Encouragement
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en•cour•age \in-ˈkər-ij, -ˈkə-rij, en-\ verb transitive
-aged; -ag•ing [Middle English encoragen, from Anglo-French encorager, from en- + curage courage] 15th century
1 a: to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope: hearten 〈she was encouraged to continue by her early success〉
Merriam-Webster, I. (2003). Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary. (Eleventh ed.). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc.
I have encouragers in my life that key to my success every week.
Jackie
Father in law Darryl
My son Colten
Encouraging Scriptures
Encouraging Scriptures
25 “This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?
27 Can any of you add a single cubit to his height by worrying?
28 And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these!
30 If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you—you of little faith?
another encouraging scripture that has been running through my mind
35 Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36 As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious through Him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers,
39 height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
Encouragement is defined as
Encouragement: Giving someone confidence and courage to do something.
Manser, M. H. (2009). Dictionary of Bible Themes: The Accessible and Comprehensive Tool for Topical Studies. London: Martin Manser.
Discouragement is easy to find
Discouragement is easy to find
1 Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.
They have no one to give them confidence or courage to do something.
1 Then Job answered:
2 I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters.
3 Is there no end to your empty words? What provokes you that you continue testifying?
4 If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
Discouragement is easy to find.
It is not hard to find friends who will discourage you
Discouragement is prevalent in
Marriages
Parenting
Schools
Sports
My least favorite Churches
300 Quotations for Preachers from the Medieval Church Words that Edify Bring Joy
Words that edify bring joy to those that hear them. Harsh words give pain to our friends, but idle words rob us of the fruit that time would have produced.
36 I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.
We are instructed to Encourage others
We are instructed to Encourage others
29 No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.
19 So then, we must pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.
24 And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works,
25 not staying away from our worship meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
Our gathers are for the purpose of encouraging each other. That is to give someone confidence and courage to do something
Baseball boys story
The Greatest Encouragement Ever
The Greatest Encouragement Ever
1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?
2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.
5 For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection.
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
7 since a person who has died is freed from sin’s claims.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
9 because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.
10 For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God.
11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
13 And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.
14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
Christ death for our sin gives us the confidence and the courage to overcome sin and death.
It is through Christ we gain victory