🏳️‍🌈✝️🔻 Encouragement - Day Two – Learning to be an encourager that accepts encouragement from others

God didn’t set us up for an angry rejection, He set us up for salvation by our Master Jesus Christ. He died for us, a death that triggered life. Whether we’re awake with the living or asleep with the dead, we’re alive with him! So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you’re already doing this; just keep on doing it. 1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 {MSG}

 

Rainbow Pastor David

10/11/2018

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Quotes about encouraging others 

• “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Hellen Keller

• “Be an encourager the world has plenty of critics already.” – Dave Willis

I’ve been blessed so many times by others calling me and encouraging me when they had no idea what I was even going through. God loves each of us so much and wants more than anything that we have His peace of mind. When we take the time to build each other up; we could be keeping a brother or sister from falling into despair and turning back to sin. The Holy Spirit speaking through your words could be the encouragement they need to not go through with those plans. Never downplay the effects of encouragement in a person’s life; because we all need encouragement as we walk through this life. 

1Thessalonians 5:11 {AMP} “Therefore encourage and comfort one another and build up one another, just as you are doing...”

Hebrews 10:24-25 {AMP} “And let us consider [thoughtfully] how we may encourage one another to love and to do good deeds, not forsaking our meeting together [as believers for worship and instruction], as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more [faithfully] as you see the day [of Christ’s return] approaching.”

Hebrews 3:13 {AMP} “But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication].”

2 Corinthians 13:11 {AMP} “Finally, believers, rejoice! Be made complete [be what you should be], be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace [enjoy the spiritual well-being experienced by believers who walk closely with God]; and the God of love and peace [the source of lovingkindness] will be with you.”

Acts 20:35 {AMP} “In everything I showed you [by example] that by working hard in this way you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed [and brings greater joy] to give than to receive.’” 

2 Chronicles 30:22 {AMP} “Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good understanding in the things of the Lord. So the people ate for the appointed seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers.”

Titus 2:6 {AMP} “In a similar way urge the young men to be sensible and self-controlled and to behave wisely [taking life seriously].”

Philemon 1:4-7 {AMP} “I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of your faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints (God’s people). I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective and powerful because of your accurate knowledge of every good thing which is ours in Christ.  For I have had great joy and comfort and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints (God’s people) have been refreshed through you, my brother.”

It is so encouraging and spirit lifting when you allow the Holy Spirit to speak through you words of encouragement to those who need it. When you take the time to let someone know how much they have encouraged, it gives that other person a spiritual boost to keep on being the best encourager that can be.

Encouraged to be an encourager 

When the trials in this life seem to be more that you can handle, remember to call on your Heavenly Father who is there to help you overcome. We read in James 1:2-4 {AMP} that the trials we face and overcome helps us to become more mature in our faith. As you mature in your faith you will find it gets easier and easier to become the encourager God wants you to be, as well as the who teaches others how to become encouragers according to God’s will.

The Lord continues to teach me through each experience in this life journey how to connect with others in a way that they know and trust that I know exactly what they are going through. If we have not experienced what the other person has gone through it really makes it difficult to understand how they feel. However we have the Holy Spirit who knows the heart of every man and woman who can help us through those times of uncertainty. 

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 {AMP} “Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts and encourages us in every trouble so that we will be able to comfort and encourage those who are in any kind of trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”

Take the time to reflect on what you have read today. It is God’s will that we not only encourage others but that others encourage us too. Let God bring the encourager into your life to help you be a better encourager.

In case you missed it, here is the link to Day One