CONFIDENTIAL ENCOURAGER

What Is a Confidential Encourager?

I honestly feel each and every single one of us has at some point during the course of our life found ourselves in need of someone to talk to, someone who will listen and be a sounding board, and can be trusted to keep our conversations in confidence. This is what my personally coined term Confidential Encourager represents.

Sure we all have family, friends, coworkers, and even pastors and teachers who we could ask for guidance as we navigate through life, especially during those so obvious to others difficult times. But what about the not so obvious to everyone else times when the turmoil deep within our hearts is beyond our ability to clearly and concisely explain? And as Christians we also know we can and should talk to God about our concerns. But sometimes those closest to us are actually a little bit too close to us, thus are unable to be unbiased while also keeping our secrets in confidence. And, sometimes our thoughts are such a jumbled mess, we can’t seem to hear from God.

We could go to a shrink, you know, a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist, but don’t really want to, can’t afford to, don’t want or need to be put on medication and weekly couch time for possibly years to come. We could sign up for an expensive preset and step-by-step course to turn our lives around, but aren’t looking for a cookie-cutter, often overpriced coaching program.

Sometimes we simply need someone we can confide in, can trust, can afford, can count on to listen and interpret precisely what it is we are trying to understand about ourselves and how to deal with it all, someone who can see deep within our soul and offer encouragement without being judgmental and opinionated. Call it counseling, call it coaching,…call it two people talking, you sharing while I listen, you opening up while I interpret what your heart is really trying to understand, call it mentoring if need be. Call it a conversation held in confidence because you sometimes just need someone to talk to, call it a Confidential Encourager.

Limited by phone, reasonably priced appointments available.

Schedule a complimentary consultation by voicemail or text: 541 971 0529 or by email: taylorjamesalbert@aol.com.

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Blessings!

JUST A SIP

Rejoice In The Lord

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.”

~~~Habakkuk 3:17-19 (ESV)~~~

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Harvest Is Coming, Stay Strong

“And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.”

~~~Galatians 6:9 (AMPC)~~~

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

~~~Galatians 6:9 (KJV)~~~

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Labour Not In Vain

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

~~~1 Corinthians 15:58 (KJV)~~~

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The Lord Is My Strength

“God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.”

~~~Habakkuk 3:19 (ESV)~~~

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Would God Change His Mind?

“God is not man, that he should lie,
    or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
    Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?”

~~~Numbers 23:19 (ESV)~~~

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Why Buy Me a Coffee?

Do you remember what you dreamt of becoming when you grew up? While I went to college to become a school teacher, I fell in love with words after finally learning to read in the third grade. Yes, I will forever be grateful to those saintly elementary school teachers: Mrs. Mikus, Mrs. Day, Mrs. King, Miss Roosa, and Mrs. Thomas, who had such patience, believing I would eventually catch on.

Fast-forward just a few years as I continue to develop my craft through this website. While I definitely need my treasured technical assistant, I am honored God is allowing me to use my writing to encourage others in their relationship with the Lord.

And while my website may currently seem to be little more than a blog filled with posts, I view it as the beginning stages of a ministry filled with dreams and visions, with plans to develop into so, so much more, all for the glory of God.

I so appreciate you, my dear readers, for not only reading what I write, but taking the time to comment. “Buy Me a Coffee” is simply another way to express your appreciation for the encouragement, insight, and wisdom I am blessed by God to share. So consider buying me a cup of coffee, or two or three, and become a supporter of something way bigger than all of us. I am already most grateful!

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Have Faith & Believe

“(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations) even before God whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not, as though they were.

Which Abraham above hope, believed under hope, that he should be the father of many nations: according to that which was spoken to him, So shall thy seed be.”

~~~Romans 4:17-18 (GNV)~~~

Our faith in God allows us to reveal His supernatural blessings, bringing them into the natural realm. We must have faith. We must choose to believe, for our hope is our faith in God in action.

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MARRIAGE STANDING

Ground Rules in Marriage

Listening to “Conversations With John & Lisa Bevere” as they discuss the topic of “Building a Marriage That Lasts (part 1)”, is well suited for any couple who desires to have a loving, fulfilling, enriching,… and long-term relationship. This particular podcast includes John & Lisa answering questions concerning such topics as prenuptial agreements and who should lead and when.

Standing for marriage as I am honored and blessed by God to be called to do, I have come to realize just how much finger pointing I was guilty of and how often I should have been pointing my finger at myself and not at my wonderful husband. For this I have and will continue to ask forgiveness.

“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”

~~~Matthew 7:3 (KJV)~~~

“…marriage is precious to God. He is the one that authored it. And He said He is the author and finisher of our faith. Don’t give up because nothing is impossible with God. I don’t care how hopeless your situation seems, through prayer, through crying out to God, through reading His Word, anything, anything can be mended and not only mended, but made stronger than it’s ever been before” John Bevere.

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The Greatest of These Is Love


“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

~~~1 Corinthians 13 (ESV)~~~

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