Needing Encouragement

When discouragement settles in and your strength is spent, even small tasks can feel overwhelming. Perhaps you have been faithful for a long time without seeing results, or setbacks have drained your motivation. God sees your weariness and promises to renew your strength. These scriptures remind you that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you, that God works all things for good, and that the one who began a good work in you will carry it to completion.

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Category: Hardship
Passages: 5 key scriptures

Key Passages

I Can Do All Things Through Christ

Philippians 4:13

Paul's declaration is not about self-sufficiency but Christ-sufficiency - strength for every circumstance flows from union with Christ.

I¹³ can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

The Lord Is My Strength

Psalms 28:7

The Lord Is My Strength offers biblical truth for the situation of needing encouragement. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

T⁷he LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Be Strong in the Lord

Ephesians 6:10-11

Be Strong in the Lord offers biblical truth for the situation of needing encouragement. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

F¹⁰inally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

God Works All Things for Good

Romans 8:28

God Works All Things for Good offers biblical truth for the situation of needing encouragement. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

A²⁸nd we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Do Not Grow Weary

Galatians 6:9

Do Not Grow Weary offers biblical truth for the situation of needing encouragement. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.

A⁹nd let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Did You Know?

Barnabas was called the son of encouragement. The church needs more people who lift up the weary rather than adding to their burden. Encouragement is a spiritual gift and a daily choice.

Paul wrote his most encouraging letters from prison. Circumstances do not determine our ability to encourage others. The Spirit does.

We were made to need encouragement and to give it. The body of Christ is designed so that every member needs the others. Isolation is the enemy of encouragement.