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Request for Prayer - 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 Topics: Growth, Love, Maturity, Prayer, Salvation, Spiritual Growth Open It Questions 1. How frequently do you stay in touch with a friend who is many miles away? 2. What motivates most people to pray? Explore It Questions 3. How had the gospel been received by the Thessalonians? (3:1) 4. How did Paul want to see the gospel received? (3:1)

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5. What prayer requests did Paul share with the Thessalonians? (3:1-2) 6. What did Paul want? (3:1-2) 7. What type of people were threatening Paul? (3:2) 8. How did Paul describe God? (3:3) 9. What will God do for people who are threatened by the evil one? (3:3)

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10. What confidence did Paul have in the Christians at Thessalonica? (3:4) 11. How did Paul remind his readers of the Lord’s direction? (3:5) 12. What did Paul want his readers to remember about the Lord? (3:5) Get It Questions 13. How does prayer change people or circumstances? 14. How could prayer help spread the message of the Lord?

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15. How does prayer protect us? 16. How does our belief about God affect the way we pray? 17. How can meditating on God’s love change us? 18. How can thinking about Christ’s perseverance strengthen our own stand? Apply It Questions 19. For what kind of growth in your Christian life can you pray this week?

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20. For whom will you pray this week that their faith may be strengthened? Adult Questions for LESSONMaker.

Welcome to Bible Study!Bible Study PanelistsRev. Rodney KempRev. Valerie CrumpRev. Jacqueline AlbertDean Donna WilsonAlicia Martin, Minister-in-Training

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2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for

Prayer”

PRAYER FOR THE SICK AND BEREAVED

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

TOPICS

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

TOPICS

GrowthLoveMaturityPrayerSalvationSpiritual Growth

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

OPEN IT QUESTIONS

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

OPEN IT QUESTIONS

1. How frequently do you stay in touch with a friend who is many miles away?

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

OPEN IT QUESTIONS

2. What motivates most people to pray?

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

INTRODUCTION

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

INTRODUCTION

Paul had been writing about the future, describing the coming of the Antichrist and the future days of rebellion and lawlessness. That man of evil has not yet come because he is being held back. Evil is at work in the world, but it is also being held in check. What does that mean for Christians? How are they to live in this present evil world, as they are preparing for the next?

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

SCRIPTURE

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

SCRIPTURE

1Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we ask you to pray for us. Pray that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you.2 Pray, too, that we will be rescued from wicked and evil people, for not everyone is a believer.3 But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.4 And we are confident in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we commanded you.5 May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

3. How had the gospel been received by the Thessalonians? (3:1)

1Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we ask you to pray for us. Pray that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

1Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we ask you to pray for us. Pray that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you.

4. How did Paul want to see the gospel received? (3:1)

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

1Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we ask you to pray for us. Pray that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you.

5. What prayer requests did Paul share with the Thessalonians? (3:1-2)

2 Pray, too, that we will be rescued from wicked and evil people, for not everyone is a believer.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

1Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we ask you to pray for us. Pray that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you.2 Pray, too, that we will be rescued from wicked and evil people, for not everyone is a believer.

6. What did Paul want? (3:1-2)

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

2 Pray, too, that we will be rescued from wicked and evil people, for not everyone is a believer.

7. What type of people were threatening Paul? (3:2)

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

8. How did Paul describe God? (3:3)

3 But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

3 But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

9. What will God do for people who are threatened by the evil one? (3:3)

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

10. What confidence did Paul have in the Christians at Thessalonica? (3:4)

4 And we are confident in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we commanded you.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS

11. How did Paul remind his readers of the Lord’s direction? (3:5)

5 May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

EXPLORE IT QUESTIONS 5 May the Lord lead your hearts into

a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.

12. What did Paul want his readers to remember about the Lord? (3:5)

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

GET IT QUESTIONS

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

GET IT QUESTIONS

13. How does prayer change people or circumstances?

14. How could prayer help spread the message of the Lord?

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

GET IT QUESTIONS

15. How does prayer protect us?

16. How does our belief about God affect the way we pray?

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

GET IT QUESTIONS

17. How can meditating on God’s love change us?

18. How can thinking about Christ’s perseverance strengthen our own stand?

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

APPLY IT QUESTIONS

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5“Paul’s Request for Prayer”

APPLY IT QUESTIONS

19. For what kind of growth in your Christian life can you pray this week?

20. For whom will you pray this week that their faith may be strengthened?

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