So great to have you with us today. And as we enter into this spring season, just let it be a time of new beginnings, letting go with the old, getting ready for the new things God's going to do, and just really believe you're going to come into a blooming and a blossoming season in Jesus' name. But God bless you and enjoy the podcast.

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 ourselves 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.

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