Dec 8 2025 … Helping The Needy …

Dec 8 2025 …  Helping The Needy … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...      and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from Matthew West singing Do Something …  exhorting Christians who see the needy in the world to follow God’s call to “DO SOMETHING!”

Highlight Passage: … Deuteronomy 24:19 … [NLT] … 

19 “When you are harvesting your crops and forget to bring in a bundle of grain from your field, don’t go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigners, orphans, and widows. Then the Lord your God will bless you in all you do. … “ 

… Moses instructs God’s people in one way to reach out to help the needy, especially the foreigners in their land.

Highlight Passage in Context:  Deuteronomy 24:17-23  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Moses calls God’s people to be hospitable and generous to the needy among them.

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Reference Passage:… Deuteronomy 15:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru Moses, commands His people to give freely to help the poor among them.

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 14:31, 19:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon calls on believers to be willing to honor God by giving to help the needy.  

Reference Passage:… Matthew 6:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in His “sermon on the mount” calls on His followers to give in private to help the needy, not publicly for show.

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

… The Author of Hebrews extols and encourages fellow Christians to be willing to give to help the needy.

Reference Passage: … 1John 3:17-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…John teaches truth about giving to help other which shows the love of God in those who’re willing to give to help the needy.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Matt Lucas …  USE THS LNK    …  related how his church, some time in the past, had opened up their homes and showed God’s love and hospitality to share their homes and resources with a group of immigrants who had been displaced from their homeland due to a political change of leadership.

And this act of loving kindness, which certainly was compatible with what God calls His people to do (see Scriptures shared above), reinforced, for the ODB author, what all Christians should be doing when they (we) see others in need.   Actually, I, for one, need to be more open-hearted, when I see others who genuinely need a helping hand.  What about you? 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for calling me to be more hospitable and generous when I see others in need.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … thank You for giving Your all for Your children, … all of us who need Your love and mercy so desperately. … Amen

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