Hebrews 10:24-25

Monday, March 14, 2022

Hebrews 10:24-25

  24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

Hebrews 10:24-25 (NLT)

What has the above image got to do with the verses? Let me explain. It is clearly one of the most commented Facebook post in Pastor Andy's FB wall (and i dare say, most who commented are Christians). What we see here are people recommending all sort of series which are on Netflix. Would you recommend a series you haven't watched and enjoyed? Probably not. It shows that many are spending lots of time on Netflix.

My thoughts: what if we spent more time on the Word? on Kingdom acts of love and good works? Would we then naturally be able to recommend Kingdom stuff to our fellow Christians? In other words, think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works?

The more time we spend with the Word (Jesus is the Word), the more we abide in Him, I believe the more we will be able to encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

Let me give just a few examples how everyone encouraged me(fresh from just the last 2 weeks)

1) A friend asked me hard Kingdom questions, which encouraged and woke me up on 2nd March 2022.

2) On 4th March,we had HOMES and most of you shared so many things which were encouraging. I mainly recall one sister's testimony about how she chose to reduce social media and spend more time on Bible etc. She was greatly blessed both spiritually and materially. 

3) We all started to share in whatsapp about what we read. So much spiritual food. I felt the need to reduce entertainment/social media etc and spend more time reading what everyone sent plus my own bible reading, plus i would choose to consume biblical content on Youtube/books/podcasts/etc.

4) Because i had so much Word in me, i somehow was able to talk about Kingdom stuff with 2 Christian brothers 11 and 12 March 2022. They too were struggling and needed encouragement. 

5) I learned so more about the book of Job after spending time to watch videos on Youtube about the book of Job, instead of the mindless scrolling through of content. 

The Book of Job Explained
( i especially like this one. It's 44 minutes long and in the past, i never bothered to finish it. This time, i watched it by parts and learned a lot)

So my dear friends, let's keep encouraging one another!
After i publish this, i am rushing off to play futsal :)

6) Thought of this during futsal resting time. On 9 March 2022, Jason shared about the Peter healing the lame beggar. That somehow gave me faith to lay hands on myself the next morning before i started work. This was because i felt the inflammation (possibly from indigestion) and had been feeling tired the last 3 days. That day, i believe i received supernatural strength to go on and the pain subsided.