How Not to be deceived when trying to help others for God

I was just thinking about my soon to be former daughter in law and how she lead us to believe she desperately needed our help, then after all the we did to help her, she completely rejected us and became cruel and evil acting. Then my mind shifted to others I tried to help and twice, we were mislead once when I tried to help a customer in our former business and another time at a place where we volunteered. In both of those instances, we were later falsely accused and one blackmailed me then continued to smear my reputation for three years, the other fired my husband and I from our volunteer position we’d had for a year for what we were falsely accused of.

Matthew 24:4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.

James 1:5 But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and 1without reproach, and bit will be given to him.

Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God – what is good and acceptable and perfect"

John 3:20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

Matthew 10:22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.

Matthew 5:11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

There was another person whom we tried to help and feel that we succeeded. These were done in Jesus name.

Revelation 22:12” Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done.

Proverbs 11:18 The wicked earns deceptive wages, But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward.

1 Corinthians 3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

There was a couple of times many years ago though that we were asked for help where we disagreed and at the time often did and because one of us caved in and we did not end up helping. I know now that by not helping were we not blessing others in Jesus name and in not doing so, we failed. We should have been living and loving witnesses of Christs love as we are called to do, but we missed out on our own blessings as well. We missed the incredible reward of knowing we did something wonderful. I truly believe now in hindsight that in our failure to help one of them that we had an angel in our presence who was testing us because of how God used it to open my eyes. I know now that We also missed any blessings that God would bestow upon us as our reward in heaven when we meet our father face to face.

Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Those failures on our part were due to one of us at the time being a spiritual baby who was essentially starving for lack of knowledge, lack of faith, lack of hunger and desire for pure spiritual milk the other of us being a bit more understanding and spiritually advanced than the other but both still fairly spiritually immature just at differing levels.

1 Peter 2:2 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

Hebrews 6:11 We want each of you to be faithful to the very end. We want you to be sure of what you hope for.

                                   jWinters