Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Thessalonians 3:1-6
by: Susan Bond.
How powerful is the encouraging word? Reflect on a time in your own life when you were given staying-power through a trying situation, when the right words were given to you just in time to keep you from quitting. What glory would fill the sanctuary in which those gathered are encouraged to testify.
Oh Lord, you are the Living Word. By your Word the world was made. You said to your people, "Open wide your mouth and I will fill it." Fill our mouths with words fitly spoken, apples of gold in pitchers of silver (John 1:1-4, Psalm 81:10, Proverbs 25:11).