Verse of the Day 5/2

Verse of the Day 5/2

1 Thessalonians 1:2-3. We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. 3 We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.  New International Version

I'm sure that you've asked people to pray for you at times in your life and I'm also sure that people have asked you to pray for them.  The standard response in both situations is to let the other person know that you indeed will pray for them or are praying for them as you write or send the response.  Today's verses are a reminder of what taking an extra step in offering encouragement and thanks to that person can do.

Think of ways that you may be able to do that, stating perhaps how you've been encouraged by their hope, faith, love and endurance shown in the past and that you're praying that God will continue to strengthen them in the current challenges being faced.

Pastor Chuck Swindoll writes, " For those who are in a difficult strait, under pressure, up against a wall, facing a test—perhaps the greatest in their lives—we ask that You remind them that the saint who advances on his or her knees never retreats. Help them remember that You are still on Your throne and they are still at Your footstool . . . with only a knee's distance between the two of you."

If someone asks you to pray for them today, please do so and while responding encourage them in hope, in faith and in love.

Blessings, 

Mike 

Folllow the Verse of the Day blog at http://mikesvotd.blogspot.com  Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,

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1 Thessalonians 1:2-8
New International Version
Thanksgiving for the Thessalonians' Faith
2 We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. 3 We remember before our God and Fatheryour work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
4 For we know, brothers and sisters[a] loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake.6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joygiven by the Holy Spirit. 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 The Lord's messagerang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it,