Encouragement

What helps a person bear the trouble in their heart? Are there special things that need to be done for them or are resources necessary in their lives?  

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.  (Proverbs 14:10)

From the scriptures we can see one thing for certain, it is not a stranger, but a friend.  A stranger may think to bring cheer to the troubled in heart, but the joy of one person does not resonate joy in others.  However a friend can help bear the burden, express empathy and point them to truth where hope and joy can be found.

Work now to establish relationships with people.  Because these relationships can become open opportunities that the Lord may use you to bring them truth to them.

Your Story (Luke 8:39)

 

Our lives should be showing the great things that God is doing in them.  It isn't what we are now doing with our lives, but what he has done to us on the inside.

Religion can cause people to serve and even clean the inside of the cup, but God's hidden work can never be duplicated.  We can never fill the emptiness, but God can. We can never remove our shame, but God can blot it out.  The nets of fear and insecurity, which grip us can never be escaped, but God can deliver us from them.

The struggles that brought you to Christ are the very areas of your life upon which he has done his greatest work.  This is what your life must declare.

The maniac of Gadera was delivered.  The woman with the issue of blood was cleansed.  What's your story?

Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee.  Luke 8:39