Enjoying God and Other Rare Events - Steve Sampson
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How to Grow <strong>and</strong> Cause<br />
5<br />
<strong>Other</strong>s to Grow<br />
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“Therefore comfort each other <strong>and</strong> edify one another,<br />
just as you also are doing”<br />
1 Thessalonians 5:11.<br />
veryone thrives on encouragement. Encouragement brings<br />
growth <strong>and</strong> confidence. Criticism brings discouragement<br />
<strong>and</strong> despair. <strong>God</strong> comm<strong>and</strong>s us to encourage one another.<br />
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as<br />
is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, <strong>and</strong> so<br />
much the more as you see the day approaching”<br />
Hebrews 10:25.<br />
How can we love our neighbor as ourselves without<br />
encouraging him? To love someone <strong>and</strong> not encourage him is a<br />
contradiction. A simple, uplifting comment has changed the<br />
course of many a day <strong>and</strong> life.<br />
Children need discipline <strong>and</strong> correction, but they also need<br />
encouragement. Praise instills confidence. In fact, the direction a<br />
child is encouraged in, he will usually excel in. Many children<br />
grow up to be successes or failures depending largely upon what<br />
their fathers told them. Words of praise form an image of<br />
ourselves. What we think inwardly is what we will perform<br />
outwardly, because we will live up to what we believe about<br />
ourselves in our heart.<br />
Giving Out<br />
The problem most of us have is not receiving, but giving<br />
out! But we do not grow as much by receiving as we grow by<br />
giving. The flow of the Holy Spirit through us releases the<br />
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