The Message reads in Isaish 58: This is the kind of fast day I’m after: to break the chains of injustice, get rid of exploitation in the workplace, free the oppressed, cancel debts. What I’m interested in seeing you do is: sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless poor into your homes, putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, being available to your own families. Do this and the lights will turn on, and your lives will turn around at once. Your righteousness will pave your way. The God of glory will secure your passage. Then when you pray, God will answer. You’ll call out for hep and I’ll say, “Here I am”.

Proverbs 19:17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Luke 14:13-14 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.

Let’s be challenged today by God’s Word. This is Christianity 101. I implore us all to get it. And walk in it. Be blessed today in His presence!

Kelly