On A Mission: Encouragement

ON A MISSION, THE HEARTBEAT OF GOD: ENCOURAGEMENT ---

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol..com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

ARE YOU A KIND PERSON? DO YOU ENCOURAGE PEOPLE? Let’s be honest: KINDNESS and ENCOURAGEMENT STARTS IN US. TOGETHER IS THE BEST PLACE TO BE. Life should be better when we are with family and friends. ENCOURAGEMENT, KINDNESS AND JOY ARE HOMEMADE! Our goal in daily living should not be PERFECTION, but RATHER PROGRESS.

OUR MISSION IF WE CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT IS TO PRACTICE BEING AN ENCOURAGER.

DEFINE:

*EDIFY: to build, instruct, improve, build up, establish, uplift

*ENCOURAGE: support, to give hope, build confidence, inspire, comfort, stimulate, foster.

BROTHERLY HATRED. THERE HAS BEEN A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY… STRESS AND DESPAIR RULE. BUT GOD REIGNS.

Esau and Jacob were brothers that could not get along with each other. They were the grandsons of Abraham and Sarah, children of ISAAC and REBEKAH. Even in the womb they battled. ESAU was an outdoors man. Jacob was a Momma’s boy. Daddy and Momma played favorites. The family lied and used deceit on a regular basis. ESAU sold his birthright for a bowl of split pea soup. Then he was angry with JACOB his brother. This was not brotherly love. ESAU MADE A VOW AS SOON AS HIS DAD DIED HE WAS GOING TO KILL JACOB. He was very serious.

REBEKAH did not want to see her favorite son die. She packed some food and some clothes and sent JACOB back to her side of the family in Haran. Can you imagine the distress and hurt that Jacob was carrying? He had to RUN AWAY from home to live.

JACOB IS GOING TO A STRANGE LAND. Jacob is not RUNNING AWAY by choice. He is running away from a desperate situation. He seems HOPELESS and HELPLESS. In the midst of this terrible storm GOD BRINGS ASSURANCE to this son of promise. GOD SHOWS JACOB THAT DESPITE THE HATRED AND RAGE, GOD’S TENDER MERCIES AND BLESSINGS WILL MINISTER TO HIS PROBLEMS. GOD IS IMMANUEL: GOD WITH US.

JACOB’S EYES ARE OPENED THAT GOD HAS MINISTERING ANGELS THAT WILL WATCH OVER HIM, LEAD HIM AND PROTECT HIM. THE DREAM IS REASSURING TO A MAN RUNNING IN FEAR AND DOUBT.

Genesis 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

God has a plan. God permits Jacob’s eyes to be open to see God has ministering angels ON A MISSION. The mission is to remind a BROKEN YOUNG MAN… IT IS OK. There are angels to minister to JACOB’S NEEDS. The angels are ascending and descending to MINISTER TO THE NEEDS OF GOD’S PEOPLE.

WHAT IS THE HEARTBEAT OF GOD? THERE IS A LEGACY TO LEAVE BEHIND. THERE IS A MANDATE THAT GOD WANTS TO USE PEOPLE TO ENCOURAGE AND HELP OTHERS IN CRISIS, PAIN AND HURT. GOD MINISTERS TO PEOPLE CARRYING BURDENS THAT ARE CRUSHING.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Could there possibly be THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE CAMEL’S BACK? Remember POPEYE’S line: MES HAD ALL MES CAN STAND AND MES CAN’T STAND NO MORE. When we arrive at the point that “WE BELIEVE WE CAN, WE ARE MORE THAN HALF THE WAY TO THE SOLUTION.” Spread the news: GOD WILL HELP EXTERNALLY. GOD’S SPIRIT HELPS US INTERNALLY. Be encouraged!

JACOB’S DREAM IS STILL ALIVE! WHEN I CAN’T FIX IT. IN SEASONS OF CRISIS AND DISPAIR WE MUST TRUST GOD. GOD CALLS US TO ENCOURAGE, EDIFY AND UPLIFT OTHERS IN THE STORMS OF LIFE. KEEP ENCOURAGEMENT AS A MINISTRY!

Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.