"Let's pray about it" isn't enough

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RedTent

RedTent

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Prayer is such a powerful force is our world. It puts us in touch with God.

When someone expresses a need, it is a wonderful help to fulfill that need. We often use praying about it as an excuse to do nothing for the person.

I need help with a new Christian homeless person we are taking into our home so she won't be on the streets. It is very very difficult. We need someone to help us with her spiritual growth. We are busy with the training her mother didn't provide.

I can find organizations for her. My church has a bible class for her age, but no one in that class will be her friend and if she goes only to find she is not accepted she will be worse off than if she didn't go. Others say to send her to government organizations, and organizations for her kind. She needs a personal touch, not an organization.

God is a personal God, and God asks us to relate to His other children personally with love. God doesn't want you to say "let's pray about it" as a means to absolve all your love and care for others. To give love as we are ordered to do, it requires listening to others, of being personally involved with others. It is not up to someone else less shy, or less qualified. It is up to you.
 
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Spokenpassage

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What are some good ideas or examples do you have that can help be personal, not too personal, with someone who is in need?
 
RedTent

RedTent

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When someone new comes to your church or bible study, often they are looking for someone they can talk to about the Lord, and someone to listen o them. We can befriend them and listen to them.

I don't think it is a good thing to send the woman we are caring for to a class for her age. She is so fragile that if they show signs of not accepting her that would have more impression on her than anything of God she would learn. I can find no church in town who knows of one member willing to respond to my plea to befriend this woman. My church says no.

My church is critical of our accepting this needy woman in our home, altho I met her over a year ago when she lived with my almost bedridden friend and was a help to her. My church says it is the job of our government or organizations to help. We can pray about it, work in organizations, but they frown on a personal touch. God doesn't frown on such.
 
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psychomom

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James 2:15-16
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

I think of these verses to be akin to "I'll pray for you", when we have the means to do more.
Not that we ought not pray. :)

God bless your efforts with this lady, RedTent.
May His perfect will be accomplished. ♥
~ellie


 
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