The Secret to Encouragement

The Value of Encouraging Others

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We've been talking about encouragement and how to encourage others, but I want to tell you a little secret about encouragement that maybe if you haven't tried to encourage others, you didn't notice this.

Encouragement That Comes Back to You

And if you have been a person who encourages, maybe you already know this little secret. But here's a little secret for you. When you encourage others, it actually comes back and encourages you, especially if you're encouraging them in things of God's Word.

Because what you're doing when you're encouraging them is also reminding yourself of the very Word of God that often we need the encouragement as well. So we don't do the encouragement to others so that we could be encouraged, but it is a benefit.

It is something that comes back to benefit us. And the thing is, we all, every one of us, want encouragement from others. But how much more will people want to encourage us if we also are putting on display a pattern, a behavior of encouragement?

Encouragement as a Christian Pattern

And that's something you and I should be doing. We should be going about encouraging others. I hope that as I've done this little bit of a series on encouragement, that you've been encouraged to encourage others, to strengthen them, to embolden them to do what's right, to get out of their comfort zone maybe, and do what you know God calls them to do.

Whatever it is, may you have been encouraged to encourage others. And let me say this to the many of you who've been trying to encourage me throughout these weeks of discussing encouragement, thank you very much.

It was encouraging.

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