Day 297: Prayer for the saints to foster the new believers as a nursing mother and as an exhorting father

Pray that the saints would follow the apostle’s pattern to foster the new believers as a nursing mother cherishes her own children and as a father exhorts, consoles, and testifies to his own children (1 Thes. 2:6-8, 11). 

1 Thes. 2:6-8, 11—Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, though we could have stood on our authority as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children. Yearning in this way over you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you became beloved to us…Just as you know how we were to each one of you, as a father to his own children, exhorting you and consoling you and testifying.

For further reading please refer to Life-study of 1 Thessalonians, msg. 12, pp. 102-104.

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