The Kingdom Agenda For Real Life -- Dr. Tony Evans

So, Lord's been dealing with me about something similar in terms of prayer.

He put it this way, that he's looking for alignment, not just transactions.

But it sounds like there was a theme that you talked about in terms of alignment, getting alignment under the kingdom of God.

Do you have any thoughts on that? This issue of alignment is moving where God is moving.

We need to be in sync with where His heart is.

And His heart, you know, there's a statement again in James 2, verse 13.

To the degree that you show mercy is to the degree you can expect to receive it.

So if we look at our own lives, where do you need God to be compassionate to you? And why don't you show that to somebody else so that it becomes a boomerang? Yeah.

Because now you're entering into God's heart.

And when you're entering into God's heart, he can boomerang back to you what you gave to somebody else.

Because there's very few of us that don't need God to be compassionate to us.

Well, the way to get more compassion from God is for him to see you with his heart and being compassionate to others.

And when more people realize the bonus benefit.

Yeah.

Yes.

You want to help the other person.

You want to better their life.

But you also want some help for yourself.

And so there is a dual benefit to being compassionate to people who can do nothing for you in return.

Yeah, that's so rich.

Let's unpack compassion a little bit and talk through compassion.

I hear Luke, the fourth chapter, when Jesus Christ stands up in the temple and there's this compassionate moment that he comes in.

The spirit of the Lord is upon me.

And there's some compassion there because it is...

It is the realization that Jesus is he, he has come, which was the prediction in Isaiah 61 and all of those things.