As we near the end of our week on loving people, today we shift to loving those 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.

Perhaps today, God would shift our focus upward

to see the faces we pass on the streets or on the elevator.

How much could a kind word or smile help someone out having a rough day?

Let's try to take our eyes off ourselves

and see those we pass every day and don't seem to notice.

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

Let's find out.

Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Hebrews chapter 13 verse 2.

Scripture says,

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,

for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Matthew 25, verses 34 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 he 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

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