COMPASSION IN ACTION

Yesterday I attend 10A service at my church and we had a great worship and praise experience. The spirit was truly permeating through the people on yesterday so much so that the Pastor did not even preach a sermon. Nevertheless as a church we uniformly exhibited compassion in action.

Before the choir sang the director blessed one of the choir members with $50. She'd lost her job on a Friday, had an interview the next Monday and was offered a new job (Our Heavenly Father is good!). She spoke to the choir during choir rehearsal and just expressed how she was down to her last few dollars. The choir director was led by the spirit to give and he obeyed. Afterwards he laid $50 at the feet of our Pastor. Immediately my aunt was in her purse pulling out money had walked up to the Pastor and laid the money before his feet as well. One by one the majority of the church body began laying money at the feet of the pastor out of love, compassion and thankfulness of all that he gives and does for us in the name of the Heavenly Father, Yahweh. Pastor hugged everyone that gave. This moment led the Pastor to tears. Simultaneously while this was going on the choir director was speaking the word, people were praying, praising, and thanking God spending time worshipping God in spirit and in truth.

After Pastor got himself together he approached the pulpit and expressed that the sermon had already went forth. Then he asked for single mothers who were having a hard time feeding and providing for their families a Thanksgiving meal to come to the alter. He blessed those families with a monetary gift so that they could experience the joys of Thanksgiving and proclaimed "if we eat, they eat!" "If one of us eats, all of us eats!" Hallelujah. Then the Pastor asked for a man that wanted to do something nice for his wife and just didn't have the means to do it. He wanted to bless that man with enough money to buy his woman some nice flowers and take her out for a nice dinner. It took awhile for a man to come forward but one did and the Pastor reached into his own pocket and gave.

We are blessed to be a blessing. We are not blessed to hoard our blessings and keep them for ourselves. We should not have an I am only worried about me and mine mentality. Pastor mentioned the Parable of the Good Samaritan and how even the priests and holy people saw a man stripped, beaten, and laid for dead and did absolutely nothing, his own brethren saw him and did nothing, yet not only a stranger but aN "enemy" saw him in need and met the need.

It is time for compassion in action when you see a need that you can meet, do it! Wheter you are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Agnostic, Atheist, etc. it doesn't matter if you see a need that you can meet, do it! Financially, Spirituality, Mentality, Time however you can meet the need, Just Do It!

Be a blessing and be blessed,
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