Devotional
Beloved, encouraging one another does not begin and end with your loved ones and your circle of friends, it’s all encompassing. It extends to the people in your neighborhood, community, and the society at large. Many times, you can see things in people that they can’t see in themselves. Encouraging them will instill confidence in their lives and brings out the talents and potentials they never knew they have. It calls out seeds of greatness in them.
Key Scripture
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:Hebrew 10:24 KJV
Refreshing for the Day
Most of the time the seed of greatness won’t come out on its own, they need more of your words of encouragement to come out, they have to hear it again and again. Too many things in our world today reminds the people how vulnerable and susceptible they are, so they need our words of encouragement to come up hither. They shouldn’t only hear what they’re doing wrong, they need to hear words of affirmation, how beautiful and wonderful they are, talk to them about what they are good at. Speak life into them and see them becoming better and better. Stay Refreshed!
Note This
When you encourage others, you’re nourishing and mending a soul, picking up a shabby life and putting it back on its feet again.
Responsibility
So, resolve to encourage others, lift them up, show them love and affection. And most importantly, know that the mercy we show others is the mercy God’s going to show us.
Pause in His presence
Prayer
O LORD, give me the grace to learn to encourage others, in the name of Jesus’ Amen! (Go ahead and pray for other intentions as the Spirit leads)
Carry this with you
Prophetic Word
As you learn to encourage others, may you find help in your times of need, in the name of Jesus’ Amen!
Bible Texts
Hebrew 3:13; 10:24, Proverbs 16:24