Verse 13 May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his Holy Ones. There will be partaking in the suffering for Christ. There are others around that go through the same and they are encouraging. If they aren't then they need to be left alone. They are not growing in grace. They are growing in the grave. That means they want to stay dead. They need to be in fellowship with Jesus. The way out is...

Verse 10 "On that day," declares the LORD, "a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the New Quarter, and a loud crash from the hills. This is a good reminder for me to not make business an idol. I must hold the wealth of the world loosely in the palms of my hand- as one of my favorite bands sang (Hangnail). One day I will be taken away and then soon all business will end. It is better to lose our life than to save it and sell our souls to satan. It is good to work, but it is not...

Verse 2 We sent Timothy, who is our brother and God's fellow worker in spreading the Gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. There will be trials in life. There will be people who tempt us to go down like they are miserable in sin. God brings people to us to encourage us and not to discourage us. The ones that are in bondage do that to us, that's how we know. Jesus doesn't do that and neither do His followers. They...