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.
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom should I fear?
The Lord is the defense of my life;
Whom should I dread?
But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;
He is their strength in time of trouble.
On the day I called, You answered me;
You made me bold with strength in my soul.
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ Jesus.
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
The people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we would abandon the Lord to serve other gods; for the Lord our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves, and did these great signs in our sight and watched over us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,
For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established; that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day.
Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, just as you also are doing.
for this reason, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith;