Life Principle #25
God blesses us so that we might bless others.
Life Examples
Barnabas: Always an Encouraging Word
Wherever Barnabas went, people’s faces lit up. They knew that his presence brought a kind word, a helpful suggestion, and a load of encouragement.
In fact, that’s how he got his name. He was born Joses or Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, but his reassuring and cheerful ways soon prompted the apostles to give him the nickname Barnabas, which means “son of encouragement” (Acts 4:36).
Without Barnabas, there might never have been an apostle Paul. It was Barnabas who introduced Saul to the church when everyone else was afraid of him (Acts 9:26–30). And when the apostles sent Barnabas to check up on a young church, he “encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord. For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith” (Acts 11:23, 24).
Don’t you agree that we could use a few more believers like Barnabas?
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