Your Encouraging 5 Minute Podcast
A weekly dose of encouragement to start your week off right! Join your favorite WPER hosts every week for uplifting thoughts to keep your eyes focused on Christ and His promises.
Your Encouraging 5 Minute Podcast
Encouraging You to Schedule a Daily Praise Break
Give us five minutes, we’ll give you encouragement!
0:00:04 - Heather
Thank you so much for listening to your encouraging five-minute podcast. Give us five minutes, we're going to give you some encouragement. Hey, we're Eric and Heather.
0:00:14 - Eric
At the end of the podcast. If you need more encouragement, listen to Virginia's home for encouragement, WPER. If you're out of range of where that is, you can find the app.
0:00:24 - Heather
Yeah, you can find the app. Just search WPER. Or you can actually listen on your smart speaker. Just tell your smart speaker to play WPER.
0:00:33 - Eric
You set an alarm every day, probably Work days anyway. Yeah, exactly, there's someone I heard about who sets an alarm that goes off every afternoon at 3:16.
0:00:43 - Heather
Is that what time her kids get out of school?
0:00:45 - Eric
No, it's when she takes a praise break. Oh, that's the greatest idea. She thanks God, acknowledges his goodness, as soon as that alarm goes off. Typically, when an alarm goes off, it's unnerving.
Yes, yes, exactly I've got to get up and do something. I'm not ready for it yet. I'm just waking up. So what a brilliant idea. It could be any time of day, really, once you're up and going but to acknowledge God and his goodness in our life and communicates with him. Although she does that throughout the day by setting that alarm, it reminds her. No, this is specifically to praise God for who he is in this moment. I mean, we were created to worship God.
0:01:22 - Heather
Yes, we were. And sometimes it's hard so when you set an alarm to be purposeful, that makes you have to look for something in your life to praise him for.
0:01:32 - Eric
When the highs are high and you're on the mountaintop, who needs an alarm? But most of life isn't on the mountaintop, that's not where we live. So to set an alarm and do that, it's the greatest idea. And however you do that, when you set that alarm and praise God, whether it's a brief moment of singing to him or reading from his word like in Psalms, may the people praise you, god, may all the people praise you. He celebrates his sovereign rule and faithful guidance as a living testimony of his great love, his abundant blessings. Again. God is so good, he's so faithful toward us. Set that alarm today.
0:02:10 - Heather
Yeah, set the alarm, because we always talk about encouragement. But that attitude of gratitude, a mindset of gratitude, even if it starts slowly having to set an alarm, but that gratitude changes us mentally, it changes us physically, it changes us spiritually. Most people, on average, will feel that they're pretty intelligent.
0:02:36 - Eric
I'd like to think so, right.
0:02:38 - Heather
You've got a grasp on things, got a handle on things. I think I'm pretty smart until I'm asked to tap to pay for something.
0:02:45 - Eric
Tap to pay.
0:02:47 - Heather
Either using your phone or your card. Oh, we don't slide. You have to tap to pay and I'm like tapping here, tapping there, tap, tap. They're like no here, did that work here? Wait, hang on, let me do it. Okay, tap over here and my daughter with me the other day. I look over, her face is purple. She is mortified because I can't understand.
0:03:08 - Eric
Honestly, they try to make it easier for us Sure, the people that make these little machines that you have to tap somewhere.
0:03:16 - Heather
Why can't they make them all tap the same, like that's what I was going to.
0:03:20 - Eric
Let's be consistent across the board Whether you went to a grocery store or a pharmacy or a retail, or if you don't want to enter your pin, click the red button, nope, click the green one.
0:03:31 - Heather
Nope, this store it's the yellow one. So you end up holding everybody up in line, and then they get up. They're all frustrated with you and then here they go Tap here, here, here here. Punch green, red, orange, yellow, blue. Stand on one foot. Wait, I can't do this.
0:03:44 - Eric
It's good to be reminded that we are not alone in the struggles of life. That's what it's all about Encouragement here. We hope you've been encouraged today. This is your Encouraging 5-Minute Podcast. If you need more, hey, it's available to you 24-7. Just search WPER in the App Store to download the WPER app.
0:04:03 - Heather
Or you can even listen on your smart speaker. Tell your smart speaker you'd like to hear WPER.
0:04:09 - Eric
Hey, one last bit of encouragement. Yes, and we find our true encouragement in the word of God.
0:04:15 - Heather
Oh, absolutely, we're a little old school with this one. It's Numbers 6:24-26. A little.
0:04:20 - Eric
Old Testament wisdom. It's all in there, it's all truth.
0:04:24 - Heather
Yes, and the reason I love this verse it is a little blessing. That was spoken thousands of years ago, but it's just as relevant today.
0:04:34 - Eric
Well, relevant and you might hear it, depending on what church you go to. Exactly, exactly, I went to a small country church a few weeks ago and this almost sounded like the ending part that they shared. Oh, I love that. I know so Heather's gonna share from numbers here.
0:04:48 - Heather
Number 6:24-26. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. And those words were a blessing then, they're a blessing now and that's something I know, eric, and I very much want for you to have is the peace and the feeling, the peace of God.
0:05:15 - Eric
We hope. But how can you not be encouraged by that truly?
