Look around. Notice your blessings and notice the many needs. They are many of both. Some are big. Others seem small. But all are so very real.
When focusing on the people around us, we see where we need to be encouragers. Plan to make a difference in the lives of the people that we encounter every day, those close to us and others not so close.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 NASB
Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
Encourage people. Build them up. Building helps people stay strong, helps us to be strong and for us all to know our worth.
Hebrews 3:13 NASB
But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
The pain and heartache around us often makes us lean on the negative side of things and look at what we don’t have. When we seek the positive and to encourage others, we don’t allow this world nor sin to be our guide.
I challenge each of us to “encourage one another”, to pray for and meet needs all the while seeing to make a difference. Your words or your serving might be the very thing that helps someone step higher or just to keep on living.
Romans 15:4 NASB
For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
I choose to be a “broker of hope”, and that starts with being an encourager! Look around for what you can do something about.
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