ENCOURAGE
God gave
Moses an important assignment. Even though disobedience kept him from entering
into the Promised Land, God’s final work for his servant Moses was to use his
spiritual gifts to encourage his young understudy, Joshua. He had the enormous
task and responsibility of leading God’s people in chasing out the giant
nations and to possess the Promised Land. “Your
assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will lead the people into the land. Encourage
him, for he will lead Israel as they take possession of it.” Deuteronomy
1:38
God encourages you by His promises. Christ encourages you with His victory over sin and death and the surety of heaven. The Holy Spirit encourages you to do His will. So, as His child, it is only fitting and right that you act on this divine wisdom and encourage others according to the Word.
Whenever the
task you’re facing is God sized. God will send someone to encourage you. He
knows that His will for your life requires encouragement along the way. Each
day has a deadliness to it that can easily allow you to be discouraged and
dismayed. Therefore, God instructs Christ-followers to encourage one another. (Pr. 10:21,
Isa. 35:3, Ro. 1:12, 2Co. 13:11, 1Th. 5:11, Tit 2:6, 15)
God knows
what He is doing by this command to encourage. When that someone comes along to
encourage you it forms a spiritual relational bond that fuses you into the
family of God. Church, we need to own this verse in Deuteronomy, because Christ-followers
encounter difficulties made from others and our own doing. Encourage your
fellow Christ-followers to meet their trials with patience and stay in the
fight to conquer them for in the end it will benefit them greatly. Help others by
grace to fan the flame of faithfulness—don’t blow it out. Help them remove
stumbling blocks that keep their faith stalled. Speak seasoned words to those
who are weary and fearful. “A word fitly
spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.” Proverbs
25:11God encourages you by His promises. Christ encourages you with His victory over sin and death and the surety of heaven. The Holy Spirit encourages you to do His will. So, as His child, it is only fitting and right that you act on this divine wisdom and encourage others according to the Word.
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