Encourage others through Prayer

Andrew Rappaport's Rapp Report Daily

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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. You know, when you want to encourage other people, the more you remember about them, it becomes greatly encouraging.

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We are commanded in Scripture, encouraged to encourage others. We should be encouraging one another.

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And yet, what we see is we are so self -absorbed in our busy lives, we often don't take the time to think about other people.

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I'm saying this as someone who was working on this myself. But one thing I do know is when

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I'm praying for someone regularly, and I take my prayer notes and I think about them regularly, I remember those details.

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I remember that there was a gentleman named Jason Cross. He was an unsafe person that I'd meet in Union Square every year.

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He'd be there for probably seven, eight years that I had been going there. And Jason would never want to shake my hand.

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It was just one of the things he wouldn't do. And I would always tell him I was praying for him. One day he didn't believe it until I told him

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I was praying for him. He said, no, you're not. And I opened my phone, my prayer list, and he saw not only was

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I praying for him, but I had been praying for his aunt. I'd been praying for his cousin who had been in prison.

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He didn't even know I knew about those details. You know, in six years, he would never shake my hand.

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That day was the first time when I went to leave the park that he shook my hand. Why? Because he was encouraged to know that I wasn't just saying

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I was praying for him. You know, all Christians like to do that. I'll pray for you, brother. And they don't actually pray. But he knew

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I was praying for him, and that encouraged him. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry.