First Thessalonians chapter five. First Thessalonians chapter five is where we're going to hang out today.

And verses 16 through 18. First Thessalonians 5, 16 through 18. It's going to come up on the screen there for you.

But let joy be your continual feast. Let joy be your continual feast.

Let joy be your continual feast.

Make your life a prayer.

And in the midst of everything, be always giving thanks.

For this is God's perfect plan for you in Christ Jesus.

I love that.

I want to say that just so we can get it in our home,

so we can get it in our spirit. Let joy be your continual feast. Make your life a prayer.

And in the midst of everything, be always giving thanks. For this is God's perfect plan for you in Christ. Jesus. Other translations for this verse say,

verse 17, pray without ceasing or pray continually. And as easy as it is to memorize a verse like

that, pray continually. You've memorized a verse. I'm not that great at memorizing verses,

so I really stick to verses like these. But pray about, you know,

make your life a prayer, pray without ceasing, pray continually. That, I'm just going to be

honest with you, that's impossible. That's just, that's really, really hard to do. But what Paul

is is really looking to say here, the writer of First Thessalonians, what he's saying to us today

is that prayer should be a lifestyle. In other words, as we've talked about before in the past

couple weeks, prayer is a conversation between you and God. You share what's going on in your world.

God shares what's going on in his world. You have this conversation. You have in exchange.

And so what Paul is saying is like, you know, you don't have to walk him around and be that

weird guy that's like always praying about everything and doesn't talk to anybody and has

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