How Can I Encourage You?

We must encourage each other.  We can encourage each other in many ways.  Each way we encourage each other is essential to our success.  We are brothers and sisters in Christ.  While we are gravely concerned with our own success in Christ we ought to have the same concern for our brethren.  We show that concern by edifying, exhorting, encouraging, and admonishing one another.  We are one body.  We must strive to get the whole body to heaven.

One way we can encourage each other is in our faith.  We need to keep each other exhorted in the faith we have received.  We need to study with one another keeping ourselves rooted in the faith.  We need to exhort an active faith in all the brethren.  We should be encouraging a limitless faith in our brothers and sisters.  We need to recall the purpose and bases of our faith for one another.  Daily encourage your brothers and sisters in Christ!  They need it and so do you.  We are one body.  “And sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,” I Thess. 3:2

We need to teach and admonish each other.  Teaching each other the word and its application is very important.  We must make sure we are thoroughly educated and continue in that education.  (Col. 3:16; I Tim. 2:4) We must use such education to admonish one another.  We have to keep each other focused and on course.  We need each other to do that.  God gave us and blessed us with a body.  Therefore, we need the body to get to heaven.  “…teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Col. 3:16

We need to pray with each other.  Oh, how prayer can fall to the way side.  We need to offer up prayers for each other.  We need to fervently pray for each other.  Not in unspoken prayer request or vague appeal for prayer do we go to God for each other.  We enter the throne room of God on behalf of each other over specific needs and trespasses.  To do that we need to be real with each other.  Not fake in the way we present our need for trespasses or weaknesses.  “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”  James 5:16

We need to comfort and edify one another.  Comforting one another is so important.  We have such daily struggles that we can become weak and weary.  Sometimes we fall head long into life that we seem to be drowning in uncontrollable events.  We need each other to be there and comfort us.  The same way and in the same manner God does.  Lest we seek comfort from another illegitimate source.  That would simply further the tail spend and the desperate need for brotherly comfort.  We also need to edify one another in down trodden times.  Let us not grow weary of edifying and comforting our brethren.  Some may need more than others.  We need to be there for all our brethren as God is with us.  “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.”  I Thess. 5:11

 

We need to exhort each other so we do not grow hard hearts.  We must exhort each other to grow, work, be faithful, hold fast to the traditions, and keep the word.  We must urge each other on in the Lord daily.  We must charge each other to keep the faith.  We must implore each other to never let go of the truth.  We must exhort each other as it is called today lest we lose the faith.  We must exhort each other with the word in the Lord lest we forsake the truth.  “But exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”  Heb. 3:13

We must see the necessity of exhorting our brethren in Christ.  We must work as a body and seek the salvation of the whole.  We must edify, admonish, exhort, and encourage one another in the Lord to keep the faith and stay strong everyday.  We must exhort each other so we can all make it.  We must exhort each other because God called us to.  If He asked us to, there is a significant need for us to do it!  Exhort someone in the body everyday.  We all need it.