Our Daily Bread: A Plea for Prayer

A PLEA FOR PRAYER
Jennifer Benson Schuldt




READ:  2 Thessalonians  3:1-5
Brethren, pray for us.  -  2 Thessalonians 3:1





 A missionary life recently visited the Bible study I was attending. She described what it had been like to pack up her household, part with friends, and relocate to a distant country. When she and her family arrived, they were greeted with flourishing drug-trade and hazardous roadways. The language barrier brought on bouts of loneliness. They contracted four different stomach viruses. And her oldest daughter narrowly escaped death after falling through a railing on an unsafe stairwell. They needed prayer.




The apostle Paul experienced danger and hardship as  missionary. He was imprisoned, shipwrecked and beaten. It's no surprise that his letters contained pleas for prayer. He asked the believers in Thessalonica to pray for success in spreading the gospel - that God's words would "run swiftly and be glorified" (2 Thess. 3:1) and that God would deliver him from " unreasonable and wicked men" (v.2). Paul knew he would need to open [his] mouth boldly" and declare the gospel (Eph. 6:19), which was yet another prayer request.





Do you know people who need supernatural help as they spread the good news of Christ? Remember Paul's appeal, "Brethren, pray for us" (2 Thess. 3:1), and intercede for them before the throne of our powerful God.





  Commit to pray and intercede -
The battle's strong and great's the need;
And this one truth can't be ignored:
Our only help comes from the Lord. - Sper





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" Intercede for others in prayer;
GOD's throne is always accessible. "

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