As we near the end of our week on loving people, today we shift to those that we don't know.

We are all so busy and most often unaware of those around us, becoming too focused on ourselves

to notice others. But perhaps today, God would shift our focus upward to see the faces that we pass

on the streets or the people around us on an elevator. How much could a kind word or smile help someone

out that's having a rough day? Let's try to take our eyes off of ourselves and see those that we pass

every day and don't seem to notice.

Could God use you to minister to someone that you don't even know?

Let's find out together.

Welcome to the first of team podcast.

Our scripture today, Hebrews 132 says, Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,

for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.

Matthew 2534 through 40 gives insight into God's passionate love for the lost, broken, and alienated.

Scripture says, then the king will say to those on his right, come, you who are blessed by my father,

inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation

of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me drink.

I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.

Then the righteous will answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or thirsty

and give you drink? And when did we see you as stranger and welcome you or naked and clothe you?

And when do we see you sick or in prison and visit you?

And the king will answer them, truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least

of these, my brothers, you did it to me.

The world around you is living every day,

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