Walking in Love - Part 14: The Power of Encouraging Others | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:47 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. And as you

0:49 Speaker 2: would have seen that, we're doing a series on how

0:51 Speaker 2: to practically walk in unconditional allow I really challenge you

0:55 Speaker 2: to go back and listen to these segments because there's

0:58 Speaker 2: so many things that you can learn and unpse sometimes

1:00 Speaker 2: it can we just revisiting them and to remind and

1:03 Speaker 2: make sure that you sync with the Holy Spirit to

1:06 Speaker 2: see there are areas in your life where you can

1:08 Speaker 2: incorporate these so that you can walk into kind of

1:11 Speaker 2: love that God wants has to live by. And today

1:14 Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about an important, important aspect about

1:17 Speaker 2: what the Bible says should be our lifestyle when we

1:21 Speaker 2: are walking in unconditional love with towards people. A couple

1:24 Speaker 2: of scriptures and then I want to take this forward.

1:26 Speaker 2: First there Salonians five, verse eleven, where it says, therefore,

1:30 Speaker 2: encourage one another and build each other up. Remember this,

1:35 Speaker 2: encourage one another and build each other up. When you

1:38 Speaker 2: look at Hebrews three, verse thirteen, it says encourage one

1:41 Speaker 2: another daily. Encourage one another, not once in a while,

1:46 Speaker 2: not when you feel like it, but daily. And the

1:50 Speaker 2: Bible also is saying in Hebrews ten that we need

1:53 Speaker 2: to be encouraging one another. When you look at verses

1:56 Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty five and so on. Here's the

1:59 Speaker 2: thing I want to talk about. The commonality of all

2:01 Speaker 2: these scriptures is that the Bible is telling us to

2:04 Speaker 2: be people who are encouraging one another and people who

2:07 Speaker 2: will build each other up. Because a lot of times

2:10 Speaker 2: the focus is always on what will I get from this?

2:13 Speaker 2: What is about me? It's all about me. But when

2:15 Speaker 2: you look at the scripture which says in first Corinthians

2:18 Speaker 2: Septer thirteen, verse five. It says that love is not

2:23 Speaker 2: self seeking because we live in a time and age

2:26 Speaker 2: when it's all about self gratification. What can I get?

2:29 Speaker 2: What will I benefit for out of this? But God

2:32 Speaker 2: is asking us to be people who will walk not

2:34 Speaker 2: from self seeking attitude, but from a place where we

2:37 Speaker 2: build each other up. We want to build other people,

2:39 Speaker 2: We want to encourage other people. One of my heartbeats

2:42 Speaker 2: is always to encourage one another, even if you see

2:45 Speaker 2: through the Bible. The Bible says in Romans chapter twelve,

2:48 Speaker 2: verse eight, that we are those who call to encourage

2:51 Speaker 2: be encouraged. And I believe that's one of my major gifts.

2:54 Speaker 2: I try to look for reasons or look for ways

2:56 Speaker 2: to encourage somebody. Even if somebody is into content creation,

3:00 Speaker 2: I encouraged him, I share their content, or I like

3:04 Speaker 2: and engage with those content like I really challenge you

3:07 Speaker 2: guys to have that attitude of being in a place

3:09 Speaker 2: where you want to encourage them through words, through encouragement,

3:13 Speaker 2: through you know, by actions. You know. I always tell

3:18 Speaker 2: this some I remember this moment where I went to

3:21 Speaker 2: this place where there was this conference and there were

3:24 Speaker 2: people who were selling some things. There and it wasn't

3:26 Speaker 2: very impressive, but I said, okay, let me get this.

3:30 Speaker 2: And a friend of mine was standing next to me

3:32 Speaker 2: and said, why are you getting this? He openly said this,

3:34 Speaker 2: He said it doesn't look that great, and I said, no,

3:37 Speaker 2: I just want to encourage them. And the person who

3:39 Speaker 2: was at the counter heard a tense smile and I

3:43 Speaker 2: could see that she was life filled with that joy

3:45 Speaker 2: like this is this is really really like wow, because

3:49 Speaker 2: no one else was buying. You know, I still remember,

3:52 Speaker 2: even as a kid, I remember this going to carnivals

3:55 Speaker 2: and I would look at people whose shops are not

3:57 Speaker 2: getting any traction, and I would say, I want to

4:00 Speaker 2: get this. I want to get that, like even if

4:02 Speaker 2: it's not something I want to get for getting it,

4:05 Speaker 2: but I just want to get it to encourage someone.

4:08 Speaker 2: You know, I really challenge you, like, you know, to

4:10 Speaker 2: be in a place where you look for ways to

4:12 Speaker 2: be a blessing to people. You want to cheer someone up,

4:15 Speaker 2: encourage someone. You see somebody who's in trouble. Don't just

4:19 Speaker 2: say oh, I hope all is well and just walk off.

4:22 Speaker 2: Be in a place where you're like, hey, you don't

4:26 Speaker 2: feel well, Like are you okay? Let me give you

4:28 Speaker 2: an encouraging word, encourage someone, go the extra mile. Like

4:32 Speaker 2: sometimes I think I've shared this even a couple of

4:34 Speaker 2: episodes back, I said that, you know, when the pastor preached,

4:38 Speaker 2: I just didn't just people could have implicately said that's

4:42 Speaker 2: his job, but I said, no, you know what, you

4:44 Speaker 2: appreciate it. Well today it was great. You don't do

4:47 Speaker 2: it in a sense of saying it for the sake

4:50 Speaker 2: of it. But you know, you need to learn and

4:54 Speaker 2: ask God to give you that you know, strategy to

4:57 Speaker 2: be the right kind of an encourageer. Like you know,

4:59 Speaker 2: some people do not know how to do it. They

5:02 Speaker 2: overdo all of that. It feels like a fake thing

5:06 Speaker 2: and all of that. No, you need to know how

5:08 Speaker 2: to be someone who's willing to go out and be

5:12 Speaker 2: that encourage here, encourage them, build people up. Like you

5:16 Speaker 2: see somebody is trying to do something, Go out and

5:19 Speaker 2: whatever way you can help you. You have a social

5:22 Speaker 2: media feed, you want to share somebody else's work, go

5:24 Speaker 2: out and share it nobody. I mean, you're not paying

5:30 Speaker 2: anything to do that. You're just helping someone. You're just

5:33 Speaker 2: building someone, help helse up. Can you be someone who

5:37 Speaker 2: will be willing to do that today. I challenge you

5:40 Speaker 2: instead of just living for yourself, instead of being self seeking,

5:43 Speaker 2: today ask God and be in a place where you

5:47 Speaker 2: are determined to encourage someone. Say God, help me to

5:50 Speaker 2: build somebody up, maybe through my words, through my works,

5:52 Speaker 2: through money, through encouragement, through support, through posting on social

5:56 Speaker 2: media for someone else, through something. Help me to be

5:59 Speaker 2: in raging towards somebody i'lp me to build them up.

6:04 Speaker 2: Or a lot of people are just in especially like

6:07 Speaker 2: if you look at somebody walking in a calling, maybe

6:09 Speaker 2: people who are going through tough times. You know, those

6:13 Speaker 2: are moments they really sometimes a simple word can help them,

6:18 Speaker 2: a simple act can bless them. Sometimes it would be

6:22 Speaker 2: something as simple as saying, hey, how are you or

6:25 Speaker 2: I'm praying for you. That can be life defining for

6:29 Speaker 2: them at that moment. I'm telling you, guys, you need

6:33 Speaker 2: to be someone who goes the extra mile and encouraging

6:38 Speaker 2: other people. Don't withhold encouragement, don't withhold kind words, don't

6:44 Speaker 2: withhold being generous, don't withhold giving up for people, because

6:52 Speaker 2: you need to be someone who's saying, you know what,

6:56 Speaker 2: it's not just me, We're building each other up. Because

7:00 Speaker 2: today you may not need encouragement as much as somebody else,

7:04 Speaker 2: but someday you may need encouragement. So I really challenge

7:10 Speaker 2: you to make it that commitment to encourage one another

7:15 Speaker 2: in whatever or capacity. See, even when you listen to

7:20 Speaker 2: a podcast like this, you can just listen and just leave,

7:23 Speaker 2: but I challenge you, like if you can come back

7:27 Speaker 2: through social media, come back through the contact form on

7:30 Speaker 2: my website, come back through WhatsApp or some way and say, Hey, John,

7:35 Speaker 2: this message blessed me, or encourage me, or this podcast

7:39 Speaker 2: has been a blessing to me. Or if you can

7:41 Speaker 2: leave a rating or a review. That's how you can

7:44 Speaker 2: practically encourage me in the work that I'm doing. And

7:47 Speaker 2: I really challenge you to do that. Why not for

7:50 Speaker 2: a place like I'm trying to self seek, But I'm

7:52 Speaker 2: trying to tell you to cultivate that quality of building

7:57 Speaker 2: each other up. And when you do that, that's the

8:00 Speaker 2: way we can build each other up and build the

8:03 Speaker 2: Kingdom of God together. Amen. God bless you.

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