DAY 642 - Pray! Pray! Pray! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

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Bible Study

     Paul reminds the Thessalonians to pray so that the Gospel he preaches may spread rapidly and he is being protected from those wicked people. 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
     Paul requests prayer not only for the effectiveness of his preaching of the gospel; he also asked them to pray that he may escape the clutches of wicked people…
     Those who have preached and lived the gospel for a while will know only too well what he means.  When God's light shines into places where darkness had allowed evil to flourish undetected, it makes people nervous, then angry, then malicious…It happened to Paul much of the time, and he- like many preachers today- needed prayers for God's defence. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Galatians and Thessalonians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.153-154.

      Do you know you need lots of people to pray for you so that you can be able to preach and spread the gospel? Also, those prayers can protect you so that you will not be harmed by those wicked people. 

      
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Pray! Pray! Pray!

    What I got from Jesus today is a reminder of the power of prayers. I give thanks to the Lord because I know that many people (including you) have been praying for me and my family daily for many years. If not, I think I would be severely harmed by quite a number of wicked people. Those prayers keep me from the feeling of loneliness, insecure and anger. Those prayers pull me back into God's protecting shield so that I feel warm, secure, joy and peace. 

     Thank you for your daily prayer! I desperately need your daily prayer!
    
Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us to understand and be able to exercise the power of prayer. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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