Encouragement

Greetings! Praise the Lord for how he is continually encouraging. Praise the Lord for the time I have to spend in his word!

I was recently doing a Bible study on encouragement and ran across a scripture that blessed me very much.

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

It is a daily struggle to remember that God already knows my future and knows His timing for every gift under Heaven. If I keep praying for His will and my actions reflect this desire for my life then I will keep having peace that God has me right where he needs me.

I am called to be an encouragement for others. Often times I feel like I have nothing more to give. In times like this I must remember that it is God that fills me with what to give. I have nothing to give on my own. I am an empty vessel by God's design and if I remember this then I have everything to give to others, the love of Christ that is the perfect gift. It is God that fills me up with His word to share with all of you.

How do I encourage my sister that says "I am broken"?

I know I have said this a time or two. I always expressed it as if I couldn't give this one thing to my husband. When I told him this he was gracious enough to say to me: "You give me so much. I am blessed to have you in my life". (what a good man) Still I thought of myself as broken... and I prayed. I came to the following conclusion that I was broken in a different way than my worldly body. The world would like to put a label on me as broken because I have not conceived. I have come to embrace this wonderful label. I am broken in every way and in the hands of my creator. I cry out and he comforts me, he bears my struggle with me and this comforts me, I praise Him and he hears me. He is the only one who knows how to put me back together again. He will do His will. Amen.

To God be the Glory for my life, the life of my husband, for all of you and for the future he has planned out perfectly for all of us.

Go forth with peace, joy, and strength in the encouragement from the God of eternal encouragement. Be blessed.