Encouragement

Dear Lord please be with us this day and may Your Holy Spirit please be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and protection that You have given us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us on paths of encouraged good will and humble love for all of Your Children that we touch no matter what station in life they hold. Please protect us from the discouragement of feelings sometimes found on the paths of humble love and good will when the noise of hate and greed seems to be too strong for us to overcome with our weakness and timid spirit.
Dear Lord please empower us and strengthen us with the encouragement of Your Word and feelings of good will and humble love generated by Your Children that we touch, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

Quotation:*
The men who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. --Elizabeth Harrison

KJV*
Tit 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 
Tit 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. 
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 
Tit 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 
Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Tit 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 
Tit 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 
Tit 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. 

Joh 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 
Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 
Joh 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. 
Joh 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.