Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our Reading titled Seize the Opportunity was written by Po Fung Chia.

While waiting to enter the university, 20-year-old Shin-Yi decided to commit three months

of her break to serving in a youth mission organization.

It seemed like an odd time to do this given the COVID-19 restrictions that prevented face-to-face meetings.

But Shin-Yi soon found a way.

We couldn't meet up with students on the streets, in shopping malls or fast food

centers like we usually did, she shared, but we continue to keep in touch with the Christian

students via Zoom to pray for one another and with the non-believers via phone calls. Xen Yi did what

the Apostle Paul encouraged Timothy to do in 2 Timothy 4.

Do the work of an evangelist.

Paul warned that people would find teachers who would tell them what they wanted to hear

and not what they needed to hear.

Yet Timothy was called to take courage and be prepared in season and out of season.

He was to correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and careful instruction.

Though not all of us are called to be evangelists or preachers, each one of us can play a part in sharing our faith with those around us.

Unbelievers are perishing without Christ. Believers need strengthening and

encouragement. With God's help, let's proclaim his good news whenever and wherever we can.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from 2 Timothy chapter 4 verses 1 through 5.

In the presence of God and Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge.

Preach the word. Be prepared in season and out of season. Correct,

rebuke and encourage, with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people

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