I guarantee to meet your needs…

isaiah 50.8 (ncv) says, if you feed the hungry and take care of the needs of those who are troubled, then your light will shine in the dark and the LORD will always lead you and HE’ll satisfy your needs in dry land. and you’ll be like a spring that never runs dry.

listen, when you assume responsibility for the needs of hurting people around you,” GOD says, “I guarantee to meet your needs.” what a deal! GOD says, “when you take on the needs of other people around you, I guarantee that your needs will be met by me, GOD.” you can’t beat that. HE says, “I'll lead you, I'll bless you, I'll take care of your needs.”

proverbs 11:17 (nlt), your own soul is nourished when you are kind. GOD has promised many, many great benefits for kindness.

galatians 6.10 (ncv), says, whenever we have the opportunity [and, by the way, you’ve got it right now] to help anyone, we should do it. but we should give special attention to those who are in the family of believers. who’s the family of believers? it’s your church family. the bible says be kind to everybody but give special attention to the family of believers who need your help.

who needs your kindness this week? susan kidd wrote this: “it happened years ago on one of those raw december days that make people wish they’d done their CHRISTmas shopping in july. snowflake winds whipped through the street, and hunched on a sidewalk bench sat an unshaven man. he wore a threadbare jacket and shoes with no socks. he’d folded a paper bag around his neck to keep out the biting wind. a shopper paused, saddened by the man. ‘such a pity,’ she thought. but there was really nothing she could do. while the shopper lingered there, a little girl, maybe 11 or 12, walked by and spotted the frostbitten figure on the bench. wrapped around the girl’s neck was a bright woolen scarf. she stopped beside the old man, unwrapped the wool scarf and draped it tenderly around his neck and walked away. the man rubbed the warm wool. then the shopper crept away, wishing that she had been the one to give the scarf. i was that shopper. and GOD taught me something that day. wherever i am, whatever i possess there is always something that i can give – a touch, a smile, a prayer, a kind word, even a scarf.”

will you grow in kindness?

just a thought from the front porch…