Everyone wants to live life to the fullest.

Survival isn't good enough.

We want to make the most of our days and our years.

So we chase the obvious answers.

More money, staying healthy, climbing higher, achieving more.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reveals the surprising secret to authentic living.

It's not about accumulating or accomplishing more.

It's a challenge to anyone who's been running on life's substitutes.

So let's pick up the study now in 1st Thessalonians 3 to reveal the surprising elements that will transform our ordinary lives into something extraordinary.

Now the apostle says in his nights and during during his days there's a consistency in prayer, continually praying.

And it's not a frivolous kind of now I lay me down to sleep or dear Lord bless the missionaries.

Not that kind of thoughtless prayer, but prayer that says most earnestly its requests.

There is a fervency in it. In fact, it's specific that we may see your face, that's one request. Why would he pray that? Why didn't

he catch a ride and get back to Thessalonica? He tried, friends. He tried. Chapter 2, verse 18,

more than once. And Satan thwarted him. So he says, if Satan's going to get in my way,

I'll just say, God, sick him. It's kind of a swindol paraphrase, but that's the idea.

I'll say, Lord, I can't seem to get my way back to Thessalonica. You do it for me.

Satan keeps cutting in on my stride. I ask you, Lord, to push him back in his lane.

And you open my way up.

So I pray specifically about that.

And second, I pray that I may complete what is lacking in your faith.

What a great prayer.

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