Sunday Sermon on Thankfulness # 3

Lately, Preacher has been doing a series on Thankfulness for the month of November. Yesterday (November 14th), he talked about encouraging your encourager.

Encourage means to urge forward. However, when we encourage, we also benefit from it. He said that "It helps when you have no one to encourage you to go encourage someone else." It is a blessing to be a blessing. He also said, "Be good to everybody because everybody is having a bad day."

Three things to be encouraged in were:

Yourself

• I Samuel 30:6, "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God."

Others

• Isaiah 41:7 "So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved."

Others to Encourage Others

• II Samuel 11:25 "Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house."