ENERGIZING
ENCOURAGEMENT
BREAD
28 But
commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this
people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.
Deuteronomy 3:28 (NIV)
17 learn
to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the
fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17 (NIV)
11 Therefore
encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV)
11 For
you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own
children, 12 encouraging,
comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his
kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 (NIV)
16 May
our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace
gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and
strengthen you in every good deed and word.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (NIV)
13 But
encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you
may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
Hebrews 3:13 (NIV)
25 Let us
not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us
encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:25 (NIV)
BUTTER
“More people fail
for lack of encouragement than for any other reason.” Anonymous
“Encouragement
is oxygen to the soul.” John Maxwell
“There
are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or
successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.” George
M. Adams
“Encouragement
costs you nothing to give, but it is priceless to receive.” Anonymous
“On Him
then reckon, to Him look, on Him depend:
and be assured that if you walk with Him, look to Him and expect help
from Him, He will never fail you. An
older brother, who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this,
says for your encouragement that He has never failed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest
trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but
because I was enabled by His grace to trust in Him, He has always appeared for
my help. I delight in speaking well of
His Name.” George Mueller
“God employs His people to encourage one another. We should delight that God usually works for human beings with other human beings. It forms a bond of friendship, and being mutually dependent on one another, we are fused more completely into one family. Work to help others, and especially strive to encourage them. Talk cheerily to the young and anxious inquirer, lovingly try to remove obstacles out of his way. When you find a spark of grace in the heart, kneel down and blow it into a flame. Leave the young believer to discover the roughness of the road by degrees, but tell him of the strength which dwells in God, of the sureness of the promise, and of the charms of communion with Christ. Aim to comfort the sorrowful, and to animate the hopeless. Speak a word in season to him who is weary, and encourage those who are fearful to go on their way with gladness. God encourages you by His promises; Christ encourages you as He points to the heaven He has won for you, and the Spirit encourages you as He works in you to will and to do of His own will and pleasure. Imitate divine wisdom, and encourage others according to the Word.” Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
- · Encouragement builds rather than tears down. It strengthens the soul and quickens the pace of the hearer. It breathes life into a person often enabling them to keep on keeping on. Like a breath of fresh air, it leaves the aroma of Christ.
- · God encourages me to encourage.
- · Human beings need human beings. We were not created to go through this life solo. We were created to need the love and encouragement of others so that by this we might be all that God created us to be – our utmost for His highest. Iron sharpens iron.
