Encourage!
Blessings Folk!!
Often it is difficult.
To press on in that which you are doing...in that which you believe the Lord is leading.
Most of us receive little, if any, encouragement and exhortation...even from the Body of Christ.
We receive plenty of “input”, “correction” and the like. People are always willing to point of that which is lacking, that which is wrong, that which could be improved. But, rare is the person that speaks forth the Word of love and encouragement.
Let’s look some at encouragement.
1 Thess 5:11
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another,
just as you also are doing.
NASU
In this verse we see that we are to encourage one another.
We are to build up one another.
The Body at Thessolanica was doing so, yet Paul wanted them to excel still more.
One very important word needs to be observed. Did you see it?
“Therefore”…
Y’all know what that means….”when you see ‘therefore’, look to see what it is there for”.
This will shock some of you.
This will exhort others.
Paul spent only a few short weeks with this group.
He was then “run outta town” by the religious rulers.
Yet, in that brief time, Paul told them about the return of the Lord.
Most of the Body of Christ do not know these truths.
If they do, they often pervert them to their own interpretation.
Read carefully.
Read in the Spirit.
1 Thess 5:1-11
5 Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you.
2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
3 While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;
5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
6 so then let us not asleep as bothers do, but let us be alert and sober.
7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
NASU
We are to encourage one another in these truths..
as to the times and epochs, the Lord has revealed much...all we need to know!
the Day of the Lord will not overtake us as thief in the night...it will be a thief to the world...but, we who are in the light, will not be surprised!
we are sons of light
we are sons of day
be alert
be sober
put on the breastplate of faith and love
put on the helmet of the hope of our salvation
we are not destined for the wrath of God!!
we are destined for salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ!!
we will live together with Him
Today, encourage one another with these words.
Encourage all!
Encourage your boss.
Encourage your employees.
Encourage your spouse.
Encourage your children.
Encourage your friends.
Encourage your enemies.
Speak forth words of love and encourage, then, bring forth the word of exhortation if needed...more later...
Today’s reading in the “So That’s Why Bible” consists of pp. 195-200. Numbers 17-21.
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