King's Church Hastings

God is a great encourager (see Romans 15:5, 2 Thess. 2:16, etc). He has called His children to encourage one another and everyone we encounter. To encourage is to build up, to fortify, to spur forward. We are to encourage when someone has blessed us, when people are succeeding (which actually just means stepping out, whether or not it went well), when people are failing, and in all of life, to people who aren't in the Church. Encouragement is powerful: it instils courage and helps us to see things how God sees them.