Be An Encourager

Paraklesis/parakaleo - A call to come along side another...to exhort, encourage, comfort.

(Paraclete - The Holy Spirit)

Deuteronomy 3:28

Commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people...

Isaiah 50:4 (NLT)

The Sovereign LORD has given me his words of wisdom, so that I know how to comfort the weary.

Job 4:3-4

Behold, you have instructed many,

and you have strengthened the weak hands.

Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,

and you have made firm the feeble knees.

Luke 22:32b

...strengthen your brothers.

Romans 12:6,8

We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If it is encouraging, let him encourage...

1 Thessalonians 4:18, 5:11, 5:14

Encourage (present imperative) each other, and build each other up...

Hebrews 10:24-25, 13:13

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Encourage one another daily...

Richard Sibbes The Soul's Conflict With Itself

http://www.chapellibrary.org/files/7813/7591/1657/otscwi.pdf

Happy is he that in his way to heaven meeteth with a cheerful and skillful guide and fellow-traveller, that carrieth cordials with him against all faintings of spirit. It is a part of our wisdom to salvation to make choice of such a one as may further us in our way. An indifferency for any company shews a dead heart. Where the life of grace is, it is sensible of all advantages and disadvantages. How many have been refreshed by one short, apt, savoury speech, which hath begotten, as it were, new spirits in them.

Thomas Watson The Christian Soldier; or, Heaven Taken by Storm

http://www.gracegems.org/Watson/christian_soldier5.htm

In other races, many times, one hinders another; but, in the race to heaven, one Christian helps another. One Christian helps by his prayer, advice, and example—to confirm another. What is the fellowship of saints, but one Christian helping forward another in the heavenly race?

C.H. Spurgeon "Both Sides of the Shield"

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons37.lii.html

It does people good to be told how highly we value them. There is many a Christian man and woman who would do better if now and then someone would speak a kindly word to them, and let them know that they had done well.

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (HCSB)

May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.