How do we bear someone’s burdens? Bearing someone’s burdens can be taking a meal to a sick person, or driving them to the doctor, or something as simple as praying for that person. Prayer is so powerful and it is often the best thing we can do for someone who has a burden too heavy to bear alone. When we bear the burdens of our friends, we have to use discernment because even though we bear their burdens, we don’t take them from them.

A unified, effectual, fervent-praying church is the most powerful conduit that unleashes God’s power, presence and peace among His people. Lord Jesus, teach us to pray.

Ever feel the pointing finger of judgment? What was your response? What does ungodly judgment do to an individual, family, local church, or community? Have you been guilty of ungodly judgment? Did you notice the results? Did you like the results? Our text today describes how not to judge and how to judge. If we judge with godly judgment, abundant life results in any circumstance. If we judge with ungodly judgment, then ruin is the result.