Yom Ri-shon, Av 20, 6002 – August 13, 2017

Published August 13, 2017 | By Mark Arnold

Helping One Another

There is a saying that is of uncertain origin. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Some attribute it to Einstein. Regardless, it is pretty smart. The obvious conclusion we can draw from this is that to get different results we must take different actions. If we are to help one another, then what does that look like? I suggest it looks like us acting differently to help others act differently. If we tell the truth in mercy, then we will succeed in helping in the long run.

Proverbs 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Sometimes we as humans have a difficulty with change. We do what we know because it does not disrupt our thinking. Our thinking compels us to action. There is a thinking-acting cycle. If we disrupt one we disrupt the other. To change the results, more often than not we have to change the actions. To change the actions, we have to change the thinking. To help our friends and loved ones, we have to help them disrupt their thinking acting cycle. If we truly love someone, we will do that.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are the King! Praise the name Yah! Let Your will be done here as it is in heaven. Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have transgressed or trespassed against us. Wipe away all thoughts or memories of evil done to us or by us. In their place let there be thoughts and memories of only You. Heal us from the inside. Restore unto Your people one hundredfold all the good that has been taken or held back in any way, and the more besides. Rise up while it is called today, my King, and deliver Your people. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). We ask these things of You, Father, in praise and honor of Your name and in Your name, YAH. Amen.

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