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How to Treat Helpers!

MEDITATION
DEUTERONOMY 15:12-23

How to treat our house helps, servants and employees

1. Put their future interest, freedom and prosperity in perspective. Don't be selfish v12.
2. Don't use and dump. Have specific plans for their successful independent living v12.
3. In determining their wages, treat them like human beings who should have enough to secure their present and prepare for their future. Don't be like Laban, Jacob's master  v12.
4. Don't be oppressive. Treat them in such a way that they will enjoy working for you and if they are to leave, it will be reluctantly vv16,17.
5. Settle them after they have served you and it is time to release them vv13,18.
6. Don't enslave them. Don't use affliction, deprivation, denials or delays in paying them to drive them away vv13,14.

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7. The reward and blessings that follow obedience and love outweigh the sacrifice v18c. 
8. It is expected of the servants to behave brotherly and sacrificially in a way that the employer will be prospered and happy at their service v12, Titus 2:9,10.
Q Can you mention the servant of a brother in the Bible who got converted in the prison and was told to go back to his master and make restitution?
Q If God would demand a slave to be settled, then God will much more settle His children, including me๐Ÿ˜†.
Father, I praise you because you have definite plans of prosperity and success for my life๐Ÿ™
LORD, don't allow me to stay away from your purpose for my life but rather give me your revelation of your plan for my life and keep me focused๐Ÿ™
LORD, I ask that you open all doors that will lead me to perfect settlement in life and remove all obstacles๐Ÿ™
LORD, come and settle all the jobless, oppressed and afflicted in the church with great testimonies๐Ÿ™ 

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