Passing On Encouragement To Our Daughter Church Planters

 

Welcome to Multiply, a podcast to encourage church planters, pastors, and Christian leaders. I am your host today, Daneille Snowden.

In Luke 19:4-6 it says, “So he (Zacchaeus) ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. 5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.”

My church planters, the power of encouragement is surmounting! Surmounting means to prevail and overcome! When we encourage others, we place courage into others! I have been studying about Jesus passing by lately and noted here, as Jesus passes by Zacchaeus, we notice that just by speaking to this man and spending time with him; Jesus encouraged Zacchaeus to become even more for God than he ever had hoped or thought before. 

As we work hard in our work as church planters, we too need to be encouraged! God does this too, and one way is in the Body of Christ! We exhibit this to our disciples as well, and how rewarding it is when we walk into our new churches and see the power of encouragement among the entire new church! 

Through out our years of ministry, God would send humble servants our way and encourage us in the work we were doing. Many times, Brad and I would become a bit weary and quite bewildered; then a woman or a man of God would lift our hearts with the sweetest, yet most powerful words of encouragement to keep going, look up to Jesus, and so much more. 

Dear church planters, trainers, coordinators, pastors, and evangelists: May I encourage you as well? You are doing great! Move forward, as you are working towards God’s Will and work He has for you! 

And remember as Paul wrote in 

1 Timothy 4:10 “For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.”

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