Worthy, Fulfilled and Powerful

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 (NKJV)
¹¹  Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,
¹²  that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Prayer Warriors,

We can learn a lot from the Apostle Paul prayer to the Church of Thessalonians. I know in my prayer life, I’m needing more direction in how I should prayer for myself and the people around me. Especially, my children. My prayers feel repetitive at times. Then the Lord spoke to me about these verses, I felt refreshed in how to pray differently for the people around me. There are three things I want us to see…..

The first is (God would count you worthy of this calling) when he uses the word calling here, it is talking about salvation. When He called us into the kingdom. We have been called to Christ. That we may be worthy of this calling, He makes the unworthy, worthy. We become worthy because of the grace of Jesus Christ. Pray, that we and our love ones and the Church of Jesus Christ would walk in a manner that is pleasing to our Lord.

Ephesians 4:1 (NKJV)
¹  I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

Philippians 1:27 (NKJV)
²⁷  Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Colossians 1:10 (NKJV)
¹⁰  that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

1 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (NKJV)
¹⁰  You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe;
¹¹  as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,
¹²  that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

The second thing is (fulfill all good pleasure of His goodness) that every good thing would be fulfilled in our lives and people around us. His goodness, not ours, not what we think is good but what He says is good. That the Lord desires would be our desires. Pray, we would long for the things that God longs for. What is on the heart of our Lord! What good pleasures does He want to fulfill in the lives of our children. Pray,  we would listen and know the heart and mind of God.

Psalm 21:2 (NKJV)
²  You have given him his heart's desire, And have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

Psalm 145:16 (NKJV)
¹⁶  You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

And third (the work of faith with power) we would in power in our service to Him. How do we live out our faith, what He has called us to do but with power of the Holy Spirit! Pray, we would walk in Spirit of God. Our Children would be filled with the power Holy Spirit to fulfill His purpose.

Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)
¹⁰  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 3:16-17 (NKJV)
¹⁶  that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
¹⁷  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Paul wanted the people to be worthy, fulfilled, and powerful so that the Lord Jesus Christ would be glorified. That the God of the universe would want to be gloried in me, in you and our love ones. That we would bring glory to His name. Amazing!!!