Encourage One Another Everyday!

Hebrews 3:13;  Mark 11:24; Isaiah 57:19; Psalm 51:10; Jeremiah 1:12; Isaiah 55:11
 
Fiveamprayer would like to welcome Minister Davis, who is bringing us the word this morning!  Thank you for letting God use you, bringing us a word of encouragement.  Amen!

We are walking in today:  Encourage One Another Everyday!

Hebrews 3:13 (AMP) But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him].  The word exhort found in this scripture in the King James version, means to encourage.  This section of the text talks about the power of extorting one another.  How much power is available, lifting one another up.  The Amplified version gives us the word trickery for the word sin--that which the enemy would try to trip us up.  What I love about this scripture, it says that if we exhort each other, encourage each other--that it is necessary, that it is needed.  When we do that we protect each other. We can actually save one another, when we do that.  When we pull on the power of encouragement, speaking life into each other's lives.  For fiveamprayer to be consistent and diligent for as many years as you all have been coming together to pray, the enemy may try to come in and play that trickery card.  That it is not working.  That it is not worth it.  That you are tired.  That you are fatigued. That you need a break.  Sometimes we need time away from ministry, to be refreshed and restored.  But you might have to pull on the testimonies that have come from every prayer that you have prayed.  For every pull  you have made on God.  On every demand that you have made on the spirit word of God.  You may have to pull on those testimonies, for every cry out to God, to bring about breakthrough and deliverance.  I just want to encourage you, this morning to keep on, because you have prayed prayers and God has heard them.  And we are assured by His word that when we pray and cry out, He answers us!  When we have faith, believing that what we have said and heard--we will have!  Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.  Isaiah 57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.  Our encouragement should be continuous, one to another.  This same encouragement can even save us from the spirit of rebellion, the spirit of give up and from a hardened heart.  When we talk about the spirit of encouragement, it is a empowering one.  Not just an encouragement to fiveamprayer, but also to Pastors and those in leadership in the churches.  That we would be encouragers to those in the body of Christ.  In the times that we are living in, we need encouragement!  I just want to speak that we encourage one another, use this very powerful tool to uplift those in the body of Christ.  According to the word of God, our encouragement can actually save the hearer--emotionally, mentally and for whatever they are going through.  We wanna definitely pull on encouraging one another.  I wanna encourage fiveamprayer this morning!1 Samuel 25:14-23 14) But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. 15) But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: 16) They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. 17) Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him. 18) Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. 19) And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. 20) And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them. 21) Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good. 22) So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. 23) And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.  In this setting of scripture we find Abigail, one who was called on to pray.  I am sure there are many different positions on the line, the five fold ministry, ushers, intercessors or prayer warriors.  I really want to speak to the ones called to pray.  To the one who stands in the gap for others.  In this account we have Abigail and her husband Nabal.  When the Bible speaks of Nabal we find that he is surly, churlish, evil, wicked and can not be reasoned with.  His people have been in the fields attending to the sheep, along with David's men and the word of God let's us know that David's men have kept watch over them protecting that which pertains to Nabal.  David makes a request of Nabal for provision for him and his men.  Nabal denies that request and insults him instead.  Asking him who is David?  Who is Jesse?  He refuses to serve David.  David is not pleased with this response, not at all!  He then sets out with his men to take out Nabal and all the men of his household.  While David is set on destruction and heading to the home of Nabal, Abigail gets word of her husbands hastily rude response.  Those who are called to pray and to intercede need an understanding that the response must be immediate!  So when Abigail receives the word of what her husband had done, she is instant in action, making ready the supplies for David.  She had a heart prepared to respond.  So as one that stands  in the gap for another in prayer, we keep ourselves in a position of being able to respond immediately to the need.  So I wanna encourage you this morning, as you continue to go forth, to seek the word of God. Seek Him, to keep your hearts clean and pure.  Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  That when it is time to meet a need in prayer and seek the face of God.  We can respond immediately as Abigail, the intercessor did.  As intercessors--understand that we are covering people in prayer.  We are covering people, that don't even know that they need to be covered.  Nabal doesn't even know the trouble that is on it's way to him.  That he has a need to be covered.  He is totally unaware that the end of his life was at hand, that David was marching up to avenge himself of the insults that Nabal uttered in his lack of understanding.  We will find ourselves in a position in a need for a immediate response from God.  Sometimes the people we are covering in prayer, that we are pleading out for, that we are seeking the face of God for--don't even know that we are speaking on their behalf.  They may not know how important the need is for God and in our pulling on God, for that person or that situation?  We have to be able to give an immediate response, we have probably all been there.  When we are going through our own thing and pressed on every side in our own lives, our own situations that we are dealing with.  We can hide those things in God, we can go forth in God, doing what He has called us to do.  She doesn't ever speak to the problem--she doesn't go and have a conversation with her husband.   The word says that Nabal was a man that could not be reasoned with.  Abigail is found speaking to the solution.  When we are prepared, it rids us of any confusion we encounter by being unprepared.  I want to encourage you this morning, that we don't speak to the problem, we speak the solution, the word of God!  We are to say what God says as Pastor Taffe has been teaching on for the last month.  That we speak the words that God speaks, over ourselves and others.  For every promise and spiritual blessing is what we speak to God.  Jeremiah 1:12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.  So we never really have to address the enemy.  We never have to speak to the problem, but we speak the word of God, we speak the solution!  She prepares an offering in hopes that David might receive it and that she might find favor with David.  She quickly makes ready the offering, that David would spare Nabal and all the men in the household's lives.  We hope in all things that as we go boldly to throne to find help in a time of need!  That we can say and stand on the Lord is my helper!  We are seeking at the throne for that which we don't deserve not for what we have earned!  I want to encourage you to keep rising early, seeking God's face first.  That we rise with the assurance that when we seek Him in humility and faith that He hears us and we have that what we ask!  Amen, amen!

We seal this prayer in His precious blood, by His Spirit:  Fiveamprayer, we will encourage one another!

Musical Selection
Hezekiah Walker, I Need You To Survive:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUHPDUsLJ0William Becton & Friends, Be Encouraged:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW-12AkEAyg&feature=related