HELPING HANDS–HEALING HEARTS

“But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?” (1 John 3:17, ESV). 

God is calling us to be helping hands to those in need. Helping hands reveal the heart of our Father God

Faith links us to the supernatural Creator, and we now have a “super” attached to us as believers in Christ. We walk and live in a natural world, but God does not want us to be bound by that reality. He desires that we walk in faith and in love—showing God’s love to the world around us. His design is for us to come into agreement with His Word, His Ways, and live a surrendered life to Him. We are ambassadors of Jesus Christ to reveal the love of God to others through acts of kindness, reaching out to help others through practical ways. 

The people we can help may be a friend or neighbor, a child, the elderly, a stranger down the street, your parents, brothers and sisters in family, the weak, rich, poor, sick people, needy people, fellow Christians, non-believers, helping in the community or in the church. 

Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you” (ESV). 

God met Abram’s needs. In Genesis 14 we find Abram’s nephew Lot in trouble. Armies had come to take Sodom and Gomorrah and their king and all the other kings with them. They took Lot and all his goods and left. As soon as Abram learned of the tragedy, he took over three hundred trained servants to pursue, catch, and defeat them. 

Look at verse 16:

“And he brought back all the goods and also brought back again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.”

Abram and his men not only got the women, the men, and the children back, but they got the goods as well.

The Bible continues:

“And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale. 

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.” (Genesis 14:17, 21-23).

Abram was following the rules of God’s kingdom. Abram didn’t want to appear that anyone had made him rich but God. It is Almighty God that causes us to prosper and He is the One who provides. 

We are called to pursue God, point others to Jesus through revealing God’s love, and live victoriously through our Savior who died, was raised, and ascended to heaven, and is seated at the right Hand of God, interceding for us that our faith will not fail. We have a Blood Covenant that cannot be annulled through the shed Blood of Jesus—the Lamb of God.  

Because Abram was honoring God and operating according to His Kingdom principles, we see Abram receiving God’s great promise:

“After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield and exceeding great reward.” 

If we absolutely trust God, we are at peace. We are to “occupy till Jesus comes” and that means we help people and take one city after the next for God. God wants the kingdom of God to be  spread throughout the whole earth. 

God is raising up an army of believers that abide in Him—and that will not tolerate Satan taking over this earth or those in our path. God has chosen His people to bring heaven to earth. His favor is upon us. People will see what heaven is like by seeing how we talk, how we walk, how we act, how we respond to those in need, and how we think.

“The secret things belong to the Lord, our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever. That we may do all the word of this law” (Deut. 29:29)

When we have a revelation of the secrets of the kingdom of God and live accordingly, the world will see the difference in our lives. We will become witnesses as ambassadors of Jesus Christ, and we will take back this earth—one person at a time, one city at a time, to one nation at a time. 

It takes someone special to extend the heart of God. Be the hands and feet and heart of God to someone in need today. Ask God to show you someone in need—He will do just that! From acknowledgement, encouragement, to practical ways of helping people in need, that is our calling as believers. 

Arise and shine. Open your hands and heart! Wrap your arms around someone today and let them know our Savior’s love—Jesus.

“A friend loves you all the time, but a brother was born to help in times of trouble” (Proverbs 17:16). As children of the Most High King—we are the family of God.