Karen’s Notes!
Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes
Volume 4 Number 23 “Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Encourage!”
June 9, 2021

As I read over Karen’s notes from the many ladies’ seminars and retreats in which she was the speaker, I am grateful for the impact that she had upon so many. I am also grateful that she lived out in her home what she spoke and taught in public. At one of the retreats, she spoke on the importance of being an encourager.

Let me share several Scripture passages that remind us to be an encouragement to others along the way.

“Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted…” (Ephesians 4:32).
“Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).

Karen wrote: Are you an encourager? Do you routinely show appreciation to your pastor, ushers, deacons, musicians, Sunday school teachers and the many other servants? There are less thought of areas of service that we need to appreciate and encourage. These would include nursery workers, kitchen helpers, those who care for the facility, those on the prayer chain, those who have the gift of helps who bake, babysit, iron, clean, run errands and sit with the elderly.

Michael’s observation: So this week, consider how you can be an encouragement to others. Think of those who perhaps have not heard a kind word of appreciation or a thank you in a long, long time. They will be encouraged. The Lord will be pleased. You will be blessed.