Prayer for the Spread of the Gospel

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Prayer for the Spread of the Gospel

• 2Thessalonians 31-5

Presented by Bob DeWaay January, 14 2007
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Prayer for the Spread of the Gospel

• 2Thessalonians 31
• Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of
  the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified,
  just as it did also with you

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The Word is the Gospel

• 1Thessalonians 15, 6
• for our gospel did not come to you in word only,
  but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with
  full conviction just as you know what kind of
  men we proved to be among you for your sake. You
  also became imitators of us and of the Lord,
  having received the word in much tribulation with
  the joy of the Holy Spirit,

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Prayer for the Spread of the Gospel

• 2Thessalonians 31
• Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of
  the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified,
  just as it did also with you

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The Word Runs Swiftly

• Psalm 14715
• He sends forth His command to the earth His
  word runs very swiftly.

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Prayer That They Could Keep Preaching the Gospel

• 2Thessalonians 32
• and that we may be delivered from perverse and
  evil men for not all have faith.

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Paul Regularly Asked for Prayer

• Romans 1530, 31
• Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus
  Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive
  together with me in your prayers to God for me,
  that I may be delivered from those who are
  disobedient in Judea, and that my service for
  Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints

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Believers Are Protected Because God is Faithful

• 2Thessalonians 33
• But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen
  and protect you from the evil one.

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Delivered From the Evil One

• Matthew 613 (NKJV)
• And do not lead us into temptation,
• But deliver us from the evil one.
• John 1715
• I do not ask Thee to take them out of the
  world, but to keep them from the evil one.

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When God Keeps Believers They Take Obedient
Action

• 2Thessalonians 34
• And we have confidence in the Lord concerning
  you, that you are doing and will continue to do
  what we command.

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The God Directed Heart

• 2Thessalonians 35
• And may the Lord direct your hearts into the
  love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.
• 2Chronicles 1214
• And he Rehoboam did evil because he did not
  set his heart to seek the Lord.

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Applications

• Pray for us that we will be true to the gospel
  and faithful to the Lord.
• We have hope because God is faithful.

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Prayer For Boldness in the Gospel

• Ephesians 619, 20
• and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be
  given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make
  known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,
  for which I am an ambassador in chains that in
  proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to
  speak.

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Prayer For Opportunities To Preach the Gospel

• Colossians 43
• praying at the same time for us as well, that
  God may open up to us a door for the word, so
  that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ,
  for which I have also been imprisoned

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Prayer for Confidence to Preach the Gospel

• Acts 429
• And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and
  grant that Thy bond-servants may speak Thy word
  with all confidence,

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Where Confidence Comes From

• Acts 413
• Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and
  John, and understood that they were uneducated
  and untrained men, they were marveling, and began
  to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

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Prayer for Workers to Preach the Gospel

• Matthew 937, 38
• Then He said to His disciples, The harvest is
  plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore
  beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out
  workers into His harvest.

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Our Hope is In Our Faithful God

• 1Thessalonians 523, 24
• Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you
  entirely and may your spirit and soul and body
  be preserved complete, without blame at the
  coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He
  who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.

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Our God is Faithful

• 2Timothy 213
• If we are faithless, He remains faithful for He
  cannot deny Himself.
• Hebrews 1023
• Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
  without wavering, for He who promised is
  faithful

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We Must Not Trust Our Own Presumed Future
Faithfulness

• 1Corinthians 1012
• Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed
  lest he fall.
• Luke 189
• And He also told this parable to certain ones
  who trusted in themselves that they were
  righteous, and viewed others with contempt

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Our Faithful God Has Given Light

• 2Corinthians 45, 6
• For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus
  as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for
  Jesus' sake. For God, who said, Light shall
  shine out of darkness, is the One who has shone
  in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge
  of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

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