In Matthew chapter 6 Jesus showed that praying for our physical needs was proper but not the first priority or second or even third.
So the works of charity are fine but they are not a substitute for disciple making and cannot overshadow it.
AMEN!
It seems to me that if Christ could feed 5000+ people he could just as easily feed every hungry person in Israel. Yet he didn’t.
If Christ had control over the weather such to be able to stop one storm he could easily control the weather all the time. Yet he didn’t.
Nor did raise every believer that died as he did Lazarus though he could.
But by these we can see what he will do as King of the Kingdom since ‘all authority has been given him in heaven and on earth’. (Matt. 28:18)