The Labour is God's!

God remembers your labour, brothers and sisters;
you work night and day, so that you might not be a burden
as you proclaim the Word of God.
God is our witness:
we have sought to be upright and blameless.
You urge and encourage the leading of a life worthy of God.
Like a father with his children,
we call each other to God’s glorious realm.
You have received the Word of God,
not as a human word but as what it really is, God's Word,
which is also at work in you as believers.
We pray that God remains at work in us
for it is not we, but God who labours
and brings God’s realm to birth.
It is indeed God who gives birth to new life within us.
Let us proclaim our God!