Weekly Prayer Message, Monday, May 25, 2020
The Power of Encouragement
I love to encourage others. I love to be encouraged. Few things in life are more wonderful to me than encouragement. To affirm someone. To call out who they are. To put them in touch with their real identity. To bless them. Speak life into their spirit. To release joy through building them up.
I love to assault insecurities in people. Feelings of rejection. Fear, guilt, shame and self-condemnation. To cancel harsh words that cursed them somewhere in their past. To deliver them from every lie they’ve believed.
I love to tell people how God really feels about them. What He sees when He looks at them. To reassure people of God’s love, that He is for them, not against them.
There is tremendous power in affirmation. You can change someone’s life by speaking truth into them. Telling them who they really are. You can turn their lives completely around. Isn’t that how God has changed us? Convincing us He loved us after lots of us believed God was angry and austere and demanding.
So why not call someone this week and encourage them. It might change their day, week or maybe their life.
Encouraging Scripture This Week – Romans, Chapter 8
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Prayer Focus This Week…
- The coronavirus will completely and utterly run its course
- Wisdom for churches in how to open and stay safe
- The elderly in nursing homes to be soon visited by loved ones
- Mario, family member of one of Little Church attendees, passed from the virus in Mexico.
- But praise to God Nick de la Pena recovered from COVID after a two month battle.
- Alex Metherell, in the hospital with pneumonia after a recent surgery of back fusion.
- Great sight for Maureen Smith following eye surgery
- Mike Hunter has asked for prayer as he and his family are taking a ten-day trip to Mississippi, renting a RV. Pray for safety travel.
Finally: “It takes a lot courage to stay the course in prayer, especially when everything around you is falling apart.” – Benji Johnson
Pastor Jay