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Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:
to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27 NIV
Good to read James 1 from the beginning to give context:
Trials
Humility
Perseverance
Unchanging God
#quickslowslow
To live out God's word
And now how our faith should look in the world we live in...how we should live it out.
The orphans and widows are literal. But they also represent the marginalised, the discarded, those without resources.
Who are those in our world
Our country
Where we live
In our street
Who comes to mind?
Will you pray a dangerous prayer here at the start of 2019?
Will you pray that God would bring some one, some group, some people, who you and I can step towards in 2019
Some one who despite (or maybe within) our circumstances, our battles, we can step towards.
Maybe it's about jumping in and serving somewhere...James is not about programs, but people.
Don't lose sight of the one person.
#dangerousprayer
#james
#james1
#Godsgym
#liveit
#lovepeople

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