The Duty of Encouragement
Uplift & Support
Scripture
1 Thessalonians 5:11
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”
Devotion
Encouragement is a spiritual gift and a moral duty. When you lift others up, you raise the entire community. One person's encouragement can change another person's day, their courage, their trajectory. Scripture teaches that we are to encourage one another and build each other up. Look for opportunities to encourage someone today. See their potential and speak it into being. Be the person who believes in people.
Today’s Step
Encourage someone today. Specifically. Tell them something true about their strength, potential, or character. Watch what it does for them.
Prayer
God, help me to see people's potential and to speak it into being. Help me to encourage others generously and sincerely. Help me to be someone who lifts others up rather than tears them down. Let my words be a blessing.