Care
Last Updated on Friday, 02 October 2009 20:02
Lighthouse Features
Demonstrating practical CARE for people is an important step to being a lighthouse. In this area of the website, we have many links to caring resources. And we want you to go to these organizations and ministries if you are need. But, there is nothing like caring for a person in need that the LORD puts in your path. In this way you are truly serving Jesus. This is what He will say to the righteous at judgment day:
I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.
MATTHEW 25:35-36
In his book, Invitation To A Journey, Robert Mulholland states, "[Christ] gave himself totally, completely, absolutely, unconditionally for others” (41). We can measure the progress of our spiritual formation by our love and care for others. Have we grown like Christ in service? Do we feed the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, protect the widow and child, or give aid to anyone else who needs help?
Do YOU have time and talent to give for the sake of others?
"Love One Another" Bible Passages
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love on anther. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
JOHN 13:34-35
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God' people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
ROMANS 12:10-16
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.
ROMANS 13:8
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. GALATIANS 5:13
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
EPHESIANS 4:2
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. EPHESIANS 4:32
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the day approaching. HEBREWS 10:24-25
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, for the heart.
1 PETER 1:22
Finally, all of you live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. 1 PETER 3:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms.
1 PETER 4:8
All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another.
1 PETER 5:5
This is the message you heard from the beginning; We should love one another.
1 JOHN 3:11
And this is his command; to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
1 JOHN 3:23
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 JOHN 4:7
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 JOHN 4:11
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 JOHN 4:12
And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.
2 JOHN 1:5
