*MORNING TEA☕* *SUNDAY 9 AUGUST 2026* 🗓️

THE HEART OF GOD⚓️

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE📖
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)

James 1:27 KJV
Pure religion and undefiled before GOD and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

TODAY’S WORD🍞
In Luke 10, JESUS told a parable about a priest who didn’t stop to help an injured man. After all, he might get his white robe “unclean” and have it interfere with his religious duties. He had all kinds of excuses. But true religion gets dirty. True religion doesn’t hide behind stained glass or fancy clothes. It goes to where the needs are.

When you get down low to lift somebody up, in GOD’s eyes, you can’t get any higher. The closest thing to the heart of GOD is helping hurting people. Don’t be a passerby who’s too busy in your career. Don’t just be someone who feels sorry for others. GOD is counting on us. When you take time to restore the broken, encourage them, wipe away their tears, let them know that there are new beginnings - that’s the religion JESUS talked about. True religion doesn’t judge people to see if they deserve our help.

A PRAYER FOR TODAY🙏🏽
Father, thank You that Your heart is to help hurting people. Help me to have Your heart and not be so busy that I don’t stop to help others. I want to encourage others, to offer them my help, to speak a kind word, and to lift them up when they are hurting. In JESUS’ Name, Amen.

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

Luke 16 v 10.

My brother, let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Good morning! Happy Sunday .