![]() 1 Peter 2:4-5 - As you come to him, the living Stone-rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him- you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. “But what is encouragement? Is it just a thumbs up or fist bump when your neighbor does a good job?”Įncouragement is defined in this verse as “building others up–it’s important our words benefit and add value to those who hear them. This verse provides a helpful key to the command of 1 Thessalonians to encourage one another. Ephesians 4:29 - 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. In one month your life could completely change and go to the next level. And it is a required course to graduate from the Daily Text. It is a veritable feast of encouragement. There’s still time to jump into THE AWAKENED LIFE COURSE– COHORT 3. THE QUESTIONĬan you remember the last time someone deeply encouraged you? How about when you last deeply encouraged another? What do you remember about these occasions? P.S. Come and encourage me that I might encourage others. On the one hand it seems simple enough and yet I know there is an art and craft and skill to anything your Spirit does through human agency. Come Holy Spirit, and teach and train me as an agent of encouragement. No-one has encouraged the human race more than Jesus Christ of Nazareth, crucified and risen from the dead-ascended to your right hand-where he ever lives to encourage the saints. ![]() ![]() Thank you for your son, Jesus, who is the ultimate exemplar of both courage and encouragement. In fact, if you can get even a handful from your local church to join in with this kind of sowing work, it will change the culture of your community into a “House of Encouragement,” and if this gets loose into a small town or city-oh my! This work of encouragement comprises the core essence and ethos of what we call Banded Discipleship. This awakening practice of encouragement will change the character of your heart and the climate of your home. To “encourage” in the biblical sense of the term, is to stand in the stead and agency of Jesus, participating in the work of the Holy Spirit, to minister grace to human beings at the level of their inner person, communicating, conveying, and imparting life, love, courage, comfort, consolation, joy, peace, hope, faith, and other dispensations and manifestations of the Kingdom of Heaven as the moment invites or requires.Īs you can see, we are going in deep. But encouragement, as the Bible reveals encouragement, is of another quality and order of magnitude. It’s Knute Rockne to the Fighting Irish in the Notre Dame locker room. It’s the William Wallace speech to his fear-filled warriors in Braveheart. We all understand encouragement at a certain level. One of these things is not quite like the others-Encouragement. S = Sunshine & Scripture (Outside & Inside)Į = Exercise (just do something because anything is better than nothing)ĭ = Diet (fasted lifestyle with feasting rhythms) As you might imagine, the acronym is S.E.E.D.S. So how often do we need to be encouraged?īut encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,”Ī couple of years ago I created an acronym for the things I want to sow into my own life every single day in order to be more deeply whole in my physical body and alive in Christ by the power of the Spirit. And we need it not just every now and then, or before a big challenge or in the midst of a hard struggle or loss. ![]() I have become convinced that the greatest and most singular need people who want to wake up, follow Jesus and become imbued with his supernatural presence and power in the every day world-which is holy love- is courage. In the process, we will “encourage one another daily, as long as it is called ‘Today,’ so that none of us may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.” We will delve into what the Holy Spirit has revealed to us about the practice and ministry of encouragement how it works, how to do it, and so forth. CONSIDER THISįor the next 57 days or so we are going to be digging a deep well of encouragement. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
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