{"id":1471,"date":"2020-12-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:42:48","slug":"the-gift-of-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/the-gift-of-encouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift Of Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there\u2019s such a thing as \u2018the gift of encouragement\u2019? There is! The Bible says, <i>\u2018In His grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well\u2026 If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a012:6\u20138<sup>\u00a0NLT<\/sup>)<\/p>\n<p>And you don\u2019t have to be talented or have a high IQ to demonstrate this gift. Every day you meet people in need of encouragement. They may not show it on the surface, but underneath they\u2019re struggling to keep their head above water. Some of them are at the point of despair, and your words can lift them. Even a smile can do it. Job said, <i>\u2018When they were discouraged, I smiled at them. My look of approval was precious to them.\u2019<\/i> (Job\u00a029:24<sup>\u00a0NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>Solomon said, <i>\u2018Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a012:25<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) Don\u2019t assume because people exhibit the trappings of status and success, that they don\u2019t need encouragement. David was a celebrity singer-songwriter whose psalms are still read around the world. He was Israel\u2019s most popular king. His victories in battle are still the envy of military academy strategists. But he had days when he felt so low that he was reaching up to touch bottom: <i>\u2018I am on the verge of collapse, facing constant pain.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a038:17<sup>\u00a0NLT<\/sup>) It\u2019s not just average people who need encouragement\u2014celebrities, kings, and generals need it too. Everybody does! So when you have the gift of encouragement you will never be without a job. So today be sensitive to God\u2019s leading, and when He prompts you to encourage someone\u2014go do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there\u2019s such a thing as \u2018the gift of encouragement\u2019? There is! The Bible says, \u2018In His grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well\u2026 If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging.\u2019 (Romans\u00a012:6\u20138\u00a0NLT) And you don\u2019t have to be talented or have a high IQ to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}