WHY?
People need encouragement to keep them on track with God's plan for their lives.
I originally had this idea in 2000 as a means to encourage those in the ministry - pastors, evangelists, etc. I wanted to plant a seed back into the lives of those that have spoken life into so many souls. I felt that sometimes people look at them and feel they don't need encouragement because they are encouragers. I soon realized that everyone needs to be encourage.
Daily situations bump into our lives, damage our faith, and distract us from our hopes and dreams.
David's solution to his daily struggles was to "encourage himself in the Lord." Words are life, and encouraging words can ease our distress, give us strength, reinforce our faith, and cause us to inherit all of the things and places that God has in our destiny.
Scriptural References to Encouragement...
1Sa 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
Deu 3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
Isa 41:7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved.
Be encouraged!
Celeste M. Payne
P.S. Please let me know how these cards are impacting your life. Send me an
e-mail at cpayne@seedstoencourage.com. I am also available to bring an encouraging word in person to churches and other groups and organizations focused on motivating and improving the lives of thier members and participants.
