Spiritual gifts
The gift of Exhortation & Encouragement
You put courage back into people. You see the person underneath the discouragement and you call them up.
Romans 12:8
“The one who exhorts, in his exhortation.”Romans 12:8
In the church
You follow up after the altar call. You are the text message that arrives on the worst Tuesday of somebody's year.
Outside the church
You are the coworker who keeps the team from quitting, the friend who says 'try again' with such conviction people believe it.
In childhood
You were the cheerleader on the playground, the one who sat with the child nobody picked.
In adulthood
Your encouragement gains weight because it costs you something. You learn to encourage with truth, not flattery.
With others who share it
Encouragers can run dry. Build a circle of other encouragers whose only job is to pour back into you.
Your #GLO plan — Give Light, Offer Hope
- Send three specific encouragements every week — name the thing you actually see.
- Adopt one person in a hard season and stay past the first month.
- Keep a record of answered prayers to read aloud when others lose hope.
- Learn to say the encouraging thing out loud instead of only thinking it.
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