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Encourage
Daily
There
is a need in all of us to be encouraged. We cannot afford
to withhold that which helps facilitate confidence and
momentum in individuals who are in pursuit of God, His
will and desires. When people have a need to share that
many times comes from a need to be “encouraged”
– they need more courage! We have the ability
to feed courage and faith into the hearts of others.
Scripture commands us to encourage one another daily.
(As long as it is called “today”.) Many
times people don’t encourage others because they
don’t want them to fall into pride. But in reality
they don’t encourage because of the jealousy in
their own heart or some false idea of wisdom. The faith
of one person to another is very healing to the soul.
Many people have been raised deprived of encouragement
from their parents in early childhood so they are seeking
for affirmation. It is true that our affirmation ultimately
must always be from God. But Jesus also said when you
do it unto the least of these, my brethren; you have
done it unto me. So you can minister to Jesus by ministering
life and encouragement to others. It is not our job
to make sure people don’t fall in pride –
that is NOT our job description. That is the job subscription
of the Pharisee. Maybe if we sow in encouragement we
might reap it for ourselves.
Reasons
to Encourage:
1.
God is the God of all comfort who is the author of the
spirit of encouragement that is to flow in our lives.
2. We are commanded to encourage one another daily.
3. When we encourage we are helping to ignite the faith
in others and in turn we reap back the same encouragement
– so there is mutual edification.
4. When we set our hearts to encourage others in the
Lord we are walking in love.
5. Someone is always looking for someone else to believe
in them – to believe that they can be all that
God has called them to be. You can be the heart and
mouth of Jesus to someone.
6. Being an encourager guards you from being a faultfinder
and perfectionist. The error of being a perfectionist
is that you are easily “discouraged” when
things are not perfect. This will happen quite often
in a very “imperfect” world. The only perfection
we can be desirous of is the “spirit of grace”
manifesting His perfect life to us, through us and to
others. It is hard to encourage someone when you think
they are a hopeless case!
7. The spirit of prophecy has all to do with encouragement.
A integral evidence of a true spirit of prophecy working
in your life is there is going to be a continual pattern
of encouraging others in their own faith.
8. Be a “helper” just as the Holy Spirit
is our helper. He “helps” through us. The
greek word for encouragement has it’s roots in
what Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as “our
Helper
John
14:16-17
And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another
Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
John
14:25-27
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring
to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
John
16:7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage
that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper
will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him
to you.
2 Thess 2:16-17
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. (NIV)
Heb 3:13-14
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called
Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's
deceitfulness.
Heb 10:25
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.
NT:3870
parakaleo (par-ak-al-eh'-o); from NT:3844 and NT:2564;
to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation
or consolation): KJV - beseech, call for, (be of good)
comfort, desire, (give) exhort (-ation), intreat, pray. |
