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Devotional: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Today’s passage: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Helpful thoughts:

  • It is good to pray that people will hear the Word of God, believe and repent.
  • It is good to pray that people would be delivered from persecution.
  • Paul was writing God’s authoritative Scripture.  If a pastor today thinks verse 4 gives him authority to tell everyone in the church what to do as a command from God, they are wrong.  That would be an abuse of the office of the pastor.  Pastors are not apostles.

Questions to consider:

  1. How does verse 5 reveal the motivation for the “doing and will do” in verse 4?  Are these Christians being motivated by guilt into obedience or is it something else?
  2. Did Paul choose not to continue preaching the word in order to avoid persecution?  What is the difference between avoiding persecution and praying for deliverance from persecution?
  3. How could these prayers for the proclamation of the Word and for deliverance from/through persecution apply to you?  Who else could you be praying for today?

November 15, 2019 Category: 2 Thessalonians, Devotions

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