Speak Up

Believers are kings and queens. One of the qualities of kings and queens is recorded in Proverbs 31; they speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Everyone will not have the same ability to achieve success in life. Some people need more supports. Some need less. We are not to harm, look down on or be indifferent to those who need more support to be successful.

Guard your heart. When someone needs more help, we are not to have a bad view of them, or to try to cause them trouble.

Help the people God has put in your sphere of influence, especially help the poor and needy because they are lacking things needed to excel in life.

Don't take advantage of someone's weakness, but find a way to help them soar in life.

Sometimes we say we don't have time to help someone else because we are consumed with our own life. In various life situations, we will need to zero in on our personal lives, but seek God for a way to live by the principle of helping those who cannot speak for themselves. Sometimes we need to cut something out of our life in order to have time to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Kings and queens are not to meddle in the lives of others, but rather they are to consult God as to how to make things better.

Stay alert. If you fall asleep, wake up. We will be attacked with things like confusion hindering us from helping people. We can easily forget that our purpose is to fellowship with God and with other believers in a way that brings glory to God. Jesus Christ was born into this world to forgive sins and to restore a relationship with God.

Don't expect to be perfect in speaking up for those who can't speak for themselves. Kings and queens will not be perfect. When we are made a new creation in Jesus Christ, God gives us the nature of God. However, we have not received the full inheritance God intends to give us from salvation and an eternal relationship with Him.

Speaking up for those who can't doesn't mean that we have to be famous or doing high profile things. We all have areas where we are not able to speak up for ourselves properly and need someone's help. John 5 records that Jesus Christ healed a man who was paralyzed. We may not heal a paralyzed man, but we could provide something to someone to help them get through a particular problem.

Use the gifts God gave you to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.