Friday, February 8, 2008

Saturday's Living Water

As I type, I wonder how I can encourage each of you to stay diligent with these daily readings. To press on through the distractions that can pull us away. Today’s verse talks once again about faith. That theirs is growing more and more. Yet when we keep reading we see there are persecutions and trials going on and they are enduring. If your days have trials, tuck this verse in your heart and reflect back on it. Slowly read it again and again. They were enduring and their love was growing. What an example for us. Be encouraged. Stay the course!



Scripture
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We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.
2 Thessalonians 1: 3-4


Reading - Slowly read the Scripture passage several times


Meditation - Take some time to reflect on the words and phrases in the text. Which words, phrases or images speak to you most?


Prayer - Offer the internalized passage back to God in the form of a personalized prayer of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, or thanksgiving.


Contemplation - What word or image captures the spirit of the passage for you?

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