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Week Ten

Chapter Eleven:  Using Nice Words

Read Chapter 11 of Encouraging Hands, Encouraging Hearts prior to study.

1. Read Proverbs 4:24 aloud, "Put away perversity from your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips." (NIV)

If you follow this scripture, you will more than likely stay out of ______________.

2. Our words serve as boomerangs, good or bad, they will someday come back to us. How had Susan’s encouraging words changed the life of the editor? How did this encouragement come back to encourage Susan?

3. There are many times to apply encouraging words, for example:

1. ________________ a friend in the right direction

2. ________________ a friend.

3. ________________ a friend.

4. ________________ a friend.

5. ________________ a friend.

6. ________________ a friend’s confidence.

4. List ways you can express encouraging words.

5. There are also several forms of encouragement. For example, a compliment is a way of expressing ____________________. How did Diana find confidence from encouragement?

6. Persuasion is a form of encouragement which can help us challenge and inspire others. Sometimes all it takes for us to reach our goals is for someone to come along side and say: ________________________________________________________________.

7. Compliments, congratulations, and "thank -yous" are always appreciated for a job well done. We should _______________ these and all other forms of encouraging words that come our way, graciously.

8. What is Encouragement Playback? Let’s practice. Share a compliment about the person on you right with the person on your left. Afterwards, have the people who heard the compliment, share it with the person the compliment concerned. How did you feel when you heard the second-hand compliment?

Note: Try this exercise with others not in your group.

9. If you would like, share a time an encouraging word made a difference in your life or the life of a friend.

 

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