Would you please turn with me in you Bibles, to Matthew chapter 7.  We come to another passage concerning prayer in verses 7-11, and this passage may seem to have little direct connection with the verses that we have just studied, but in fact, their relationship is obvious if you give it a little reflection.  Christ has just been instructing His disciples on how they are to relate to others.  How they are to not judge and how they are to judge. In verses 1-5, He has been telling them that they should not be hypercritical.  They should not be harsh and quick to judge,  they should certainly not judge in accordance with their own opinion, but in verse 6, He has made it clear that they must judge.  For if they are not to be hypercritical, neither are they to be naïve.  And so they…