Devotionals

Joy Filled Journey

by PamFord Davis 
04/29/21
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Ever feel discouraged?

You’re in good company; many of the prophets succumbed to discouragement.

Missionaries, evangelists, pastors and Bible teachers are not exempt. They might experience burnout, chronic illness or common fatigue. Our words of affirmation and encouragement may mean more than we’ll ever know.

“Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, just as you also are doing (1 Thessalonians 5:11 NASB).”

Their work, our work for the Lord must continue.

“Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be firm, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:58 NASB).”

Stay in the race.

“Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NASB).”

We encourage one another.

The LORD gives us strength for the joy filled journey.

“Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary (Isaiah 40:31 NASB).”