Encouragement

Moses spoke to the Israelites all that God had instructed him to do as a leader.  In this long discourse stand two words God instructed Moses to do for a fellow believer.  And in fact, it was to one God was appointing leader in Moses place and would see the promised land instead of Moses.  "Encourage him."  Deuteronomy 1:38   Spurgeon, Evening, September 17th

God employs His people to encourage one another.  God does not tell the angels to encourage us.  If His purpose can be accomplished by ordinary means, He will not use miraculous agency.  A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.  An angel has never experienced the hardness of the road, nor seen the fiery serpents, nor led the stiff-necked multitude in the wilderness.  We should be glad that God works for man by man.  It forms a bond of brotherhood, and being mutually dependent on one another, we are fused more completely into one family.  God encourages you by His promises.  Christ encourages you as He points to the heaven He has won for you.  The Spirit encourages you as He works in you to will and to do of His own will and pleasure.  Imitate divine wisdom and encourage others, according to the Word this evening.