Good News Spreaders Unite in Prayer

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 NLT

Finally, 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. 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. 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.

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Follower of Jesus, you are not alone. You are part of a family. You are part of God's family. 

There are people who need you to pray for them. And there are people who will pray for you.

Paul wants to tell people about Jesus. He asks the Christians in Thessalonica to pray that the good news about Jesus would spread wherever he went.
Paul asked the Christians in Ephesis to pray a very similar prayer for him. (Ephesians 6 :20).

Do you see the vital links in the chain? 

Paul told the people in Thessalonica the good news about Jesus. Some believed and were changed! As Paul travels about visiting new towns, he asks the people in places he has already been to pray that new people would believe.

Who told you the good news about Jesus? Do you pray they would be successful in spreading this news?
Do you pray that these good news spreaders would be safe from the evil one?
There are people everywhere who oppose the good news about Jesus. But God can protect you from them.

God is faithful and he will guard you from the evil one.

Go back to the verses above and look at the last two things Paul says. (I'll paste it in here below)

"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."

Do you see the two sides of the coin?

Love of God
Patient endurance

You need to believe, understand, trust, and express God's love. God's love should cover everything you think and do. God's love should ooze out of every pore. God's love should be the goal, the destination. God leads people into his love.

You will need to endure! You will be opposed. People will mock you for believing God's good news. Evil people will not believe. You will suffer. It will be hard. All of this happened to Jesus. Jesus was opposed. Jesus suffered. Jesus endured. But God is going to help you. God will give you the endurance that Jesus had. That's what the love of God does. It empowers you to endure like Jesus.

But this is a team, family, group, buddy system. You got the good news from someone else. You are still getting the good news from someone! Please pray for them. Pray the Lord will spread the news through you and through others. 
Pray the good news spreaders will be safe from the opposition of the evil one. 
Pray you and the good news spreaders will really stay focused on God's love. 
Pray the good news spreaders will endure.