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What's up, everybody? Thank you so much for tuning in for this week's Monday message. If you hear a little wheezing, I'm having some asthma issues, so please pray for your girl. Anyway, I was experiencing something this week, and I wanted to share it with you guys. And it's been in conversation the last couple of weeks as well. Are we being moved by offenses, easily moved by offenses, or moved with compassion like Jesus? This week, I experienced something while I was traveling where the particular airlines I was dealing with, they all seemed to have an attitude. And I was just like, okay, okay. Maybe it's me, I'm a little sleepy. Maybe I said something. But everybody I encountered, I was just like, yo, is everybody upset? Does no one want to be here? Why is there so much attitude being thrown? And after a while, I was just like, yo, what's wrong? And I said a little jab where I'm just like, huh, this is great. This is fun, after they had such a big attitude. And I was upset. By the time I got to my seat on the plane, I was just like, yo, what is going on? Why is everybody so mean and just irritable? And this is not pleasant. And then I heard the Holy Spirit say, look at their face. And one of the girls that seemed to have just a big attitude, she just looked kind of down, you know, just like, not a happy person. And then he was just like, you need to pray for her. You don't know what she's going through. And I was just like, dang. It's not that I didn't want to pray for her. But it's just I forget sometimes the reason why people are so irritable or so upset, or they just say some remark that they know that he'd get away with or whatever. They just they don't care. They're having a bad day. You don't know what's going on in their life. And all this other stuff. And it's just like, are we going to be easily offended? Or are we going to look at them and say, Lord, I don't know what's going on in their life. This could hurt my feelings. But it's more important for me to know that I can pray for this person or potentially help them throughout their day, through prayer, or even just talk to them and send a smile or whatever else. I don't know. It was a bit it was a nice challenge. I was just thinking like, where are some areas that we all can slow down a little bit when somebody cuts us off on the freeway or honks at us, or gives us that look hurt people hurt people. And as believers, are we slowing down enough to remember to try to look like Jesus, talk like Jesus, act like Jesus, have compassion like Jesus. And I wanted to share this scripture in Matthew nine, and this was Jesus is going going ham, and the miracles and he's just like, yo, you're healed. You get a car, you get a car. He was just healing people and doing kingdom business because that's what he came to do. He is God and God alone. He's just dopeness doing all this dopeness stuff. And so in verse 32, it says, as they went out, behold, they brought to him Jesus. They brought to Jesus a man that was mute and demon possessed. And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke, and the multitude marveled saying, it was never seen like this in Israel. They were like, you know, this is dope. And then but the Pharisees, okay, they said, he cast out demons by the ruler of demons. And this is like, okay, y'all been hating all this time or whatever. But the next verse says, then Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogue preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Okay, so I want to pause right there because it makes me think about when people want to be so offensive. The Pharisees was like, you're doing that with demons were demons power. And Jesus is like, then I went and healed some other people. It's like how much how many offenses will we entertain? How many other things that will we entertain that have nothing to do with our assignment for the kingdom? It says he went and preach preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease. He didn't come there to have a bunch of quarrels and to be all distracted with all the little stuff of everything people are saying everything all the offensive things people are throwing at him. He didn't come to do to entertain all that. He came to bring the kingdom. He said, behold, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom of heaven is here like, yo, that's what I'm here to talk about. I'm here to save the world. I'm not here to get all distracted with everything y'all have to say about me. Verse 36. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered like a sheep having no shepherd. So they had no covering. Nobody cared for them. And he had compassion on them, seeing that they were lost. Then he said to his disciples, harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. So I just encourage all of us that are believers out there to this week, maybe challenge ourselves. I'm challenging myself to every time I come on here and say something, it's a challenge for myself to to just not be easily offended, but be moved with compassion. When somebody wants to hurt us or say something or whatever, pray for them. You don't know what spiritual warfare is going on, what they experienced that day to keep them upset or whatever else. Let's be like Jesus. I don't know. That was on my heart to just be moved more so by compassion than by offense. So I pray that you go out there and release the zeal with compassion and wisdom and love towards your neighbor, which is loving God as well. I love y'all. I'll see y'all next time. Bye.