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People of Encouragement - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2024

People of Encouragement details logo    Our Daily Bread - Monday, December 2, 2024
  by RBC Ministries
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People of Encouragement

Bible in a Year : Ezekiel 42-44, 1 John 1

[Barnabas] encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.
Acts 11:23

Today's Scripture & Insight : Acts 11:19-26

“Sheer encouragement.” That was the phrase J. R. R. Tolkien used to describe the personal support his friend and colleague C. S. Lewis gave him as he wrote the epic The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien’s work on the series had been painstaking and exacting, and he’d personally typed out the lengthy manuscripts more than twice. When he sent them to Lewis, Lewis responded, “All the long years you have spent on it are justified.”

Perhaps Scripture’s best-known encourager was Joseph from Cyprus, better known as Barnabas (meaning “son of encouragement”), the name the apostles gave him (Acts 4:36). It was Barnabas who advocated for Paul to the apostles (9:27). Later, when non-Jewish believers began to place their faith in Jesus, Luke tells us Barnabas “was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts” (11:23). Luke describes him as “a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith,” adding that because of him, “a great number of people were brought to the Lord” (v. 24).

The worth of encouraging words can’t be measured. As we offer words of faith and love to others, God—who gives “eternal encouragement” (2 Thessalonians 2:16)—may move through what we share to transform someone’s life forever. May He help us to offer “sheer encouragement” to someone today!

By: James Banks

Reflect & Pray
Who would you like to encourage? In what ways might you share God’s love with them through a kind deed or word?
Dear God, please help me to be an encouragement to someone today.
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