Good morning and welcome to our live stream and verse by verse study. We're currently in 2nd Thessalonians

chapter 3. We finished chapter 2 last week. And today our text will be verses 1 through

5. For those that are here, I'll ask you to stand if you're able. If not, that's all right.

You can follow along as I read. The Apostle Paul is writing to the church in Thessalonica.

And by the Holy Spirit says verse one,

as for other matters, brothers and sisters, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored just as it was with you. And verse two, pray that we may be delivered from wicked

and evil people, for not everyone has faith. But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen

you and protect you from the evil one. We have confidence, verse four, in the Lord, that you are doing

and will continue to do the things we command.

May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

Let's pray if you would join with me.

We'll ask God's blessing on our understanding.

Thank you, Lord. Oh, Lord, thank you so much. We live in a day that serves as a reminder that we can

easily be guilty of taking for granted what we just did

in this public assembly of openly reading your word and assembling ourselves together as a body of

believers in this your church. So Lord, we don't want to take that for granted. We want to

thank you so much for this freedom that is ours. And we would ask Lord in our time together

in your word that you would bless this portion of Scripture that we have before us to our

understanding, the application of it to our lives,

or speak into our lives, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. You can be seated. Thank you.

So, I want to talk with you today about that which Satan fears the most, which is when we as Christians pray.

The truth of the matter is, Satan is more afraid of us as praying Christians than we as Christians should ever be of Him. Sadly, many a Christian has been deceived and believed that Satan

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