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1 Thessalonians chapter 3, verses 12 and 13.

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all,

as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless

in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

So this is one of those places in the Bible, particularly in Paul's letters in the New Testament,

where we actually have just a straightforward biblical prayer. This is a spirit-inspired prayer

for the church at Thessalonica. And so, and when we think about the whole impetus behind this podcast even,

John 157, is, you remain in me, my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will

be given to you. The whole picture is when we pray according to God's word, we can know we have

what we've asked. When we're praying according to the spirit-inspired

word he's given us because we know God will be faithful to His Word. So the whole goal of this

podcast is just continually to pray the Word of God, just day in and day out,

to take a few minutes to make sure in our day we are asking for what God has told us to ask for

in His Word. So it's really easy to do that when we have a prayer in His Word. Like we have a spirit-inspired plea for God's provision in a certain

way. So I just want to pray this over us and lead us to pray exactly what First Thessalonians

3 verses 12 to 13 say 13 say so god we ask that you would make us increase and abound in love for one another

God we pray for that Please help us to increase today, to abound today in our love for one another, specifically as

brothers and sisters in Christ.

Pray for this kind of love in each of our churches help us to love one another well especially when we're

tempted to such conflict and division in the body of christ please help us to increase and abound in love

for one another and for all for all people God we pray

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