I Thes. 1,2,3&4

Thank you, father, for your grace to me. You have converted me through Christ Jesus. I have turned away from idols and turned to you as Almighty and only God; the living and true God.  I wait for your son, Jesus, the Christ, from heaven, whom you raised from the dead to deliver me from the wrath to come.

I have been entrusted with your gospel to believe, and to speak the very words of life, not to please man, but to please God. Take charge of me today, Lord, make me increase and abound in love for others, and establish my heart blameless in holiness before you, my God and father.

Jesus died and rose again so, through Jesus, God will bring with him all those who have fallen asleep in the Lord. And we who are alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will not proceed those who have fallen asleep. The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then, we who are alive, who are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so will we always be with the Lord. Be encouraged, child of God.