Help Others. Lesson 10 of 40

All of us can think of MANY reasons why we cannot help other people.  We are busy, we lack resources, and on and on.  For today’s lesson, I have learned that I should not only be willing to receive help, but I must also be willing to help others.  Let’s be quite clear here, helping others is OFTEN inconvenient, but that’s not even the point.  The bottom line is if God is leading us to help, we must respond with obedience and not excuses.  God has often interrupted my schedule and led me to a specific individual to help.  When I respond with a yes, I walk away feeling fulfilled.  I can also testify and say that God always redeems the time I give up helping others…ALWAYS!

I must help in the way that God is telling me to and not in the way I think is best. For example, God may be leading me to help a person by praying and fasting on their behalf during a season of difficulty.  I may put false expectations on myself and push to always physically be there in the person’s presence to rescue them from feeling the sting of their difficulty.  We will always encounter people who need our help, but it is important that we are not off helping people that God did not lead us to or helping others beyond the season that God is requiring of us.  Yes, help, but make sure you are helping according to God’s leading and not your emotion.

I must guard my heart from being prideful or expecting something in return when I help others. Help others with a spirit of meekness and not make the person I am helping feel less than.  Finally, everyone doesn’t need to know of my good deeds, God sees and that’s what matters. I encourage you to pray and ask the Lord to lead you to those you should help, and for Him to give you the blueprint on how to do it.

Be Blessed,

Anika

Mathew 6:1-4 “Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. ² When you give to someone in need, don’t do as the hypocrites do—blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you the truth, they have received all the reward they will ever get. ³ But when you give to someone in need, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. ⁴ Give your gifts in private, and your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.