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Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us and encourage us to be what we know we could be.” 

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you have that person, you have all you need… but today I want to encourage you to be that person…see what I did there? 

 

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Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

 

Amplified :and let us consider [thoughtfully] how we may encourage one another to love and to do good deeds,

 

This verse actually leans toward encouraging people we do not know. The word for consider is the word 

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It means to see beyond what you know into what God is revealing to you.

When The Pharisees tried to trick Jesus on Luke 20:23 it said he perceived their trick… it was revealed to him. We get a spiritual insight into someones life that will encourage them and we may not even know them. 

 

Yesterday at Chipotle with my grandson a man and his wife walk in, he is probably 65. And God shows me over his head the word “mentor” I ask God what that means and said this man has been given an opportunity to mentor young men and he is created for that in this next new chapter in his life. So he goes to walk out…

 

Now you might say “I want to do that or have that happen to me… I want God to speak to me so I can encourage someone” GREAT- but it starts first in the natural. You walk up to someone you know or don’t know and encourage them. Tell them they have a beautiful smile, that they seem like they are in tune with their kids, that the guy at the market is a hard worker… Tell the guy at the gym he has a great build… Find the good in people and thoughtfully encourage them.

You will quickly find that God will then start to reveal his voice to you in new ways regarding how to encourage someone.

 

When you feel like God has given you a specific word of encouragement for someone you need to know 3 things.

  1`-  They may not react the way you want them to. Thats ok, you are doing it for them and not for what you get out of it.

 

  2 - You might be waaaay off on what you say to them. It might be nice and encouraging and even have some specific details… and you might say does that speak to you or does that mean anything to you… and they may say NOPE. Don’t let the disappointment of the moment keep you from staying open to what God wants to do in your life through encouraging others. 

 

  3- You might say something and be absolutely right in how you encourage them… and then if you are like me and so many others that i have talked to, you may push it… you might say “Hey I want to encourage you in your relationship with your wife, just keep loving her and let God take care of her past”  - they may light up because it is exactly what they needed to hear and so you now have a confidence to speak more… DONT! Not unless you are completely certain it is from God.

The temptation is at that point you now try to really pump them up with your own minds point of view - like - “your marriage will be better than it ever has, you two will be in ministry together, you will have 4 kids who change the world…. NO NO NO NO just encourage them with what you know God put on your heart. 

Obedience brings more power and more clarity. 

Therefore encourage one another… IN THE LORD… not in you!