Encourage Me

Are you discouraged? Do your shoulders ache with the weight of carrying your problems alone? Do you wish you could find someone who understands, someone who won't condemn you for your failures or ridicule you for your mistakes? Let Chuck Swindoll put a friendly arm around your shoulders and show you how the burdens can be lifted from your heart. Encourage Me offers tender insight into the needs of the human heart and how God wants to meet those needs through the gift of encouragement. Swindoll says, "Encouragement is awesome. Think about it: It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day . . . or week . . . or life." This classic devotional is a treasury of thoughts on finding the encouragement you need--and learning to share that encouragement with others.

A true story filled with the trials of a young life dealing with the reality of death. Born in London, England Carole grew up hearing nothing about the rich Christian heritage that preceded her in this area of South London. She being the youngest of seven children was three years old when her eldest sister took her to church. She heard that Jesus died on the cross for her sins and rose again. She believed and was very thankful to Jesus for doing that for her. However she never had a Bible so she grew up not knowing the Word of God. All she had was the prayers that she prayed to Jesus for her daddy. She knew that Jesus could hear her and she was never alone in her room He was always with her. He showed her two visions. Was Jesus telling her that she would be a part of these visions? All she knew was that Jesus was very real and the visions seemed so normal. But not having the Word of God and not knowing His promises, Carole began to drift, and when those people she loved died she became very angry and rebellious. Why did God take her daddy and all the others? Read how she stumbled through life looking for an identity until the Lord Jesus began to show her that her identity is in Him.

They Didn't Pick Me-Again! is a project filled with encouragement and hope for all of you who may feel as though the Lord has forgotten about you. This is a book of love and how the author has been through rejection, but continues to strive to please God and to fulfill his calling. The author believes that God called him to pastor, but struggled when he was not called immediately to the pastoral office. However, the author never gave up and continued to prepare as he waited for placement. As you read please take time to deeply look in your soul and grow from your mistakes as well as in the hurt that will come from rejection.

I hope you all have enjoyed the book and I hope it has encouraged you and lifted up your spirit, as well. Yes, I Understand what you are going through and to let you know that you are not alone in this world. So lift your head up and keep telling God thank you, and most of all, keep giving him praise because God deserves all the praises. Jesus died for you and me because he loves us. John 3:16 (KJV) says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." I want to thank you for taking this time out to read my book. I hope you understand that you are not alone in this big world and not know God loves you and that you are the apple of his eye.

This yearlong devotional is filled with personal experiences, practical life lessons, spiritual maturation, and biblical content wrapped up into a very detailed journey which many can relate to. The goal of this book is to allow readers the opportunity for self-reflection, draw others closer to God, and for them to allow God to use them to their highest potential with the most important conquest to fulfill their own purpose and spiritual assignment.

I pray that this book will help you to encourage yourself and others. I know sometimes it can be hard to encourage someone every day. There will be days when you don't have the strength to encourage yourself. Trust me, I know because I fight with it every day. No one is perfect, and we all have flaws. However, if you give it all to the Lord, you will make it through every day for the rest of your life. Now the fight is not going to be easy because you will have to deal with all different kinds of people. Just like my book says, you will deal with liars, cheaters, thieves, and much more daily. Trust in God in all you do, and he will make a way out of no way.