Bible Study
October 21, 2025 (CSB)
2 Thessalonians 3:1 – 5 (CSB)
“We Have Confidence In the Lord”
“In addition, brothers and sisters, pray for us that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you, 2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil people, for not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. 4 We have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will continue to do what we command. 5 May the Lord direct your hearts to God’s love and Christ’s endurance.”
Prayer a topic Paul spoke much about, prayer something we need in our churches, personal lives, our families and our everyday activities. Paul asked for prayer here but interesting he was asking them to pray that the Word of God would flourish as they went forth sharing the message of the gospel. Paul knew that the success of his ministry in some measure depended on the prayers of God’s people. “You cannot tell how much God’s servants are helped by the prayers of his people. The strongest man in Israel will be the better for the prayers of the weakest saint in Zion.” (Spurgeon).
God has promised that His Word would be free and perform its work and come back void: It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it (Isaiah 55:11). But as with many of God’s promises, we are expected to take this promise in faith, and in prayer, to ask God to perform the promise for His glory.
Paul encountered people much as we do today those who have no regard for living a pure life. He refers to them as evil and perverse. A perverse person is one who acts in a deliberate and obstinate way to behave that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences. They have no regard for or no interest in what the consequences might be.
However, Paul tells them that through it all God is faithful in regard to His creation.
God Bless.
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