Good morning and welcome to our live stream and verse by verse study.

We're currently in 2 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 1, 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 2, 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.

Lord, 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 is to be feared when in fact

he is a defeated foe you know this morning I when I was preparing for today, the Lord just reminded me of Isaiah,

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