Encouragement for Encouragement

Slides:

Hebrews 3:13 - But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Josh 1:5-7 No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

What should Biblical encouragement do?

True encouragement is not about making others feel better about themselves, but preparing them to know, obey, and enjoy more of God. -Piper

So what is Encouragement not?

Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates it’s victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Flattery Filter:
-Do I want them to think of me, or the Lord?
-Am I hoping to get something out of this?
-Do I encourage people that have nothing to offer me?

Matt 3:16-17 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

Hebrews 3:13 - But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Matt 4:1-3 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights,he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

Jeremiah 2:13 “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.