Encourage One Another Daily | Victoria Osteen

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.120 Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.800 this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:50.280 I hope you enjoy this message. Hebrews three thirteen says 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:56.000 to encourage one another daily. Have you encouraged anyone today? 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.320 You have to make it a habit of encouraging people. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:06.280 The Bible says, encourage one another daily. Now you know 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:11.600 it is great to receive general encouragement. It's great when 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.200 someone says I like your outfit. Oh, dinner last night 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:20.760 was amazing. That homemade salca you make, there's nothing like it. See, 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.760 it's great and uplifting to be encouraged generally, and I 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:30.079 think every one of us need to really think about 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:34.480 that and encourage people in general. But can I tell you, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:41.080 I believe when we make a spiritual deposit in someone's life, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:47.320 a spiritual encouragement, that it not only takes their life 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.080 to a whole new level, but it takes our life 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.720 to a whole new level. You see, we need to 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:58.960 get good at spurring one another on. When we love 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:03.400 one another and encourage one another with the sincere love 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.400 of God. You know what we're doing. We're allowing God 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:12.079 to extend his grace through us. You see, when we 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.440 realize that God can use us, that he will extend 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.280 his grace through us, and we say, God, I want 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.080 to be that person. I want you to use me. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.919 That's when you'll take a whole new perspective in how 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.120 you're encouraging people. And like I said, I want to 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.120 be encouraged generally, but I also want someone to make 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:39.480 a deep spiritual deposit into my life. You know, my 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.480 mother is a great encourager and she taught my brother 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.680 and I to really make deposits in people's life, to 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.280 go out of our way to find out what they 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.680 need and give it to them. That's the way I 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.000 was taught. And I can tell you this right now, 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.600 when I think back over my life, I can tell 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.720 you the best part of my life was a fact 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.760 that I can encourage other people. That's been the very 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.760 best part of my life. And I believe today I 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.279 am standing in some blessings that have come to me 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:21.800 because I was taught to encourage, because it was something 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.920 that someone taught me to do and I was able 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.760 to pass on to others. Now, some of you may 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.480 be sitting in this auditorium or watching online and you 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.479 say I was never encouraged. No one ever taught me 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.720 to encourage, and you may find it more difficult. But 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:44.320 God says to encourage each other daily. That tells me 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.760 right there that God has put a heart of an 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:52.680 encourager in each one of us. Every one of us 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:57.159 can develop into a great encourager. It may just take 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.760 a little practice. The way to get it at anything, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.159 it's to practice. You want to play the piano, you 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.480 better practice. You want to learn in the foreign language. 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.080 You better practice whatever it is that you want to 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.520 get good at. You've got to give it time, you've 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.400 got to give it effort, and you've got to think 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.480 about it. And I'm here to tell you right now 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.320 that if you want your life to go to another level, 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.880 be an encourager. Be someone who is sincere to find 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.400 out what people need and to give it to them, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:35.840 to make spiritual deposits in their life. You know, one 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.120 of the best places that you can begin to encourage 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.240 is in your own home. That is one of the 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:47.080 greatest places to start in your own home. If you 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:52.640 make your home an environment of encouragement, I believe that 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.400 you'll see the peace and the blessings dwell in your 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:01.600 home like you've never ever expected. If husbands and wife 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:06.560 would intentionally encourage one another, I believe that you'd see 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.440 your family, your entire family, go to a whole new level. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:17.960 But we must be intentional, purposeful, and sincere with our encouragement. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:24.039 Before Joel was ever pastor of Lakewood Church, I would 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:24.839 encourage him. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.159 I would study him, I would see what he was 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.800 good at. I would tell him, man, Joel, you're amazing 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.919 at this. I love when you do that. Thank you 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.320 for being the spiritual leader of this house. I remember 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.280 reading in my Bible and I would find a scripture 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.080 that would that would just remind me of Joel, and 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.440 I would write it down and I'd put. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.279 It by his the bathroom, in the sink in his bathroom, 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.919 or i'd put it somewhere where I knew he was 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.040 going to be, in the kitchen. I remember one scripture 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.280 I'd give him all the time because God just illumined 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.080 to me to give him this scripture. He said, you 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:09.480 will serve before nobles, not before obscure men. I didn't 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.040 even know at that time what this was going to 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.920 mean to his life or to mine, but He has 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:24.240 told me since that Victoria, the encouragement that you've given me, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.160 the fact that you've believed in me, has brought a 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.800 tremendous confidence in my life. Caused me to really persevere 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.720 and believe in myself. You see, when the one that's 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.440 closest to you encourages you. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.440 It's the one it's the words that mean the most, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.240 Because if you can encourage the one closest to you, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.240 then that person knows that you must really mean it. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.400 Because oftentimes we don't give the people closest to us 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.000 what they really need. We come to this place that 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.560 we think you already know what I think about you, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.560 and we neglect those words that are so sweet to 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:13.040 the soul. It's refreshing to the soul when someone makes 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.760 a spiritual deposit in your life. The other day, Jeel 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.720 was on our back porch and he was looking through 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.280 his phone and I came out and I said, Hey, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.520 what you doing. He said, well, you know what I'm doing. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.240 I'm just going through all my contacts. And he said, 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.600 I like to do that sometime, he says, And then 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.840 I ask God to just kind of show me who 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.800 I can encourage, Just kind of illuminate someone that I 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.880 can send a text to or an email or even 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.200 pick up the phone if I really feel led, and 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.000 just give them some encouragement. You see, Joel makes a 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:50.800 daily habit, a daily practice out of encouraging other people. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.840 See it is there are so many ways to encourage people. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.960 Like I said, there's the general encouragement, which we should 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.040 all get good at the niceties of life. It's the 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.360 special things. But then there are those things where you 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.679 ask God, God, help me extend your grace to someone, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.760 show me someone today. You know, maybe some of you 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.679 need to just mark in your calendar daily a reminder 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:24.000 that says need encourage someone today and go after that someone, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.160 find that someone that God brings to your heart and 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.679 to your mind. You know this passage in Hebrews three p. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:37.520 Thirteen when it was written, it said encourage one another daily. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:43.560 While it is still called today, that sounds to me 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.920 like the writer was impressing on us that today is 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:53.720 the day to encourage. Don't let today go by until 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.640 you have found someone to encourage. But as that passage 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.960 goes on, you know what else it is says. It 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.880 says so that people will not have their hearts hardened 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:11.400 by sins deceitfulness. So that people won't have their hearts 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:16.960 hardened by sins deceitfulness. You see, some people don't know 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:21.320 what you think unless you say it. People can't read 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:26.240 your mind, they can only read your words. It was 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:34.360 talking in that scripture. Also, it referred to the people 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.720 that Moses led out of the wilderness, and it talked 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.560 about how they didn't share their faith, they didn't make 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.560 spiritual deposits in each other's lives. That's why they murmured 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.800 and they complained, that's why collectively they didn't get to 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.120 where they were supposed to be. Because instead of coming 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:59.320 in and spurring one another on lifting each other up, saying, hey, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.400 why Moses up on the mountain, We're not gonna do that. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.600 You know what, God has done so much for us. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.120 And instead of sharing their faith, instead of spurring one 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.040 another on in the faith, showing each other what they've 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.000 seen in each other, Hey, man, I see God in you. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.000 I know you can do this. You know what they did, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:25.040 They allowed themselves to be deceived because they didn't extend 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.120 the grace of God to one another. And the Bible 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.800 clearly says we must make spiritual deposits in each other's 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.320 life so that sin doesn't deceive us, so that we 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:41.600 don't get the wrong idea. I love that because that 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.000 tells me right there that you and I can have 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.840 a whole new life if we will begin to be 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:53.920 these depositors of encouragement to reflect and extend the glory 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:58.960 of God. Listen, God works where there is pliable and 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:04.400 flexible hearts. Some people think if they give someone else 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.680 an encouraging word, if they put someone else on their feet, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.160 maybe there won't be enough for them. Maybe someone will 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.120 get ahead of them. But can I tell you this today, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.520 we don't serve a limited God. We serve a limitless God. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.640 And if you will get used to turn it on 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.319 the fountain, you will see that the spring of water 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.680 will never run dry. You will make room for God 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.280 to fill you to those places of abundance and overflowing. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.240 Have you ever encouraged someone you walked away and you 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.760 feel like you've just been encouraged yourself. That's the way 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:49.840 our God is. He wants to fill you with joy 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.440 and peace, unspeakable and full of glory. He's not looking 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.640 for you to look for man to encourage you. He's 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.360 looking for you to know that when you encourage, then 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.040 you've got a pipeline to Him. 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