Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

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 3, 17, 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. You hold value and substance.

And in your sphere of atmosphere wherever you travel, God wants you to use what He's given you.

And the first way to use what He's given us is to recognize that God wants to put in us the ability to understand this compassion.

And how it works in our life. You see, I believe that's the reason some people are very unhappy today.

It's because they've closed their heart of compassion. They're not paying attention to the people around them, to the world around them.

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