Yesterday, in my morning prayers I asked God to allow me to help somebody in His name every day. Today, my wife looked out the window and asked "who are those people out there?" I looked out front door and noticed that it was a whole family, stuck on our road with a flat tire. Before I had a chance to think I was down there helping them. We got the tire off and found out that the spare was flat too. So, I took one of them to a used tire store that was closed. Thank God that the man next door owned it and was able to sell him a tire (for a little less than he usually does because money was an issue), but he couldn't put it on the rim, so we called a tire store down the road who was just about to close and they put the tire on the rim for a third of what they usually do it for! The young man that I was helping was so happy that he gave me the ten dollars he had left (which was like getting a hundred because our bank account is at about two dollars). On the way back to put the tire on his car I gave him my testimony, it's really easy to talk about the Lord when you have a captive audience. After we put the tire on the car he slapped me five and hugged me and his family and him thanked me and left.
I'm not telling this to get any glory or praise from man, but to give glory and praise to our Heavenly Father. Jesus said that if we help somebody we are helping Him, and likewise, if we don't help people we are denying help to Him. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve my Lord and hope to see and respond to many, many more chances to serve.
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