Shan Dai Advocacy

#23 His Next Verse: Was your Christmas joyful, prayerful, thankful?

December 29, 2007 on 9:40 am | In General |

“Lydia” (see prayer journal article for Philippians for more background) was playing her guitar when we came to her house. She excitedly communicated how God recently had given to her not one but three songs while she was dreaming.
A few months earlier the following verses had been translated into the Shan Dai language: 1 Thessalonians 5:16,17,18: “Always be joyful. Keep on praying. No matter what happens, always be thankful, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.” Lydia sang with contagious joy about God’s will for the Shan Dai people. Praising God for you who are prayerful on behalf of the Shan Dai we are thankful…and that can’t help but circle back around to joyfulness. Yes it has been a joyful, prayerful, thankful Christmas!

For those of you who enjoy completion, turn to 1Thessalonians in your prayer journal for the SD Bible translation and put a big “Praise the Lord!” Here is how
1 Thessalonians 5:16,17,18 looks in the Dai script: