Summer Together | Part 2 – Encouragement

Summer Small Groups:

June 12 – July 16

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SUMMER TOGETHER | PART 2 – ENCOURAGEMENT

P. Jason Hubbard

Matthew 7:11 CSB – “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.”

THE BENEFITS OF RELATIONSHIP:

1. RECEIVING & GIVING .

1 John 4:11-12 CSB – Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and his love is made complete in us.

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1 Thessalonians 5:1-10 NLT – Now concerning how and when all this will happen, dear brothers and sisters, we don’t really need to write you. For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape. But you aren’t in the dark about these things, dear brothers and sisters, and you won’t be surprised when the day of the Lord comes like a thief. For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night. So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Stay alert and be clearheaded. Night is the time when people sleep and drinkers get drunk. But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation. For God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us. Christ died for us so that, whether we are dead or alive when he returns, we can live with him forever.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 NLT – So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

WORDS HAVE POWER TO GIVE OR .

Proverbs 18:21 CSB – Death and life are in the power of the tongue…

Genesis 1:3 CSB – Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

THE ENEMY USES MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF .

John 10:10 NLT – “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.”

HOW DO WE ENCOURAGE?

1. FILL YOURSELF WITH THE AND PURSUE A LIFESTYLE OF .

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