Mutual Encouragement in Faith--March 13, 2017

O God, you watch over your word to perform it,

but you call us to perform our role, too.

As we have benefited from the labors of others,

we must enter into labor for those to come.

And in our faith we must strengthen one another,

providing mutual encouragement, as together

we celebrate the fame of your abundant goodness

and sing aloud of your righteousness.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6

Jer. 1:11-19

Rom. 1:1-15

John 4:27-42

Selected Verses

Ps. 145:7

They shall celebrate the fame of your abundant goodness,
          and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Jer. 1:12

Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it." 

Rom. 1:11-12

For I am longing to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you--or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 

John 4:38

"…I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor.  Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."  [Jesus to his disciples]