It is important to surround yourself around someone whom will encourage you. God wants us to be used, blessed, and do wonderful things for him, however the enemy will try to attack and come against that. We need people whom are going to encourage us so the word of God can prevail. We need to encourage our leaders, including spiritual leaders. Our encouragement comes through the word of God, God uses others, and in the encouraging ourselves through the word is how we can stay encouraged.