Have you sent your prayer requests for 12HOURS non-stop prayers? Sept 2nd, the 16th Edition.
THE VOICE OF GOD ( V.O.G)
TOPIC: BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN YOU ARE HELPING A POOR MAN/WOMAN.
TEXT:
Mathew 25 vs 14 to 30.
Then he who had received one talent came and said, lord I knew you. Knowing that you are a hard man reaping where you have not sown...
Did you read that?
Have you ever met somebody who thinks that the help you are giving is not enough?
Thus they say, after all it was just a little assistant.If I were the one, I would have given more.
This and more is the mentality of poor people.
They refuse to acknowledge that though it was little but you did your best.
Sometimes they feel that you would have gone the extra mile, yet they refuse to appreciate the little mile you have gone.
In our text, God showed us a typical example of a poor man who saw nothing good in the help that his master rendered to him.
To him, his master was a hard man. Why?
Because he gave him just a talent.
He wanted more, yet he buried that one talent given to him and continued complaining.
Have you ever helped a complainant who keep telling others that you have not done much?
He or she is a poor person. Be very careful of him.
Have you ever raised someone whose family had no plan of giving a future yet you bore all the pain to make her or him somebody and at the end, he/she calls it nothing and tells the world that it was their star that brought them out?
Hear me, AVOID such people, because they are very poor.
How?
They don't and will never appreciate any thing good.
They are pigs and the Bible says don't cast your pearls before them... Mathew 7 vs 6.
Appreciate someone who have done for you what you couldn't do for yourself. Why?
Because he is not owing you.
A wise person that was once criticized said to those that criticized him, please wait until you reach at the level l am, then you can tell me what and how to do the things you want me to do.
My maternal grandmother once said,
if anyone refuses to congratulate her for not doing so much that she will use her left hand to congratulate her right hand for doing the best she could.
How true should this be?
Very true.
In other words, someone around you may not be the best that you want him or her to be, but acknowledge the little effort he has put to bless your life.
There are many who expect you to do all for them yet they have not done little for themselves.
They get angry with you for failing their expectations.
Some wants you to carry all their loads, yet they have not lifted a finger to carry a box.
Many want to receive from you yet they have not given to themselves what they expect from you.
That itself is a very wrong attitude and notion.
Have you seen a student who is very angry with the elder brother or sister for failing to pay his or her school fees and provide all his or her excesses, yet has never tried to raise a little money to buy his or her textbook.
Hear me, never give your best to someone who is never willing to give his good to himself.
That means,
don't give so much to a man who does not appreciate the little.
When you think that someone's best is not good enough then put in your best to show the person how to give the best.
When you think that someone has failed in a position, correct him by being in the same position.
When you think someone has not cared enough. care for that person to show how to care most.
Don't seat in a valley and be telling someone on the mountain how to stand.
Never be under a tree and be telling someone on top of the tree how to climb.
In other words learn how to acknowledge people's good even though you want their best.
Learn how to see and appreciate a little effort even if you want the best.
Learn how to recognize people's strength even when they are weak.
In the midst of trying to love, care and carry everyone's load be careful of dogs and the pigs because no matter how much you feed another man's dog, he will still bark at you later.
In other words,
Be very careful when you are blessing and lifting the poor. One who had no plan or vision for his life.
CONFESSIONS :
I recognize every good because my best is about to come.
In the midst of my best, I am careful not to feed a pig. Amen.
Author Pst Chris and Chibuzo Isaac
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