Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Think about disciple making what it means for you and I to make disciples of all the nations the heart here Paul says what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before the Lord Jesus at his coming so thinking about when Jesus comes back what's what's our hope on that day what's going to be our joy on that day what's going to be our crown of boasting in our lives when Jesus comes back he says is it not you he's talking about the church of the Thessalonians

he says you are our glory and joy the picture here is Paul saying I've lived for you to know Jesus to love Jesus to experience the love of Jesus in your life and when Jesus comes back your lives are going to be my joy your lives they're my hope my crown of boasting will be most proud of in a good gospel saturated kind of way when Jesus comes back you will be my glory you will be my joy you the people that I've had an arbitrary

lead to Jesus and help grow in Jesus and I just want to encourage you today and in my own life today live for this let's live for this joy the joy of leading people to Jesus and helping people grow in Jesus

I imagine Jesus was to come back a year from now let's just picture it obviously he can come back at any single moment and we pray that he would but imagine he comes back one year from now on that day when she just comes back what what do you want to present to him with your life don't you want to present to him people who you've loved and you've led to him don't you want to present people who you've held to grow in him this is what it means to make the disciples to live to lead others

to know and experience and love Jesus into enjoy the love of Jesus in their lives so that they look forward to his coming as a result of your life so God we pray help us to live for people like this we pray in our homes our families with roommates you help us to live to build up others in Jesus to lead those around us to Jesus in our homes

and our workplaces our schools our neighborhoods just in the communities where we live in the cities where we live God we pray help us to be active in sharing the gospel and use us to lead people to Jesus we pray to see other people in this way as our hope and our joy and a crown of boasting at your coming knowing it's not because of us ultimately it's because of your grace in us because your power of your spirit in us the people's lives are transformed for eternal life

God we want to be a part of that and so we pray that that would be the food of our lives disciples made and disciples who've grown and you got to help us to live for this today and and not just right around us we think about when we pray for unreached people we pray today for the Bellatong people oh God of the small island of Bellatong in Indonesia

look at it in the South China Sea on the east of Samatra and the few believers who are there God we pray for their strength for your help for them that you would give them everything they need to spread the gospel among their people that you would send labors from other parts of Indonesia brothers and sisters from in and outside of Indonesia to spread the gospel among the Bellatong so that when you return Lord Jesus there would be a multitude of Bellatong men and women who

know you and are walking with you as a result of our prayers and our giving and are working together with the body of Christ to get the gospel to the Bellatong in 7,000 other unreached people groups like them God we want

Unreach people groups being reached with the gospel be the fruit of our lives at your coming help us God to live for this today for the sake of other people to be ready at your coming to know you at your coming as a result

of how you use our lives in their lives may it be so we pray according to your word in verses on the ins to 1920 in Jesus name and we pray Jesus come quickly amen.