{"id":4166,"date":"2015-03-29T06:27:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartofgraceministries.com\/blog\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2015-03-29T06:27:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T11:27:54","slug":"power-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartofgraceministries.com\/blog\/after-the-fact\/power-encouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Romans 12:3-8<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28249\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>3<\/b>\u00a0For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28250\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>4<\/b>\u00a0For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28251\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>5<\/b>\u00a0So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28252\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>6<\/b>\u00a0Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28253\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>7<\/b>\u00a0Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28254\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>8<\/b>\u00a0Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Encouragement is necessary to our walk of faith. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Without encouragement a will with purpose fades unto a state of unrest and unsatisfaction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Hebrews 3:13<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-30009\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>13<\/b>\u00a0But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Without encouragement, life would soon feel pointless and burdensome. Without encouragement, we can be overwhelmed by the very real pains of our lives. Without encouragement, we feel unloved. Without encouragement, we begin to think that God is a liar or is unconcerned with our welfare. So, the Bible tells us to encourage one another, to remind each other of the truth that God loves us, that God equips us, that we are treasured, that our struggles are worth it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">&#8211; Encouragement makes it easier to live in a fallen world in a holy way.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Encouragement makes it easier to love as Jesus loved (see <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>John 13:34-35<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>John 13:34-35<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-26665\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>34<\/b>\u00a0A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-26666\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>35<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Encouragement gives hope (<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Romans 15:4<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Encouragement helps us through times of discipline and testing (<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Hebrews 12:5<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Hebrews 12:5<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-30218\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>5<\/b>\u00a0And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Encouragement nurtures patience and kindness (see <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>1 Corinthians 13:4-7<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28670\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>4<\/b>\u00a0Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28671\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>5<\/b>\u00a0Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28672\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>6<\/b>\u00a0Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28673\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>7<\/b>\u00a0Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Encouragement makes it easier to sacrifice our own desires for the advancement of God\u2019s kingdom. In short, encouragement makes it easier to live the Christian life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Proverbs 16:24 <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">says, \u201cPleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; God\u2019s Word is full of encouragement. Pleasant words, indeed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8211; And even though at times the words of others may fail us we can have hope in the fact that when our strength is little in tribulation that Jesus steps in for us to God by our faith<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<b>John 16:33<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a name=\"en-KJV-26760\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>33\u00a0<\/b>These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. 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