Thomas Nelson - NKJV, Lucado Encouraging Word Bible: Holy Bible, New King James Version

The

Lucado

Encouraging Word

Bible

Max Lucado

General Editor

www.ThomasNelson.com

The Lucado Encouraging Word Bible

Copyright 2020 by Thomas Nelson

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson.

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Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson.

ePub Edition January 2020: 9780785203599

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019945175

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A Word from Max Lucado, General Editor

A discouragement conspiracy is afoot. Companies spend billions of dollars to convince us that we are deficient and inadequate. To sell face cream, they tell us that our faces are wrinkled. To sell new clothes, they pronounce that our clothes are out of fashion. To sell hair color, they must persuade us that our hair is dingy. Marketing companies deploy the brightest minds and deepest pockets of our generation to convince us that we are chubby, smelly, ugly, and out-of-date. We are under attack!

We can relate to the two cows grazing in a pasture when a milk truck drove by. On the side of the truck were the words Pasteurized, homogenized, standardized, vitamin A added. Noticing this, one cow said to the other, Makes you kind of feel inadequate, doesnt it?

Inadequacy indwells a billion hearts.

But God has an antidoteHis Word. His cure for the weary heart is a fresh dose of truth from the Bible. He is the God of all comfort (). Other translations say encouragement.

Jesus encourages us as well. May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father encourage you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say (2 Thess. 2:1617 NCV ).

When Jesus introduces the Holy Spirit to us in , He calls Him the parakltos, the noun form of the very word for encouragement.

Scripture encourages us. For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope (Rom. 15:4 NIV ).