Expanding Your Heart

Devotional From The Sermon: The Cry For Help (Part 1)

Rev. Dr. Bankole Akinbinu

Reading: Acts 10:9-28

Devotional:

Peter’s rooftop vision challenged everything he believed about who deserved God’s grace. God declared clean what Peter called unclean, expanding his understanding of divine love. Like Peter, we often draw circles of concern that are too small. We have preferences about who deserves help, who merits our attention, and who falls outside our care. But God’s heart is bigger than ours. His love extends to people we’ve never met, in places we’ve never been, facing struggles we cannot imagine. The stopping point of your concern must not become the stopping point of your ministry.

Today, pray this dangerous prayer: “Lord, change my heart until everyone in Your heart is in my heart.”

Reflection:

• Who is in God’s heart that isn’t yet in yours?