Encouraging Christians

When people see your countenance, what do they see? What do you see when you look in the mirror? Nehemiah 2:1-2

Nehemiah received the answer to his prayer as he requested. Why? What can we learn from him that can help us? Nehemiah 1:11

How does your thinking affect your habits? Do you have good thinking that helps you overcome bad habits? Romans 12:1-2

When you get saved and start building a godly life, don’t get upset because your old friends don’t understand and try to get you back into your old sins. Keep building a godly life and they will see the change in you and respect you for it and ask how they can change too. Ezra 4:4-5

Saying yes to God daily means saying no to the world, the flesh, and the Devil. Keep building your Temple of godliness and dedication to God no matter what happens around you. Ezra 4:4-5

God wants you to be free. He wants you to be set free through salvation. He wants you to walk in freedom daily. Others will try to keep you from enjoying your freedom in Christ. Don’t let them drag you back into bondage. Ezra 4:4

All of us are born sinners. We are all born in slavery to sin. The judgment for sin is eternal separation from God. Do you want to be set free? Will you accept God’s free gift of salvation through accepting Jesus, God the Son, as your personal Savior right now? Romans 5:15-18

What are your affections fixed on or set on? What goals, when reached, make you happy? 1 Chronicles 29

What sin have you allowed to get you out of balance in your life? Does it affect just you? Does it affect your spouse? Does it affect your children? Does it affect how you provide for your family? Proverbs 23:29-32

Have you learned to love and forgive people unconditionally? Matthew 18:21-22

Learning to be a more forgiving person is challenging for all. Matthew 18:21-22

Have you renounced your sins of your past? 2 Corinthians 4:2

At Jesus’ name every knee will bow. Will yours bow here on earth or in eternity? Philippians 2:10

Facing a great challenge, Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast. 2 Chronicles 20

Jehoshaphat set his face to seek the Lord. 2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat had a mighty army coming against him and Israel. When he heard about it, he had great fear. 2 Chronicles 20:1-3

Many of us have fears that we don’t want to talk about. We definitely don’t want what we fear to come upon us. Job said that what he feared the most had come upon him. How did he live through that? Job 3:25

All of us struggle at times. What is it that you struggle with? Mark 9:24

Is your daily Christian experience a struggle? Is it a path of daily victories? Do you feel like you are defeated daily? Do you want to win daily? 1 Corinthians 15:31

God healed Naaman of leprosy. Naaman immediately focused on heart felt worship of Jehovah and no longer on his flesh. 2 Kings 5

Have you been saved from the eternal punishment for your sin? Has God done something in you and for you that absolutely no one else could? What does God want from you? God wanted Naaman’s heart. He used leprosy to get his attention and the healing of it to get his heart. 2 Kings 5

God has a simple direction for you. It may not be a “great” thing. It may not be a complex ordeal. God wants us to do the simple things and watch what He does. 2 Kings 5:11-14

All too often, when I wake up, I get a plan in my mind of how the day and my life is going to go. The problem is, God and the rest of the world didn’t sync up themselves with my plan. Now I am stuck working myself into theirs. Naaman thought he knew how Elisha would heal him. Elisha had a different, God-directed, plan. 2 Kings 5:1-13

God gave a simple step-by-step process to Naaman. God to the Jordan. Wash yourself seven times. You will be healed of your leprosy. He got mad and vented his frustration. Do you follow God’s simple directions? 2 Kings 5:9-13

When people hear your name, who or what do they identify with your name? Elisha was a man of God. That is who he was and that’s what people identified him as. Do you want to be identified as a godly man, a man of God? 2 Kings 5:8