![]() Through every heartache and conflict, continue to broadcast the truth of Your word into our hearts. You promise to strengthen us and uphold us. You remind us to be strong and courageous, to rely on You for strength, and not to fear. When the world seems to press into our lives harder than we can bear, we know we are never holding on alone. In Your Word we are upheld and in Your arms we throw our anxieties and find safety and protection. We fear losing our lives and our loved ones, disease and disaster. Disastrous weather events and horrific acts of violence. There is grave injustice, oppression, and unfairness everywhere we look. There is much to fear and be frustrated about in this life on earth. When we are down, send Your Holy Spirit to remind us of Your loving kindness. You number our days and surround us with Your love. Father, you weave our stories throughout ancient history and onto tomorrow. Your merciful hand has purposed our lives, and we cannot outrun your love or free gift of salvation by Jesus’ sacrifice for us. ![]() Remind us when we falter and fail that You uphold us. As you encourage us, let us be an encouragement to those around us. We can do all things through You …for You are the source of our strength. This is the day you have made, we will rejoice and be glad in it! For You promise Your beloved rest between Your shoulders. What a promise and an encouragement to know how close our great God is! We are encouraged when we read His Truth, pray His Truth, and Trust Him for Who He says He is and Whose we are. The stories of Scripture are weaved into our stories by the loving hand of our Creator. We need to be encouraged, inspired, reminded, where our hope comes from. Our joy doesn’t falter and fade through hard circumstances.Īs Christians, we can be real about seasons of suffering that stretch us beyond what we think we can survive. The Bible tells us to take captive every thought, I believe to remember God and be encouraged. To be Biblically encouraged is to be connected to Christ, and to allow Him to affect our everyday life. The Holy Spirit translates, applies, reminds and inspires God’s Truth-Jesus-the Living Word. We carry all of it with us, in us, and always, as followers of Christ. Jesus’ life on earth was full of courageous acts, truth and inspiration, miracles and messages. To be encouraged is to be inspired with courage. Our enemy will try every trick to unravel our confidence in Christ. We need to be encouraged because we are imperfect, and under attack. We are prone to wander, doubt, and get lost along the way. Our human nature is the reason we need to be encouraged. Jesus, the living Word of God, chose to come to earth and spent much of His time encouraging and admonishing us. ![]() Stories like this are woven throughout Scripture. ![]() Paul’s infamous prose, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me,” reflects a deep-rooted heritage of the hand of God’s mercy. Paul’s letters and prayers of encouragement are some of the most inspirational messages in Scripture. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death- even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Philippians 2:1-11 NIV 1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
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