Ânimo
O ânimo vem de Deus. Ele nos fortalece, nos encoraja e renova nossas forças. Quando o desânimo chega, as promessas de Deus nos levantam e nos impulsionam a seguir em frente.
A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me.
Being confident of this very thing, that he, who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of sobriety.
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience.
And the people answered, and said: God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods. The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among all the people through whom we passed.
Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:
For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you: That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you, by that which is common to us both, your faith and mine.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
For which cause comfort one another; and edify one another, as you also do.
Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith,