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INTRODUCTION TO TOPIC: Encourage Yourself
Today, I want to to talk to you about encouraging yourself.
In the Hebrew Bible, we do not have a word for "encourage" we have a word picture for what it looks like, feels like and results when someone is weak, bullied, harassed, burdened, attacked, oppressed and slowly, purposely they are made to feel empowered, victorious, more than a conqueror to face whatever is in front of the person.
In Hebrew we say it like this: Hitchazak "strengthen yourself."
or Etchazak "I will strengthen myself."
We use what is called the Hithpael stem which take a normal verb and makes the subject of the verb the "cause" of the action.
In Hebrew you can say, "I went to the gym today to work out" or you can use the exact same verb in the Hithpael to say, "I made myself get up out of bed and go to the gym today."
It implies that something is working against you that you had to muster up all the will-power you had left to make yourself to do the action.
INTRODUCTION TO TOPIC: Encourage Others
We all face the battle against discouragement.
It is essential that we learn to encourage ourselves but you also need some other people….
It is good to have other people to encourage you.
It is not just good to encourage others it is a Scriptural command:
He says as long as it is called “today” - is it “today” yes we are still in a “today” - your job on planet earth is to encourage people.
During Rabbi Paul’s day the believers of Messiah were being painted as criminals, outlaws, scoundrels, betrayers of the roman government and betrayers of their own people.
Rabbi Paul says don’t let your heart become hardened by this deceit people are putting out about others, no, you encourage them.
You affirm your brothers and sisters in Messiah are blood bought, they are heirs and co-heirs, they have been seated in heavenly places, the story is not over for them, God is going to take them to the next level in their lives.
When you get a group of people around you encouraging you and you start to encourage yourself in the Lord the situation around you starts to look smaller.
The outcome starts to look different, the light at the end of the tunnel starts to get brighter.
The sickness starts to look smaller, the crises starts to become manageable, the tragedy will not last, the mourning starts to fade to joy, the hope starts to flood your soul, confidence starts to fill your mind, assurance begins to enter in for the future.
INTRODUCTION TO TOPIC: Encouraged by God
And we are going to to talk about today how encouraging others is not only God’s mandate on all believers but when you encourage others you are giving a gift from heaven.
Whether it is you or another person they will start to hear God’s voice encouraging them, they will start to come into contact with the God of all encouragement.
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When you get to where you can encourage yourself, you got some others encouraging you and you have the God of all encouragement encouraging you you will keep the enemy out of the situation and keep God in the center of the challenge you are facing, the discouragement coming against you.
You will start to hear the words of Isaiah 41:10 (Quote Don’t Screen)
or Psalm 10:17-18 (Quote Don’t Screen)
If you don’t learn to encourage yourself you will only have a temporary win and not a long term victory.
God puts people in your life who will encourage you, should encourage you but you have to learn to encourage yourself to get a long term victory.
This is what David had to do.
Let me give you a little set-up here.
David in 1 Samuel 27 had gotten tired of the duplicity of Saul.
So he took his two wives and his loyal warriors and went into hiding in the Philistine territory of Gath.
Knowing Saul would not try to invade Philistine territory to attack David.
David went into hiding with 600 of his men.
David built up an unlikely trust with a Philistinian lord named Achish.
Yet, David was playing a dangerous game because every time Achish would send David out to attack Israeli territories he would instead attack the enemies of Israel.
This deception of David secured his status as king with his allegiant warriors and he became something of a robin hood for the people of Israel.
Trusting in David’s false reports, Achish invites David to join the Philistines in the impending battle against Israel.
However, the Philistine commanders oppose the alliance and ultimately compel Achish to send David and his men back to Philistia—away from the battle.
While they were traveling back to Gath to meet back with the families the Amalekites had attacked and taken all their material possession, their wives and children probably intending to make them sex slaves and labor slaves.
I’ve been through some hard times in my life but I have never been in this kind of a hard time, this kind of a tragedy.
We understand David’s grieving, his heart is crushed.
Then it says 1 Sam 30:6
His family kidnapped, his city destroyed, his friends, his bravest warriors were all ready to put him down.
Sometimes when you need people the most, the people who you really need to cheer you up will not be there.
These are hard times.
Your friends may not want to stone you.
They are busy, they are having a bad time.
Maybe they are managing a crises themselves.
There are just some people they are conflict avoiders and so the minute the going gets tough, the tough get going.
It is in these times, you have to know how to encourage yourself in the Lord.
You have to draw from deep pockets.
I think David began to draw out some deep waters.
I think David started to reminded himself of former acts of God on his behalf: the lion, the bear, the giant, the worship of Adonai that drove demons away.
I think he started to encourage himself, that if God had called him to be king he would be king.
I think he started to say things like:
I am anointed of Adonai, Saul slew his thousands, David his tens of thousands.
I am the head and not the tail.
I am more than a conquerer.
I know the Lord of Hosts and he will fight my battles.
I think he dug down deep, started to stir up the deep waters of God’s acts in his life.
While eyes were looking up on him to stone him, he was putting his eyes on God to deliver him.
And I think some of you are in this room and right now you are in this moment.
You are in this season where something has gone wrong, life has not worked out, you made a mistake at work, you messed up at school, something you said or did in your marriage and the people who once would have given their lives for you are now turning on you.
Start replaying like David those moments.
Recall those strengths.
Also, replay the memories of others and start claiming the God who rescued Him is the same God who will rescue me.
Some of you would be a lot more positive, would get your joy back if you would learn how to encourage yourself.
Once David began to encourage himself in the Lord something swtiched, something changed with the men that were surrounding him.
Rather than trying to stone him, they decided to take up sword with him.
It says that David took 600 men, then 200 dropped of because of fatigue and some more dropped off.
Seems like David was moving at a lightning pace and he was not waiting for the back of the pack to stay up with him.
He gave chase with those who would run with him and it says in 1 Sam 30:18-19
Feedback loop of encouragement
After David encouraged himself, he could then encourage the men with him.
Then they went and fought the battle and won.
What can you encourage yourself over?
We have a tendency to paint the picture all bad and not the good.
My mom, who outside of my wife, is my greatest supporter posted a video for me a few weeks because I was down in the dumps about something.
The video talked about a school teacher that wrote the 9’s multiplication table but the only problem was that the first problem was wrong.
The students laughed and made fun of him, Pointed out his error and murmured things like “how could he be a teacher.”
He said, “I did not miss this problem I wanted to teach you about a problem.”
He said, “you have done nothing but laugh, heckle and give me a hard time about the one I missed” but none of you praise, commend or value the other problems that I got right.
He said I wanted to teach a lesson, in the real world people are like this.
At your job, they will always focus on the one mistake, the one problem,
The world will not appreciate all the good you do, but it will pull you down for the one mistake you made.
Don’t paint your life history in light of one mistake or two mistakes.
Turn back and look at all the amazing things that you have done.
Look at all the good you have accomplished.
Look at all that the Lord has accomplished through you.
You have to encourage yourself in the Lord (Image)
My mind should be messed up but God…
My family should be messed up but encourage yourself
My finances should be messed up but encourage yourself
How do you encourage yourself in the Lord?
You start acting like if it was true for them, it is true for me.
That is what Hezekiah did.
The King of Assyria was laying siege to Jerusalem.
And Hezekiah went pack to the words of a great prophet of Israel named Elisha in 2 Chronicles 32:7
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