May 21 2025 … Loving the Stranger …

May 21 2025 … Loving the Stranger   …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Steve Green  singing… People Need the Lord, calling all Christians to reach out and help others find Christ.  

Reaching out to help others, including strangers .. 

Highlight Passage: …  Leviticus 19:33-34  … [NLT] … 

33 “Do not take advantage of foreigners who live among you in your land. 34 Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners living in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.           

…   God charges His people to treat foreigners like their own native peoples.           

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Leviticus 19:9-10, 33-34 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God calls on His chosen people to treat ‘foreigners” with God’s love and mercy.  .                    

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Highlight Passage (in context): … Proverbs 19:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… shares Godly wisdom on reaching out to help others is lending God’s love to them.  

Reference Passage: … Galatians 6:2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul charges fellow Christians to share each other’s burdens which is obeying God’s law of love.                         

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 2:3-5  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also teaches fellow Christians to treat others better than we would treat ourselves to take on the attitude of Christlikeness and avoid being selfish. 

Reference Passage: …  Hebrews 13:16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, charges Christians to do good for those in need.

Reference Passage: …  1Peter 2:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… the Apostle Peter charges fellow Christins remember what God had done for them and treat others in the same way.  

Reference Passage: …  1John 3;17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s truth, thru John, of sharing God’s love by helping others in need.

    

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Patricia Raybon  … AT THIS LINK       … relates the story of woman, a master seamstress, suffering from  long illness, who developed a plan to donate her sewing machines and all her goods to a group who would use them to help those in need to develop sewing skills to help them earn an income.    

And if my readers have taken in the linked song and the Scriptures above, I’m praying today that we ALL think of ways that we can reach out and help others to receive God’s mercy and His enabling grace today, … especially to those who may be foreigners in our midst.  Personally, I need to do more to use my God-given gifts to help others who need the Lord.  How about you?    

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for calling me to use what You’ve given me, LORD, to find Your love and grace today.

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for reaching out to share Your love and grace with others, especially strangers in our midst, today.  … Amen

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