Compassion Fatigue

What is compassion fatigue and who has it? Who suffers with that really needed compassion for others...........to love others as we love ourselves? Maybe you know someone who has that kind of  "compassion fatigue" for another!

Today we find many people are "compassion fatigued". They rather shoot now and talk later. Yikes!  But to have compassion for others is to know that love and compassion of the Father. He the Creator of heaven and earth. He called God, who planned for man to be made. And many people, unbeliever’s and believer’s today like to play that card of “love your neighbor as you love yourself” and sneer to make demands on others for the vaccination and such! You know it for you have heard it too: “you do this and do it now!”

But Scripture tells us to love God first  and to love Him with all our heart, soul and strength.

Mark 12:30 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. 31 and the second, like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.

So how many are keeping God’s commands? You know the one like loving God first and with all our heart?

IN keeping step with God, we know His love and be filled with that love ( agape’ kind of love) especially when you spend time in worship to Him and in reading 1 John, 2 John and 3 John. But some keep their belief of love is all the same, even like God’s, but it is not.

I know some who are just keeping an agenda for the means to a certain end. But they should know God has the last word in this! Psalm 2:4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. 5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure:

This Lord is lower case "lord" meaning Jesus the Lord. He shall hold them in derision. Yes, have you read the book of Revelation. I am so surprised many times by the though process of many Christians thinking Jesus turns the cheek at every situation of anger or harm. They seem to view Jesus as there but just to blend in. No blending end, one loses their doorway. They try to leave by the exit door when trying something knew like drugs and they find themselves following a path into a brown paper bag.

Loving God is really knowing Him. And knowing Him is through His Son Jesus Christ. And the way is present in Him. It is a narrow gate. Is singular with Him indeed. And we know Him better the more we call out His name, HIM who lives and not by calling out a dead person’s name.

That only brings what dark activity they were in before their dying.

Compassion is only in God and it is where justice is found! COMPASSION: in the Hebrew......mercy....to be gentle to another. ....to have concern for another.........

Psalm 103:11-14...........11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; 
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father pities his children,
So the LORD pities those who fear Him.
14 For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we are dust.   NKJV

This verse in Psalm 103 reminds of His great mercy toward those who fear HIM! It reminds us that His great compassion exceeded what many believed could happen, but hoped for, as the prophets saw the coming of a Savior to the World. They saw the day when Jesus would appear and all things would change for good! Amen.

MERCY: OT: 2617...........checed (kheh'-sed);
from OT:2616; kindness; by implication (that placed toward God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty:


KJV - a good (-liness, -ness) deed, kindly, (as in loving-), merciful (kindness), mercy

So in understanding the compassion Jesus has, we must have that same compassion. It is in spending time with the God of love who has compassion on mankind to send a Savior. How great is His mercy toward those who fear Him. He remembers we are dust!

I think how awesome that when we show a fear to HIM, a fear to our God that He is God, giving an honor and respect to Him, and seeing this beauty and yes as a reproof to us that shows to the outside world we are different. Displaying a character of God, by showing a beauty that is merciful, is displayed in loving those who may not look like us, sound like us and dress like us. We are to be like Jesus displayed for all to see!

These specific ingredients are found in the kingdom of God, is not found among man’s plan or instructions. No the kingdom came through Jesus, and that is a merciful God who desired His children to live by faith in His Son!


Matthew 5:7......7 Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.   NIV

Again these come about by knowing God and His God-kind of love and compassion.

Romans 12:9-17......................9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion. 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. NKJV

So meditating on Romans 12 and starting in verse 9 that love is to be without hypocrisy. 

It is to be a compassion believer that has no deceit, but speaks truth. It is a compassion that has no "masks", no covering up, but a true upright heart looking out for another person. It is one that does not trick another but speaks and operates in an openness to benefit another person’s care.

We become the "good report" on another person. We become the voice that lifts up the weary, the defeated, that one which the world says is different because of color, or ethnicity or even by youth. God created us in His image and that certainly means to look like Him, sound like Him and act as He would act in any given situation.

Our Character would appear as:

1. giving preference to another

2. not lagging in being diligent to do what we can for the weary, like Jesus feeding them the Word and feeding them with the natural to keep their bodies going

3.fervent with a fire in our spirit man to light other's with a fire for the things of God

4.serving the Lord to how He has called us to serve Him.....giving Him glory for all that happens in your life

5.rejoicing in hope with everyone, even the low, the broken in heart, the downcast, those who have lost their effectiveness in serving the Lord

6.patient in tribulation, lifting the name of Jesus and have a camp around the Word that gives a yell that the victory is ours

7.continuing in prayer, just like we saw Jesus do, day in and day out......

8. distribute that which should go to the saints in regard.......to.........their raiment, food or any need considerable for them at the time

9.showing hospitality to those who come

10. bless and do not curse

And wrap all this up in the verse 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Wrap all this in that compassionate love that abhors what is evil and will not participate with evil toward another human being or created thing of God and then have no thought BUT TO CLING TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD FOR ALL!

Sounds easy, right? Must not be for there are many today who are "compassion fatigued"!

Isaiah 50:4...............4 "The Lord GOD has given Me 

The tongue of the learned,

That I should know how to speak 

A word in season to him who is weary.

He awakens Me morning by morning,

He awakens My ear 

To hear as the learned.  NKJV

OT:3287.....ya` eph (yaw-afe';) from OT:3286; fatigued; exhausted

KJV - the  faint, the weary.

Like Isaiah, we can speak a word in season to him who is weary.......him who is fatigued and exhausted, the one who is faint and about to drop. We can speak to someone who "left church" a while ago, and we can speak to the baker or the butcher who just needs the Word of life. Will you speak it?

Pray to have the boldness to speak now to others and speak truth with no masks, no jumping through hoops, but display the beauty of God in the place we meet someone who is weary, dry, and exhausted. Speak in that strength of loving God with all your heart to reach out to others, not for an agenda but that which is life in the Lord. You may be the one who keeps them from making a "bad" move towards another and keep them all safe by speaking the powerful Word of God into people's lives!

 We have such a wonderful view of Jesus and the love displayed through His sacrifice on the Cross. What a great sacrifice God gave for us all! We should be those who will speak as the tongue of the learned. Speaking a word in season to those who are weary, faint, fatigued and exhausted because the Lord called us to rest in Him….to find rest for our souls and carry His presence, that tangible anointing where all things are possible to the believer.

Value His presence above all else. Today, we believe and expect to be that "one" who will move and give the Word of God, that will empower others to be refreshed and keep them from the wiles of the enemy.

God first with all our heart, soul and strength. AND then God in His love in our hearts will flow out to our neighbor, for only then is alignment for truth exhibited and obeyed for all to see the glory of the Lord in this place. Amen.

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Eternal Home

What a grand day that will be when He appears and may be sooner than later.

Was reading an obituary today from the area my husband and I grew up  into our teens and still in our respective homes. I recognized the name of a young man who was son of someone my husband and I went to school with many years ago. Their son being some few years younger than our daughter, I read of his history. I had read the many times he had fought against cancer  and came out victorious. I also read of the healthier lifestyle he worked toward in eating healthy. His life mentioned his marriage and some years later a son being born to this loving couple. And this wee one, too, had some  special type cancer that could be serious for a small child. As I read on of this young man, the survival of his young baby and all the things he, the father had done in his life and read of the whose who in the names his had been listed with as some might know from rock n roll to musical artists and the such. I noticed his date with death and while within this reading I desired to  looked over the other men and women who had passed from this same community in the month of December in 2018. In many of these I saw the obits listed: each denoted " this loved one left for their eternal home"!

John 17:2 tells us that God gave His son Jesus authority over all flesh , that He should give eternal life to as many as God had given Him. And verse 3 of John 17: And this is eternal life , that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Eternal life is found in the eternal home with Jesus Christ.

Within these two verses we find that eternal life is knowing God the Father, and Jesus Christ , His Son, the Savior of the world. Now, not all men will be saved! That is evident today when so many seek their own agendas. But God had one plan and that was for a family! He desired to know those He had created and purposed for this day and hour of time.
John 3:33-36 NKJV  33 He who has received His testimony has certified that God is true. 34 For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. 36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on Him.

Certainly no one wants to think of the wrath of God at the time when one has lost a loved one, and scripture tells us that we can pray for them before they die.
In this Isaiah tell us from verse 21.......Isaiah 59:21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.”

Now this is something that you and I should pray for our grown children and their children indeed!

These are two verses that we meditate on: 

Proverbs 20:7 The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him.

Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

As parents we are to bring up our children in the fear of the Lord...that is to know Him, and honor Him! In that fear of the Lord scripture tells us from Proverbs 8:13..... The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.

In that very fear of the Lord we find His wisdom and knowledge to hate evil! Wisdom is paramount in God's plan. And to live life, is to live for Him through Him. That is receiving Him as Lord and be led daily by Him in all decisions we must make either as the young couple just starting out, the couple with children in the home, and for the older couples with children gone from home to raise their own children.

Each generation will be marked for His glory and to His praise. We are to know Him and speak as He would speak to us to our own children. For death will come since Scripture is clear that it is appointed unto man once to die...(Hebrews 9:27) and then the judgment. And Hebrews 9:28 continues.... so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

Jesus' sacrifice for mankind was securing us to a personal and intimate access to God ( Hebrews 10:22) We are to await His coming with an eagerness of heart and with a victorious cry for we are the redeemed and we continue to speak it! 

Psalm 107:2-3 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

He brought us out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. 15 Oh that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!  16 For He has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two.( Psalm 107: 14-16)

For you and I who fear the LORD we have strong confidence in knowing we have a home with Him eternally. Our lives are lived by faith in Him. Our actions must speak loudly that we live by faith in Him, trusting He has us. Our responsibility is to live in confidence following His rules and commands. They are not burdensome. His instructions allow us to live in His grace and in that we have refuge.

The Apostle Paul wrote this in Romans 14:7-8 that "whether we live...or die, we are the Lord's.

We are to live in God's truth and do what is right for ourselves, our children's and all those we come in contact with on a daily basis.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

That is where the rubber meets the road: when people see our witness is in Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. For when we stand all our days for the Lord, in our marriage, in our work, in our business and in raising our children, we stand giving witness to the One true God.  We endure to meet our Savior face to face and live eternally with Him. What a grand day that will be when He appears and may it be sooner than later!

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Remember the Wish Bone?

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When our daughter was small, we had our family over for the holiday meal. They were new to the area and while eating, the conversation had turned over to the topic of the day: The Turkey!
Yes, we laughed about some momentous moments of getting that "bird" cooked and served just like you see on T.V. or in a magazine.
But I recalled this one time, when I was about ten years old, that when the meal for our family who had gathered at Thanksgiving, comprised a total of eighteen people. Of that number ten were children and the oldest of the group pushed out her chair and ran for the "turkey" that remained from that festive meal. In the process, some things were moved and even pushed out of the way to present the part of the "bird" that at least three people desired to grab hold of and that was the "the wish bone".
Chaos ensued, and much yelling of "who" would take hold.........meaning only two people can hold it between them and break the wish bone, right?  With the battle over, the wish bone broken, I thought of all the hoopla over a...."bone"!
In relating this tale to our daughter, we laughed at the humor and wondered if people still do that sort of thing.
Of more recent days, I remember just seeing a commercial around the holiday season of some younger ones grabbing for that "wish bone" and wonder why or "if" they still do it.

In thinking of our walk with God, we do not need "wish bones". We have His word that will strengthen us. His words comfort us when in hurt and pain. He delights for us to call on Him and delights to hear us give Him praise for all that He has done for us. Was on the way back from a blood draw the other day and praised Him on that trip, both going and coming back to the country. It was a great report. The hemoglobin was around its normal level. Yes, God is good!
I also thought today in hearing a teaching by Joyce Meyer how it is important to have a backbone.

In a prayer meeting about 3 years ago, I remember this young man prophesying about the "church" the body of believer's to have a real backbone. Although I have thought of his given word from the Lord many times in the past three years, I believe it to be so more of the "now word" if you please!

Each of us has to stand. We need the stability and agility to stand and still be flexible....without breaking or falling apart.  In a recent teaching loaded on my "Voice of Prayer" You Tube Channel, it was title The Truthful Witness: Not Based on Lies, False Ideas or Fantasy. We had looked at Luke 4:1-13.......NKJV.

Luke 4:1 -13….NKJV…Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness 2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry. 3 And the devil said to Him, ”If You are the son of God, command this stone to be become bread.” 4 But Jesus answered, saying “It is written, “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” 5 Then the devil, taking Him upon on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, “all this authority I will give You, and their glory, for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.” Hemming in, isolation

8  And Jesus answered & said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan!” “For it is written You shall worship the LORD your God & Him only you shall serve.” 9 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to HIM, “if You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here. 10 for it is written: “He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you, ‘ 11 “and , in their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone. 12 And Jesus answered & said to him, “It has been said, YOU shall not tempt the LORD your God.” 13 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.

In that teaching you will remember if you saw it and heard it that the Holy Spirit lead Jesus out into the wilderness. Hard time? Most likely! But testing does come, and we must have the backbone to stand, yes with flexibility but also with agility to move when God sends us out to do something for Him. That strength comes when we apply our heart to His instruction and our ears to the words of knowledge. As we lend our ear to understand, we are preserved by His discretion working in us. And it is His loving kindness in the daytime and at night, we see and know, His song is with us......it is the prayer to the God of my life and your life.

For if we would just come and hear Him, come and hear all who fear God..........others should hear what you and I will declare what He has done for our souls. Jesus heard the devil speak and Jesus answered with the written word of God. It was not some quote from some guy who lived a hundred years ago, but by the living Word of God.

Will we stand with backbone in these last days? Will we proclaim God's goodness?

James 3 :9-18 Amplified Bible

9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God’s likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so. 11 Does a fountain send forth [simultaneously] from the same opening fresh water and bitter?

 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren bear olives or a grapevine figs? Neither can a salt spring furnish fresh water. 13 Who is there among you who is wise and intelligent? Then let him by his noble living show forth his [good] works with the [un-obstrusive] humility [which is the proper attribute] of true wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry) selfish ambition in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus be in defiance of and false to the Truth.

 15 This [superficial] wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animal, even devilish (demonical). 16 For wherever there is jealousy (envy)  and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition) there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices. 17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled) then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits: it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering and insincerity).

In Genesis 4:9-16 we read of Cain and when he killed his brother Abel. With intent in his heart, he killed. Out of a hateful jealousy he killed him. And verse 15-16 of chapter 4 mentions that God put a mark on Cain and Cain left the presence of God.
I think of Cain being marked because of the hatefulness of his heart, and of his ability to murder. Being marked, is that which marks our character. In being the stable and the distinct reveals the quality of lack of it denoting a person's life. And what character or stength of character and where it lies, will determine the person's life in regard to " the difficult" or "even the hard" in life.

Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying that "reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree."

Are we displaying a mere shadow.....or....are we displaying that tree...........for others to see.

Psalm 1:1-6   NKJV   1 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful, 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so, But  are like the chaff which the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Living life by making wishes on a wish bone is living life in a "fantasy". I am not making any wishes on a dead turkey! Anything outside of God and His ways is considered rebellion, and of rage.........and will not end in success of anything. It will only lead to death. ( remember Cain)

As Jesus, we too, must be led by the Spirit of God and meditate and know to say the word like Jesus did in the conversation with the devil.
Strengthen that backbone. Kiss the Son in submission to His leadership and you will see your life ruled by His peace when all others outside the boundary of God will experience violence and wrath against them.

Lord, You are with us. We shout for joy because You defend us (them). Let those also who love Your name be joyful in You, for You OH LORD will bless the righteous; with favor You will surround him as with a shield. (Psalm 5:11-12)
Amen!

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