God Answers Prayers

When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him" Luke 14:8.

The importance of not exalting oneself but being humbled by God, a theme of reversal where the proud are humbled and the humble are exalted. This does not indicate that you reject to sit at the front/highest when requested, but rather that you wait for the timing, or in other words, be modest. Don't strive to be a leader by using force, abilities, or trickery; instead, allow God to choose you, as he did with Joseph and David.

Repentance differs for believers and unbelievers. Believers will come to repentance and ask God for pardon after regretting their transgressions. Even unbelievers feel bad about their actions, but they don't turn from their sins and ask God for forgiveness. Regardless of what they have done wrong, believers will get closer to God while unbelievers will gradually drift away.

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:26 .

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28).