![]() ![]() Our hearts hope in you and we are helped. The greatest light is God’s grace, which illuminates us. The light will eventually shine in your heart as well. And this morning has broken verse is a perfect example of how God literally shares his knowledge with us. Lord our God, you are our strength and shield. The Bible tells us many things, but I think the most important message is that we need to go through dark nights of the soul. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Ecclesiastes 11:6 in all English translations. weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. 6 Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. "I, even I, am he who comforts you." Isaiah 51:11–12a, NIV. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. They will enter Zion with singing everlasting joy will crown their heads. Lord our God, grant that we may heed your commandments, that our peace may be like a river and our. If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people – the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in. Tomorrow’s ReadingĢ Thessalonians 2:1-17: The apostle Paul speaks of the “Wicked One” who will deceive the people with falsehoods.Search the Daily Prayers Recent Daily Prayers Fulfill my desire for goodness and continue to strengthen my faith day by day so that all I do and say is in accord with your will. Lord God, I believe in the Good News about the Lord Jesus. How does Paul describe God’s judgment on those who have rejected God? What words of encouragement does he offer the Thessalonians because they have believed the Good News about Jesus? Pray Reflectįor what does Paul commend the Thessalonians (verse 4)? Reread verses 6-10. May he fulfill by his power all your desire for goodness and complete your work of faith. We ask our God to make you worthy of the life he has called you to live. 12 In this way the name of our Lord Jesus will receive glory from you, and you from him, by the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. You too will be among them, because you have believed the message that we told you.ġ1 That is why we always pray for you. 9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might, 10 when he comes on that Day to receive glory from all his people and honor from all who believe. He will do this when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus. 6 God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those who make you suffer, 7 and he will give relief to you who suffer and to us as well. We boast about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you are experiencing.ĥ All of this proves that God’s judgment is just and as a result you will become worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering. ![]() 4 That is why we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God. It is right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love each of you has for the others is becoming greater. The Judgment at Christ’s Comingģ Our friends, we must thank God at all times for you. To the people of the church in Thessalonica, who belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:Ģ May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. He writes of God’s judgment on those who reject God and the Good News about Jesus. In today’s reading, Paul greets the Thessalonians and expresses thanks that their faith is growing along with their love for one another. ![]() God’s Saving Word: Encouragement IntroductionĢ Thessalonians 1:1-12: In the apostle Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians, he emphasizes the need for believers to remain steadfast in their faith, despite trouble and suffering, to work for a living as did Paul and his companions, and to persevere in doing good. ![]()
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