Loving Strangers
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Our Scripture for today comes from Hebrews 13:2, and today's worship is Love God Love People | (ft. Michael W. Smith) by Danny Gokey (Lyrics).
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| 0:00.0 | As we near the end of our week on loving people, today we shift to those that we don't know. |
| 0:10.0 | We are all so busy and most often unaware of those around us, becoming too focused on ourselves to notice others. |
| 0:18.0 | But perhaps today, God would shift our focus upward to see the faces that we pass on the |
| 0:23.9 | streets or the people around us on elevator. How much could a kind word or smile help someone out |
| 0:30.5 | that's having a rough day? Let's try to take our eyes off of ourselves and see those that we pass |
| 0:36.4 | every day and don't seem to notice. |
| 0:39.3 | Could God use you to minister to someone that you don't even know? |
| 0:43.4 | Let's find out together. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 1:00.9 | Our scripture today, Hebrews 132 says, Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels |
| 1:07.0 | unaware. |
| 1:10.2 | Matthew 2534 through 40 gives insight into God's passionate love for the lost, broken, and alienated. |
| 1:20.6 | 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 |
| 1:29.7 | the foundation of the world. |
| 1:32.3 | For I was hungry and you gave me food. |
| 1:35.5 | I was thirsty and you gave me drink. |
| 1:38.8 | I was a stranger and you welcomed me. |
| 1:42.3 | I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you welcomed me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you |
| 1:49.5 | came to me. Then the righteous will answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or |
| 1:56.9 | thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you or naked and clothe you. And when do we see you as stranger and welcome you, |
| 2:01.6 | or naked and clothe you? |
| 2:03.6 | And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you? |
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