Quotes about Exhortation

Since the Lord is speaking directly to you through journaling, I believe journaling amounts to receiving a personal prophecy. The New Testament limits prophecy to three categories: "edification, exhortation, and comfort" (1 Cor. 14:3).

We all know that it's no good simply telling people to love one another. One more exhortation to love, to patience, to forgiveness, may remind us of our duty. But as long as we think of it as duty we aren't very likely to do it. The point of 1 Corinthians 13 is that love is not our duty; it is our destiny.

And Elihu continued:

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

After traveling through that area and speaking many words of encouragement, he arrived in Greece,

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.

In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

I urge you, brothers, to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have only written to you briefly.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.