How To support the Widows

 

The widows in our midst need our support, not just sympathy. They don't need our pity because they're not handicapped. As such they only need our support till they find their feet. And the main thing to do is to show love to them. This you can do through different means

 

But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?”

I John 3:17 NKJV

 

How To Support The Widows

1. Words of Encouragement

 

Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

I Thessalonians 5:11 NKJV

 

God wants us to comfort the widows, and most importantly edify them. So, we are to give them words of encouragement based on the word of God. And the encouragement is to help them find their feet faster. Also, the words of encouragement are to draw them closer to God and not farther away from Him.

 

2. Financial support

 

“If any believing man or woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are really widows.”

I Timothy 5:16 NKJV

 

Most of the challenges widows have are related to finance. This is because what two people's money used to manage to solve, only one person's money of the same amount is to solve them now. And sometimes, the widow wasn't contributing before because she was just a housewife taking care of the home. So, now her husband is no more, finance is now a big mountain before her. Therefore, one major way to support a widow is by giving her money.

 

3. Material support

 

At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates. And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.”

Deuteronomy 14:28-29 NKJV 

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