Encouragement for the Believers

How shall they hear

Romans 10:14-15 

14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?

15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

Rejoice when suffer shame

Acts 5:41 

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

Not words of eloquent wisdom

1 Corinthians 1:17 

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Do not neglect the gift

2 Timothy 1:6-7 

6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Overcome the world

John 16:33 

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”