Encouraging people is a great way to strengthen others. Iron sharpens iron, which means that when Christians get together, they encourage one another and make each other stronger. Seek fellowship with other Christians, and stay positive and encourage each other. Paul says that encouragement and exhortation is great to keep Christians going and make their missions easier. However, don’t expect encouragement to be a one-way street. Encourage others, and exhort the Lord. It is selfish to only wish to be encouraged yourself rather than to encourage others. So, if you ever seek encouragement, find fellowship and get with other encouraging Christians, being sure to also encourage others – it will make you spiritually stronger.
Exhoration/Encouragement verses:
2 Samuel 19:7 KJV: “Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.”
Job 16:5 KJV: “But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.”
Acts 14:22 KJV: “Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
Acts 15:32 KJV: “And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.”
Romans 12:8 KJV: “Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.”
Romans 15:4 KJV: “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”
Hebrews 3:13 KJV: “But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”
Hebrews 10:25 KJV: “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”
