Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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I just want to encourage us all to open our hearts of compassion. You see, sometimes we get so busy in life

that we don't even notice the people around us. We have jobs, we have families, we have chores,

responsibilities, and sometimes those things can keep us so focused on ourself and what we need

to get done that we forget about the people around us. We don't understand that maybe they need

something from us. And God wants us to open our heart of compassion, to see through the eyes of this compassion

and see what the people around us need. See, God wants to flow through us to other people. He wants to

use us as an instrument of love. He wants us to be the hands and feet of him right down here

on this earth. But we're never going to be that until we begin to understand this feeling that

God wants to put in us so that it can flow out of us. It says in John 317, if anyone sees his brother in need

and yet closes his heart of compassion is the love of God in him? Question mark. You see, this scripture says we all have a heart of compassion.

And it indicates that this heart, this chamber that God wants to work through can either be

opened or it can be closed. It can be shut off. And as a result of it being shut off,

the love of God cannot flow out of it. We don't recognize what God wants to do through us.

And can I tell you right now, God wants to work through you?

He's not looking at your mistakes.

He's not looking at your past.

He is looking at who he wants you to be and the things he wants to do through your life.

Because you are very influential.

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