Four more things that will help somebody this week to be encouraged:
-Use encouragement as an outreach.
If anyone should be known for being an encourager, it should be the Christian. Write a letter of appreciation to people at work, your apartment manager, your child's teacher or your doctor. Often when we interact with these people, we are asking for their services. Take time just to say thank you! If you really want to encourage someone who gives you excellent service, write a letter of commendation to the person's boss.
-We could learn something from the way team athletes freely pat, touch and high-five each other in competition.
Touch is a powerful encouragement. Be sure to be sensitive in this area, though. Ask someone if you can hug her first. And be careful to be above reproach with persons of the opposite sex.
-When you see someone making positive changes in their lives, affirm them.
Tell people how they've encouraged you!
-Walk daily in the power of the Holy Spirit, asking Him to give you what you need to encourage others.
Just as it is impossible to live the Christian life in one's own strength, it's also impossible to freely, unselfishly pour out encouragement without the help of the Holy Spirit who is our Encourager.
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