A Life Changing Encourager

1/29/17,Pastor Stan Candler

Mark 8:35

Review: what do we need to do to change. Grow up.

— Acknowledging the truth

— Actually choosing to change

— Asking for support

1. The Power of Your

Willingness

A. Mark 8:35

— Being in a positive life changing going force in someone’s life is one of life’s greatest joy’s.

— Does your life count?

B. 1 Thess 5:11

— Being an encourager is simply being obedient to God.

— What this world needs most is relentless encouragers.

C. 1 Cor 13:1-3

— Being willing with the right kind of heart. Encourage because you love them.

2. The Power of Your

Words

A. Proverbs 18:21

— We live in a God forsaken world that is overwhelmed by negativity.

— We are killing people mentally and emotionally with our words. We wield them like daggers of death.

— But we can choose to speak life. We can choose to be encouragers. You can do it.

B. Ephesians 4:29

— Have a ministry of grace by speaking life.

C. Matthew 12:33-35

— What’s in the well comes up in the bucket.

3. The Power of Your

Warnings

A. John 14:16-17

— We are accountability people. Encouragers are to be helpers.

— The Holy Spirit uses other followers of Christ to encourage.

B. Proverbs 27:17

— We all have blind spots in our lives.

— We need others to warn us about what we can’t see.

— Sometimes your warnings will be taken as a rebuke, but they are really redemption.

C. Hebrews 3:13

— Day after day: Relentless.

— Those are the people that make a difference