I am happy to welcome you to \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d! God is so good to all of us! I am grateful for this opportunity to share with you the revelations He has given me. God desires you to realize what riches you have been given through God\u2019s Word. These riches are incomparable to silver or gold. God\u2019s Word is immortal, eternal, life-giving and wholesome, containing answers and solutions. Let\u2019s continue talking about the power of compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus knew all the people; He knew their thoughts that were not always good and pure; nevertheless, He was moved by compassion for them. The Pharisees saw only that Jesus was eating with sinners and thus breaking the law. He answered to them and said to go and learn what it means to\u201cdesire mercy and not sacrifice\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This revelation was the secret of Jesus\u2019 success in ministry. This is the same thing God wants to teach us today. God desires mercy and compassion, instead of sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your house is on fire and you are not a fireman, do you still try to do something to put the fire out? Or you wait around for the fire brigade to arrive? So, what if you have to wait for a long time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What motivated the two supposedly godly men in this story? What thoughts filled their minds? They were \u2018full of the law\u2019. These people thought that they were pleasing God, – since it is not right to be late for the service or rehearsal, no matter that there is a beat up, injured man lying on the ground in need of their help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Levite passed by and the priest passed by; only one Good Samaritan who wasn\u2019t Jewish was moved by compassion, stopped and helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ask yourself these questions: \u00abWhat is your motivation? How do you react when you see people in pain? Who do you want to resemble \u2014 Jesus or a Pharisee\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is crucial to grow in compassion and mercy towards people, because that is what is pleasing to God and releases His power and grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Be blessed! We will continue tomorrow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pastor Rufus Ajiboye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00abAs Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, \u201eFollow Me.\u201d So he arose and followed Him. Now it happened as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, \u201eWhy does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d When Jesus heard that, He said to them, \u201eThose who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: \u2018I desire mercy and not sacrifice.\u2019 For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance\u00bb (Mathew, 9:9-13).","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fruhling-bilder-mit-junge-schafe-auf-der-wiese-hd-fruhjahr-hintergrund-bilder-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39046,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/39046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00abThen Jesus answered and said: \u201cA certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion\u00bb (Luke, 10: 30-33).<\/h6>\n\n\n\n