GIFT BAG

THANK YOU FATHER!

I'm just talking today and encouraging you to extend your hand to people.
You know I have recently learned that I am the individual church not just a member. Learning that God has made me a place where people should be able to come and receive encouragement.

My Father sent four people across my path yesterday that were in distress and I was able to extend my hand and listen to them and make them feel useful and remind them that they are loved and not forgotten.
Do you have any idea how that does my heart?
Making someone feel comfortable and welcome is a blessing to my soul.

There is nothing wrong with having compassion, even if folks come expecting pity there is a way to turn that around without making them feel like they have done something wrong.

People are hurting and they are hungry, use wisdom and be led but reach out.

I am asking everyone today to understand that even if you have a philosophy about pity, your whole philosophy will go straight out of the window when the tables turn and you are the one in need of compassion.
Luke 10:30-37 Meditate the instruction of our LORD.

Don't get all uppity and say, "I don't need pity, I trust in God!"
No, the very thing you think that you will never ever need is the thing God has sent to extend a hand to you.
It was the compassion of God that put us all in a position to give more than criticism.

It was God's charity that saved us.
I don't care who you are.
Yes teach, preach and pray that folks put their faith on it but don't be deaf to the voice of God saying:
Messenger John go and meet their faith need.

Ambassador Lolita go and meet their faith need.

Messenger Lakesha go and meet their faith need.

Ambassador Kevin go and meet their faith need.

God is not coming down on a surf board that's why He calls men and women to be His extension.
He works through people who are lead my His Spirit, who walk after His Spirit.

Don't get stuck on pity have compassion, because compassion compels you to do what God told you to do.
It did for Jesus.

You may have been tricked and bamboozled in the past by characters, to the pure all things are pure...
Instead of operating in suspicion and judging a book by it's cover which if we check our cover judging skills from the past we know they suck, look at the need and then if it's possible for you to meet it, meet it.

You don't have to do any more for a man than you are lead to by the Holy Ghost.

I am saying place a winter hat, scarf, gloves, a freezer bag of toiletries, granola bars, a blanket or fleece jacket, a pair of socks, a bottle of water and a Bible in a gift bag in your trunk.

All of these items can be purchased at your local dollar store and not just at Christmas.
Keep this in your trunk and be ready to give.

In Christ you are an ambassador, the calling card.

It doesn't matter if I know how to open the show and close the show with jokes, songs or cartwheels.

It doesn't matter if I understand every intricate detail about the office of an Evangelist.

It doesn't matter if I know Greek, Hebrew or Japanese, or prophesy in Aramaic while passing out turkeys, cookies, and shoes if i don't have heart of compassion.

A hard heart will always fail.
Compassion will never fail.

Get your gift bag together.
James 2:1-8

Love Y'all