Love Of The Lord

I don’t know if you do this here in India but in America very often in church services the pastor will tell people to go give somebody a hug and tell them you love them with the love of the lord. Do you do that here? To tell you the truth I got really tired of hearing that because it can be so phony. Oh, I love you with the love of the lord. And yet if you’re hungry, will I feed you? If you need somebody to pick you up for church will I go out of my way to pick you up? If you’ve had misfortune and you can’t pay your rent that month, will I help you? It’s amazing how many things we pray for God to do that he wants to do through us. Recently I heard about a friend of mine who had a serious situation and I started praying for God to help her. God stopped me and said: ask me to show you how you can help her. The reason why people are unhappy is because they’re not doing anything to help somebody else. I want to take a moment and let me try to share something with you. I just feel that this needs to be said.

We go to a lot of nations around the world that have been historically needy. Of course in every nation not everybody is needy but in India you probably have as many needy people or more than any nation in the world — hungry people, homeless people, orphans and widows with nobody to care about them. People come and they try to help you and help those people. I share this in other nations so I’m not just saying this to you. You have to be careful that you don’t just get a mindset where you’re always looking for somebody outside to come and give you what you need. We love to come and help you but we want to teach you how to help one another. We want those of you who can to get stirred up about helping people who are less fortunate than you are. No matter how young you are or how old you are, no matter how rich or how poor, everyone has something to give.