ENCOURAGE
ONE ANOTHER
BREAD
11 Therefore
encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV)
29 Do not
let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for
building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who
listen. Ephesians 4:29 (NIV)
16 All
Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for
every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
12 See to
it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away
from the living God. 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 3:12-13 (NIV)
24 And
let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 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 10:24-25 (NIV)
22 News
of this reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to
Antioch. 23 When
he arrived and saw the evidence of the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged
them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts. 24 He was a good man, full of the
Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord. Acts 11:22-24 (NIV)
10 You
are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were
among you who believed. 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
2:10-12 (NIV)
17 Because
God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs
of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. 18 God did this so that, by two
unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled
to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. 19 We have this hope as an anchor
for the soul, firm and secure. Hebrews
6:17-19 (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)
BUTTER
“Take
courage. We walk in the wilderness today
and in the Promised Land tomorrow.” D.L. Moody
“Encouragement
is oxygen to the soul”. John Maxwell
“More people fail
for lack of encouragement than for any other reason.” Anonymous
“What an
encouragement to believe in God! He is a
God of pardons. Mercy pleases Him. Nothing prejudices us but unbelief. Unbelief stops the current of God’s mercy
from running, shuts God’s bowels, closes the cavity of Christ’s wounds, so no
healing virtue will come out. As far as
the heavens are above the earth, so far is God’s mercy above our sins. What will tempt us to believe, if not the
mercy of God?” Thomas Watson
“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
“One
of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement…It is easy to laugh
at men’s ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy
to discourage others. The world is full
of discouragers. We have a Christian
duty to encourage one another. Many a
time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his
feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such
a word.” William Barclay
“We need not fear of losing anything by encouraging others. Indeed, it is a blessed paradox wherein as we pour out we become full. It’s God’s way.” BHY
HEART SAVOR
·
I am to encourage others in the faith.
·
All Scripture is a source of encouragement both to myself
and to others. It refreshes the soul
like water.
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It is loving to both encourage and strengthen those in my
sphere.
