₦Sermon 51
REMEMBER THE POOR IN YOUR LAND
A sermon delivered during a harvest time at Umuozoche Station
“Remember to include the Levites and the foreigners living among you in the celebration” —Deut. 26:11 NLT.
A poor man owns nothing and he needs help from his neighbours. Every Christian is expected to devote his or her time in the ministry of helping the poor. It is really a glaring contradiction to say before the entire congregation during harvest time that we have given our sacrosanct gifts from our house to the Levites, foreigners, orphans and widows — Deut. 26:13 when we did not.
Harvest time is a especial period we’d show more of our love and concerns to the poor to join us for the merriment because God has really made it so possible for us to plant and harvest our crops. The sc
ripture says, we should include the poor — Levites, foreigners and widows in our harvest celebration. Thus, without showing our love and concerns to the poor in our land, the joy of our harvest is incomplete because you have eaten to your fill while the poor stay in hunger.Some of you may be asking within your inner minds why you must remember the poor in your land and what about you – a widow.
It’s a command from God and he knows why he said it — Deut. 26:11.
God knows that he has blessed you beyond reproach and there should be no poor among you — Deut. 15:4.
The land you farmed this year, God has richly blessed you in it – Deut. 15:4.
When we carefully obey the Lord by helping the foreigners or the poor in our land, be rest assured that:
1. You will lend money to many nations but will never need to borrow – Deut. 15:6
This means that many people will bow before you for money, they will ask you for financial assistance and you will lend them. It is really better to lend than to borrow because any one that borrows is a slave to the lender.
2. You will control or rule many nations, but they will not rule over you —verse 6.
If we are willing and remember the poor in our land, God will cause heaven to shower his blessings upon us. May God be with us — Amen!
—————Meditation Point——————
LORD, help me to honour you by showing favour to the poor in my land. Make me a lender and not a borrower for in you there’s blessing. This I ask in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, amen!
“Remember to include the Levites and the foreigners living among you in the celebration” —Deut. 26:11 NLT.
A poor man owns nothing and he needs help from his neighbours. Every Christian is expected to devote his or her time in the ministry of helping the poor. It is really a glaring contradiction to say before the entire congregation during harvest time that we have given our sacrosanct gifts from our house to the Levites, foreigners, orphans and widows — Deut. 26:13 when we did not.
Harvest time is a especial period we’d show more of our love and concerns to the poor to join us for the merriment because God has really made it so possible for us to plant and harvest our crops. The scripture says, we should include the poor — Levites, foreigners and widows in our harvest celebration. Thus, without showing our love and concerns to the poor in our land, the joy of our harvest is incomplete because you have eaten to your fill while the poor stay in hunger.
Some of you may be asking within your inner minds why you must remember the poor in your land and what about you – a widow.
It’s a command from God and he knows why he said it — Deut. 26:11.
God knows that he has blessed you beyond reproach and there should be no poor among you — Deut. 15:4.
The land you farmed this year, God has richly blessed you in it – Deut. 15:4.
When we carefully obey the Lord by helping the foreigners or the poor in our land, be rest assured that:
1. You will lend money to many nations but will never need to borrow – Deut. 15:6
This means that many people will bow before you for money, they will ask you for financial assistance and you will lend them. It is really better to lend than to borrow because any one that borrows is a slave to the lender.
2. You will control or rule many nations, but they will not rule over you —verse 6.
If we are willing and remember the poor in our land, God will cause heaven to shower his blessings upon us. May God be with us — Amen!
—————Meditation Point——————
LORD, help me to honour you by showing favour to the poor in my land. Make me a lender and not a borrower for in you there’s blessing. This I ask in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, amen!
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