Encourage One Another

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      19831016am Encourage One Another - Rev. Tommy Jones

 

When was the last time someone #encouraged you?  I got some encouragement today from visitors to our connect group.  I was taken aback. Usually visitors sit back and soak everything in before they join, but this Christian couple took an opportunity when prompted by the Holy Spirit to give a lift to a fellow Christ follower.  Do we all need encouragement?  How about the unsaved?  How can this help our unbelief?  What form does Godly encouragement take?  What is the difference between God’s encouragement and the World’s?  When was the last time you encouraged someone else?

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THE LIVING GOD – RENEWS

from Barbara's Bible

Hang On!  Have you felt like you are #teetering on the #edge?  This morning as I looked out of my kitchen window at the popcorn tree and it  was filled with #robins, #cardinals, #finches, baby #flickers, and #bluebirds.  I could not even count all of them as they were hanging on twigs, perching, and swooping to get the last of the popcorn before the leaves emerge.  My cup was filled with joy while sipping coffee as I watched God providing food for the birds.   God  renews His creation.  His timing is perfect even to sustain the life of the birds and trees.  We see emerging green leaves on the branches  just in time for the spring growth and renewal.  Those birds count of that tree for sustenance .   I see the baby woodpecker returning to the same crook in the branch from year to year.  Where do you go for strength and renewal ?   I turn to God as He renews and refreshes.  “God gives power to the faint and to them that have no might, He increases strength.  Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint” Isaiah 40:29-31  After the flu this season, I needed to be reminded that God is the one who renews and to rejoice in His care!  Rev.4:11 “Thou art worthy, O LORD, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created”  Just as I had so much pleasure watching the birds feasting in the popcorn tree this morning, I am reminded that we were created for God’s pleasure.   What does He see?  Hang with HIM!

Edify One Another

Bible Audio Blog
      19831009pm Edify One Another - Rev. Tommy Jones

 

An #edifice is also known as a #building, and to edify is to build up.  What does it mean to build each other up?  As members of one body (the Body of Christ), why is it important to edify each other?  What happens if we don’t?  Can or should we try to go it alone?  Are any members more important than others?  When Brother Tommy speaks about the false fellowship offered by the local bar, think about how he would rephrase that today given our newest trend of social media.  What makes Christian fellowship better and deeper than anything the World has to offer?  What does the Holy Spirit have to do with this type of fellowship?

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THE LIVING GOD – COUNSELS

Are you hearing from all the news sources that #counselors are needed to help people #cope with #life and #death tragedies.  Well, I certainly agree; however, who is giving the aid?  I have noticed promo’s for a new TV show making fun of the idea that one would try to live by the Bible.  Today’s supposed intellects seem to promote their own idea of superiority which always starts with “I”.   The great “I AM – LORD” is left out of  priority and in His place the focus has become Me, Me, Me!   Where do you go for help?  Ps.33:10,11 “The LORD BRINGS THE COUNSEL OF THE HEATHEN TO NOTHING -BRINGING THE DEVICES OF THESE PEOPLE INEFFECTIVE.  THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD STANDS FOREVER THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART TO ALL GENERATIONS”   Everyone wants to have the best, most informed, intelligent, physician, yet our present society wants to self prescribe their own reality which is leading to disaster.  In the book of  Job we can read about all the ‘friends and observers’ who gave Job advice during his travail which amounted to no more than ‘just curse God and die’.  That sounds like some philosophy heard today ‘just live until you die!’  or ‘what is wrong is right and what is right is wrong’.  There is no hope or joy in this fatalistic thinking which leaves God out of our life.  Job gave a word to his nah sayers in Job 12:13 “With GOD IS WISDOM AND STRENGTH, HE HAS COUNSEL AND UNDERSTANDING”   My prayer is that we shall call for counseling from THE COUNSELOR….”O LORD, THOU ART MY GOD; I WILL EXALT THEE, I WILL PRAISE THY NAME; FOR THOU HAS DONE WONDERFUL THINGS; THY COUNSELS OF OLD ARE FAITHFULNESS AND TRUTH.”  The Bible does proclaim that God counsels us through His Word if we seek and listen.