Love ❤️ at Home: When you have No Children you can be a Blessing to Underprivileged Children
By Pastor and Mrs Chifamba
AT TIMES THOSE NOT BLESSED WITH CHILDREN END UP BEING BITTER AND SELFISH WHEREAS THEY CAN BE A BLESSING TO MANY BY PROVIDING A HOME FOR THE UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN
Psalms 68:6 NLT
“God places the lonely in families; he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy. But he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.”
Many who have no children of their own could do a good work in caring for the children of others. Instead of giving attention to pets, lavishing affection upon dumb animals, let them give their attention to little children, whose characters they may fashion after the divine similitude. Place your love upon the homeless members of the human family. See how many of these children you can bring up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Many would thus be greatly benefited themselves. – {Ministry of Healing p. 203.4}
Job 31:16-18
“If I have kept the poor from their desire, Or caused the eyes of the widow to fail, Or eaten my morsel by myself, So that the fatherless could not eat of it (But from my youth I reared him as a father, And from my mother’s womb I guided the widow);”
Job 31:22 NKJV
“Then let my arm fall from my shoulder, Let my arm be torn from the socket.”
MORDECAI PROVIDE A HOME FOR THE OPHAN CHILD ESTHER
Esther 1:5-7
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; 6Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. 7And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
ESTHER WHO WAS TAUGHT BY MORDECAI TO FAST AND PRAY SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM ANNIHILATION.
Esther 4:15-17
Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, 16Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. 17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
The crisis that Esther faced demanded quick, earnest action; but both she and Mordecai realized that unless God should work mightily in their behalf, their own efforts would be unavailing. So Esther took time for communion with God, the source of her strength. – {Prophets and Kings p. 601.3}
ESTHER AND HER FOSTER FATHER ESTABLISHED THE FEAST OF PURIM WHICH IS CELEBRATED BY THE JEWS TO THIS DAY‼️ YOU TOO CAN RAISE AN ESTHER, THOUGH NOT YOUR BIOLOGICAL DAUGHTER
Esther 9:31-32
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry. 32And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
INSTEAD OF LAMENTING YOUR CONDITION AND DEVELOPING SELF-PITY, BE A BLESSING TO THE LESS FORTUNATE AND GOD WILL REWARD YOU WHEN HE COMES
Hebrews 6:10 NKJV
“For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.”
Matthew 25:34-36 NKJV
“Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry...
Matthew 25:40 NKJV
“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’”
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