I won't go longer because I went longer on the offering.

As far as you know.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

You know, we're going to talk about encouragement again

because we're designed to do it.

And actually, if we're not building up people and encouraging them, we're actually not

doing what we're designed to do. We're actually not using our gifts and our abilities that God gave us

to do what we're called to do. And it starts with one another.

But we're supposed to be that everywhere.

You ever had one of those people that every time you got around them,

you just got encouraged because they were just one of those people.

They were never down.

They always had a smile on their face.

We had a guy like that in the church we went to years ago.

And every time you got around him, you're like,

what's he so happy about?

Makes me happy just to look at him. He's just happy all the time. And, you know, that's the person

you went, why, because that's encouraging. Did you know that just being happy is encouraging?

Because there's a lot of people, in fact, is the majority of people who are not.

Right?

Being kind, real kindness.

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