Praying for Our People
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How can I pray for my people?
How can I pray for my people?
3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
4 Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
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"The nation's biggest Protestant denomination isn't as big as it used to be, according to its Annual Church Profile
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Kate Shellnutt, "Southern Baptists Down to Lowest in 30 Years," Christianity Today, May 23, 2019.
11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,
9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
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Playfully praise God for His work among his people.
Playfully praise God for His work among his people.
3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
4 Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
As people we are intrinsically wired to claim the glory and shift the blame.
2 Thes 1:3-
Measuring effectiveness numerically doesn’t provide the most important details.
Effectiveness in the body is not quantifiable by simply counting heads.
The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament 5232. ὑπεραυξάνω huperauxánō
huperauxḗsō, from hupér (5228), an intens., and auxánō (837), to increase, grow. To flourish, increase exceedingly or greatly. Used intrans. (2 Thess. 1:3).
Huper is the preposition - over, above, beyond.
With the gen. particularly of place meaning over, above, across or beyond.
gen (genitive)
Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2000).
2 Thes
auxano - to Grow and increase!!!
Growth matters -
Grow in faith!
Increase in love.
WE must pray and praise for a growing faith.
WE must pray for love .