Homeless and destitute?

You are on God’s mind …

If you, like thousands of others in our country, live on the streets and have lost your dignity and self-respect, the Bible gives you the assurance that God loves you and cares for you.

God’s promise:

He will not judge by appearance or hearsay;

he will judge the poor fairly

and defend the rights of the helpless.

Isaiah 11:3b-4a

I will give loud thanks to the Lord;

I will praise him in the assembly of the people,

because he defends the poor

and saves them from those who condemn them to death.

Psalm 109:30-31

Jesus restores the dignity of those who suffer

“Happy are you poor;

the Kingdom of God is yours!

Happy are you who are hungry now;

you will be filled!

Happy are you who weep now;

you will laugh!”

Luke 6:20b-21

Jesus became like one of the poor

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.

2 Corinthians 8:9

If God is on our side we can say with confidence:

With all my heart I will say to the Lord,

“There is no one like you.

You protect the weak from the strong,

the poor from the oppressor.”

Psalm 35:10

“When my people in their need look for water,

when their throats are dry with thirst,

then I, the Lord, will answer their prayer;

I, the God of Israel, will never abandon them.”

Isaiah 41:17

Jesus remembers the poor and homeless in prayer:

“Give us today the food we need.”

Matthew 6:11

*Scripture verses taken from the Good News Bible.

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