10.18.2014 New Testament: 2Th 1.11–12

To read the Bible in a year, read Second Thessalonians 1 on October 18, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Knowing that Jesus shall return and that He shall carry out vengeance against those who do not know God and have not obeyed the Lord Jesus, Paul revealed a prayer that he had for the Thessalonian Church,

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, 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 (2 Thessalonians 1.11–12). 

Paul prayed that God would count them worthy of the testimony that they had believed (See the end of verse 10). He also prayed for them that God would fulfill all the pleasure of His goodness among them, and that He would fulfill their work of faith and that He would do so in power, and that the name of Jesus would be glorified in them, and that they would be glorified in Him. Of course, all of this was according to the grace of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Their belief led Paul to pray:

For their worthiness of the calling
For the fulfillment of the pleasure of God
For the fulfillment of their work of faith
For the glorification of Jesus in them
For the glorification of them in Jesus