We live by encouragement

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• We live by encouragement
• and we die without it,
• slowly, sadly, and angrily

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• Tearing Down Confidence

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Building Competence
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Acts 20

• 1 When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the
  disciples and, after encouraging them, said
  good-by and set out for Macedonia. 2 He traveled
  through that area, speaking many words of
  encouragement to the people, and finally arrived
  in Greece, 3 where he stayed three months.

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Encouragement putting courage into someone
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God is a God of Encouragement

• 2 Corinthians 13
• Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of
  all comfort.

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• 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we
  can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort
  we ourselves have received from God.

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• 2 Thessalonians 216-17
• 16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our
  Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us
  eternal encouragement and good hope,
  encourage your hearts and strength-en you in
  every good deed and word.

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Psalm 231-3

• The LORD is my shepherd,
• I shall not be in want.
• He makes me lie down in green pastures,
• he leads me beside quiet waters,
• he restores my soul.

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• Romans 18-12
• First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for
  all of you, because your faith is being reported
  all over the world. 9 God, whom I serve with my
  whole heart in preaching the gospel of his Son,
  is my witness how constantly I remember you

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• 10 in my prayers at all times and I pray that
  now at last by God's will the way may be opened
  for me to come to you.

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• 11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you
  some spiritual gift to make you strong 12 that
  is, that you and I may be mutually
  encouraged by each other's faith.

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• I Corinthians 14-9
• 4 I always thank God for you because of his grace
  given you in Christ Jesus. 5 For in him you have
  been enriched in every wayin all your speaking
  and in all your knowledge 6because our testimony
  about Christ was confirmed in you.

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• 1 Corinthians 17-9
• 7 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as
  you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be
  re-vealed. 8He will keep you strong to the end,
  so that you will be blame-less on the day of our
  Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God, who has called you into
  fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is
  faithful.

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• Ephesians 316-21
• 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may
  strengthen you with power through his Spirit in
  your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in
  your hearts through faith. And I pray that you,
  being rooted and established in love, 18 may have
  power, together with all the saints, to grasp how
  wide and long and high and deep is the love of
  Christ,

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• 19 and to know this love that surpas-ses
  knowledgethat you may be filled to the measure
  of all the full-ness of God. 20 Now to him who
  is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask
  or imagine, according to his power that is at
  work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church
  and in Christ Jesus throughout all genera-tions,
  for ever and ever! Amen.

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• Philippians 13-11
• 3 I thank my God every time I re-member you. 4 In
  all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with
  joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel
  from the first day until now, 6 being confident
  of this, that he who began a good work in you
  will carry it on to completion until the day of
  Christ Jesus.

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• Philippians 17-8
• 7 It is right for me to feel this way about all
  of you, since I have you in my heart for whether
  I am in chains or defending and confirming the
  gospel, all of you share in God's grace with me.
  8 God can testify how I long for all of you with
  the affection of Christ Jesus.

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• 9 And this is my prayer that your love may
  abound more and more in knowledge and depth of
  insight, 10so that you may be able to discern
  what is best and may be pure and blame-less until
  the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of
  righteousness that comes through Jesus Christto
  the glory and praise of God.

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• Therefore encourage each other with these
  words.

I Thessalonians 418
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I remember too!
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• We need all the encouragement we can get!

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• 1 Thessalonians 511 - Encourage one another and
  build each other up, just as in fact you are
  doing.
• Encouragement builds
• another person up in their
• walk with the Lord.

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• Hebrews 313 - Encourage one another daily so
  that none of you may be hardened by sin's
  deceitful-ness.
• Encouragement keeps you from becoming hard
  hearted and walking away from the Lord.

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• Hebrews 1025 - Let us not give up meeting
  together, as some are in the habit of doing, but
  let us encourage one another
• Encouragement keeps a focus on
  perseverance.

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• Skills Needed To Encourage Others
• 1. Attitude
• 2. Observation
• 3. Counting the Cost

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• Who in my life needs encouragement?
• How can I best do that?

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Encourage one another!