What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. James 2:14-17

We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. 1 John 3:16-18

So simple. If someone comes to you with a need and you have the provisions to address it, do so. Why? What we have is given us by God - our goods and the ability to attain them. In representing our Master we give real help to real people with genuine needs. We're OK with this, generally.

Permit me to posit an application to this principle/command. You decide if I make too big a jump.

Can Christ reasonably expect us to do in the Spirit what he commands us to do in the natural?

'Oh,' you say, 'but they're not the same. Giving our time, energy and material goods is doable by men, Doing miracles is not.'

'Really?'I ask.

'Yeah. We can give a coat to a cold person, but it's up to the Lord to heal their arthritis.'

Well, let's consider this: You're saying that if it's within our means we're required to do a thing. But if it's impossible, we're not.

Question: Does one need Christ to feed or clothe the hungry and naked? The Lion's Club, Rotary Club, Peace Corps, and most community good will organization does the same.

Look how similar these scenarios are:

Natural: You have goods given you by God. Person is hungry. Jesus commands you to meet the need. You give them food. They leave full.

Spiritual: You have goods given by God. Person is hungry. Jesus commands you to meet the need. You give them food. They leave full. Loaves and fishes.???

Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. Matt 10:10

You meet a person who is deaf. Jesus commands you to heal the sick. You freely give them what you've been freely given.

They leave healed.

These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them: And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.' Matt 10:5, 7-8

When did we assume that we're required to give only what is humanly possible? Does one need Christ for that? We are not ordinary men and women.Everything about our faith once was not, and now is. Complete forgiveness. Everlasting life. A new creation - the habitation of God. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also. What was impossible is now normal.

Jesus commands us to give what we've been given to those in need. Doing the impossible is no sweat for Him. He'll do this through anyone who believes they carry the authority He gave them. We can't really give what we're not sure we have.

Doing the works of wonder and power express the mercy and goodness of the Savior of the world. It's what He loves. He looks for sons and daughter through whom He might do them.