Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and images from Michael W Smith singing … I Will Carry You … poignantly singing of how our Lord is willing to carry us so we should be willing to carry others in need.
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Highlight Passage : … Luke 13:13 [ESV] ... 13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.
… Jesus heals a woman on the Sabbath.
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Highlight Passage [context] : … Luke 13:10-17 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus heals a woman crippled for decades on the Sabbath and shows the religious leaders why compassion knows no religious or time barriers.
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Reference Passage : … Deuteronomy 15:11 [ESV] … 11 For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
… God has always commanded His people to reach out to help the needy whenever we see it.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 25:40[ESV] ... 40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
… The way we reach out with compassion to help others is the way we reach out to help King Jesus.
Reference Passage : … Galatians 6:2, 9-10 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, teaches us how we are to ALWAYS take the opportunity given to us by God to help others.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 2:3-5 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul recognized that when we reach out to help those in need, we have the same attitude as our Lord, who always, in compassion, reached out to help the needy.
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 6:10 [ESV] … 10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for His name in serving the saints, as you still do.
… God always knows when we reach out to help others in need.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Estera Pirosca Escobar, AT THIS LINK uses the compassion of Nobel Peace winner, Mother Teresa (see photo), to illustrate the Christlike attitude we all should have for the needy when we have the opportunity and ability to help.
And then the ODB author uses the biblical example of Jesus showing compassion and helping a crippled woman on the Sabbath (see highlight passage) to show the attitude and action we should have, as supported by the Scriptures above, when we encounter others - anytime/anywhere - whom we have, as indicated above, the ability to help.
Today, if we see someone we can definitely help and God’s Spirit calls us into action, will we be there to do the right thing … the Christlike thing?!
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving me the ability to help others when You call me forward to do so.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to reach out, when convicted and directed by God, to help others. … Amen
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