Father, this day is Yours. Use me however You wish to accomplish Your will here at home as I look toward Sunday and in my interactions with Karen. Please help me to listen and enable me to obey.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 (<<click here to read the passage)
Lord, I truly believe that Your return is imminent. Please help me, as Paul says, to encourage and build others up. Everyone needs this.
My brothers and sisters in You—that is, fellow believers—need to be encouraged and strengthened so that they will not give up in their faithful service to You. Our world keeps getting darker and darker, but they and I cannot allow our lights to grow dim. From a reality viewpoint, darkness cannot snuff out the light! Light pierces the darkness and will not be defeated. Darkness is merely the absence of light. So, Lord, help us to encourage one another to let our light shine all the brighter!
Those outside the faith need to be encouraged and built up, too! Help me to touch them with the light You have so graciously given me. It is treacherous walking about in the darkness. We’re to show them the truth of who You are then shine Your light upon their path. Enable me to be patient and loving in all my interactions. Permeate my person with Your presence!
Yes, Lord, You are coming soon; that is Your promise, and it will happen. As 2 Peter 3:9 states, “The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”
Lord, praise Your name for your patience and love!
(July 26th, 2015, Sun, 7:03 am)
July 23rd, 2024, Tues, 9:03 am
