When was the last time you were encouraged? whether it was on a sports team and your teammates were cheering you on or a friend of yours complimented you on doing something really cool.  When was it?  was it yesterday? 4 days ago? 2 weeks ago? 3 months ago?  a year ago?  6 years ago?

 

once you have been able to figure that out, I want you to think about the last time you remember encouraging someone. Odds are that you were encouraged [unless you are on a sports team] more recently that you can remember you encouraged someone.  

 

This past summer and the weeks since, I have tried something new… Encourage someone daily! when you encourage someone and you are in the habit of making sure you have encouraged someone each day… you become to shape your heart into a humble heart and one the prefers to serve than be served.  

 

What every person in the world encouraged one other person every day… what would our world look like?  any wars?  any political issues, Hate crimes? 

 

its really cool to see that when you encourage someone how they instantly begin to change… the first thing I have noticed is that most people are immediately looking for something to complement you on [or me in this case]. A lot of times, they like to encourage me or complement me on encouraging me… [if you can’t see the pattern here you should know that is going in circles].  

 

so let me leave you with this… Who have you encouraged today? who is someone who you think may need encouragement today?  Is there someone you know that is struggling with a relationship with a friend? someone who has been sucked into the wrong crowd of friends? maybe there is someone who you hang out with everyday that is struggling with issues at home in their family.  But maybe someone near you is dealing with not only what is at home and their relationships, but maybe has a low self-esteem and lack confidence in themselves. 

 

 

find those people… and encourage them.  

 

“encourage someone every day”  - Louie Giglio.

 

L.

 

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I was at Barnes and Noble the other day and God spoke directly to me… It was one of those moments when you catch yourself laughing at something and then two seconds later you pause to realize that there is such a deeper meaning to what you are wanting to poke fun at.  Has this ever happened to you?  I feel like it happens to me all the time.  I can be in the most strange places, like a bookstore, and God will have something humorous to reveal some very profound truth in my life.  

 

Contrary to what some may say, I was actually in B&N trying to buy a book [I know, thats not like me]. When I was standing in line to check out there was a little girl, probably no older than 5 or 6, playing with her ‘My Little Pony’ on the book shelf.  She was talking up a storm with herself. It went a little bit like this: 

 

“hey julie, do you want to go to the park later?” 

“yes, I would love to come, but I have to get some things done back at the farm, mommy has some stuff for me to do.”

“ok, well just meet me over there when you are done!”

“ok, I will.”

 

She had entered another whole world.  A world outside the B&N that I was standing in and beyond the world of her 5 year old body.  She was in a world where the bookshelf had become a large green pasture where pony’s can talk and go to the pony park and mommys with farms and chores.  She was in such a different world that when she said the word “mommy” and her mom said, “yes?” the little girl didn’t even realize she was being talked to.

 

 

Have you ever been in this place before?  I’m not talking about playing with pony’s when you are 5 years old.  I’m asking you if you have every been in a completely different world with God before? you know, getting to the place where you are so on fire for what he is doing in your life, you miss the fact that there is someone [who is trying to distract you] talking to you?  those times where you are able to focus so much on God you can tune out all the issues you have with friends, school, work, family, gossip, ect? Have you entered another world with Jesus?  when was the last time God told you to just trust Him a bit, and we are hesitant to give him our lives?  When was the last time we wanted to just be alone but we felt like there was something distracting us?  

 

All these things ran through my head when I was finishing at the cash register.  I had missed the fact that God is wanting us to enter into another dimension of life to passionately pursue him!  The problem is that we have things distracting us, we haven’t been able to make the bookshelf turn into green grass. I think God is saying, I want you to have the pony.  I want you to enter into another world with me and let me show you so many really really really really cool things that will rock your world!  

 

So I had to ask myself, do I want the pony?

 

 

 

 

my answer is yes. I want a Pony.

 

L.

 

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