Stand Firm

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 

  But we ought always to thank God for you,  brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits  to be saved  through the sanctifying work of the Spirit  and through belief in the truth.   He called you  to this through our gospel,  that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

      So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm  and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you,  whether by word of mouth or by letter.

    May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,  who loved us  and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope

Bible Tells Us - 

. Take the risk of daring faith

Psalm 105:4-5

Look to the Lord and his strength;

 seek his face  always.

    Remember the wonders  he has done,

 his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

. Fill the Temple

Ezekiel 10:4

Then the glory of the Lord  rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The cloud filled the temple, and the court was full of the radiance of the glory of the Lord.

Thought 

. Ice on trees will bend many a branch to the point of breaking.  Similarly, I see a great many people bowed down and crushed by their afflictions.  Yet every now and then I meet someone who sings in affliction, and then I thank God for my own circumstance as well as his.  

There is never a song more beautiful than that which is sung in the night.  You may remember the story of a woman who, when her only child died, looked toward heaven as with the face of an angel and said, “I give you joy, my sweet child.”  That solitary, simple sentence has stayed with me for many years, often energizing and comforting me. - Henry Ward Beecher

[Message No: 7784]