done, by the believe for God; and yet if you look at all three together/same context the expectation being communicated is do not do your works for God in public/infront of other men..
Are your family meetings open to the general public? Do you hold your prayer meeting in a restaurant or are they private/by invitation only?
The key to your question is Jesus' use of the term "hypocrite." Many don't know what the word meant in his day. His main critique of the Pharisees was their approach. They were acting, only pretending to be a righteous person. When Jesus calls someone a “hypocrite,” He is not using the word in the casual modern sense of “someone who says one thing and does another.” His term is the Greek hypokritēs—a stage‑actor, someone performing a role for an audience. In Matthew 6, Jesus applies this label to religious people who turn acts of devotion into public theater. Their giving, praying, and fasting are not genuine expressions of worship but carefully staged performances designed to elicit admiration. Jesus’ warning, then, is not about the visibility of the act but the intent behind it: the danger of turning worship into a costume, righteousness into a script, and the presence of God into a stage.
what about the other two directives Jesus gave concerning works we are expected to perform in mat 6's sermon on the mount? We are supposed to give in secrete and we are supposed to fast in secret.
I have. Jesus is recorded in praying 6 different times through out the gospel in front of a mixed crowd of people. If you take the prayers away He did at the cross, that number dwindles down to 3. One of the biggest crowds He prayed openly infront of, was when He resurrect Lazarus from the dead and even then he says/gives a reason as to why He prayed aloud:
After a few years experience God's miracles, I understand why God want us to pray together. God is showing to our group, not just one person, the miracles. So we all benefit by that believe. Even some prayers I don't want to pray in front of others, but holy spirit urge me to do so.
I think we are almost agreeing. You seemed to be saying earlier that the only Biblical way to pray is to go into a room by yourself to do so. From what you have written now, it seems that you agree that it is fine for Christians to pray together. The Prohibition is against "praying" to show off.
I think you are confusing the word public with out side.
