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Help Your Neighbor

 

Helping your neighbor is one of the better habits to exercise every day. Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan to show us how we should help our neighbor (Luke 10:29-37), and the goal of this habit is to be intentional every day with helping someone else. Determine what specifically you will do to help your neighbor, and use habit strategies and these examples to help you help your neighbor every day:

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• Love your spouse with all love languages:​

  • Giving gifts

  • Doing acts of service​

  • Spending quality time

  • Speaking words of affirmation

  • Offering appropriate physical touch

• Practice spiritual works of mercy:

  • Counsel the doubtful.

  • Instruct the ignorant.

  • Admonish the sinner.

  • Comfort the sorrowful.

  • Forgive injuries.

  • Bear wrongs patiently.

  • Pray for the living and the dead.​

• Practice corporal works of mercy:

  • Feed the hungry.

  • Give drink to the thirsty.

  • Shelter the homeless.

  • Visit the sick.

  • Visit the prisoners.

  • Bury the dead.

  • Give alms to the poor.​