Bring in the Poor: Part 4
How do we help people without enabling them? How do we help without hurting? These are tricky questions.
How do we help people without enabling them? How do we help without hurting? These are tricky questions.
Where is your focus? Is it on yourself, your dreams, and your goals? We miss out on participating with God and how He wants to touch others when our attention is consumed with ourselves.
Do you ever find yourself having an attitude of superiority toward those who you think are “less than” you? We need to realize that we were — and still are — “the poor.”
There is a tendency in all of us to exalt ourselves — to seek the recognition and attention of other people. As we dig into the context of this command, we’ll see that Jesus cuts right to the heart and exposes this pride in all of us.
A real evidence of faith is persistent prayer. But why do we find it so hard to continue in prayer without giving up?
God tells us to ask Him for things in prayer, but why do we ask sometimes and not see anything happen?
What competes with faith in our lives? If faith comes by listening to the Word of God, then the reverse is true as well. Unbelief and doubt come into our lives when we give our ear to other things.
Augustine said: “Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward for this faith is to see what you believe.” When Jesus commanded us to ask in faith, He also gave us an invitation — an invitation to draw near to the Faithful One.