Praying Series #26 Gospel Ministry

“We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers. We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 1:2-3)

Week 4 – Paul’s Prayers: Paul often talks about faith, hope and love as being the badges of true followers of Jesus. Here he writes and prays for a young church plant and their witness in a city full of opposition to their gospel witness. He prays that all their gospel work will flow out of the reality of their faith in Jesus. All of their gospel ministry and outreach is produced by their FAITH in the loving God who has shown His love in His Son. All their hard work, sweat and tears in labouring for the gospel comes from the LOVE they have received from Jesus and subsequent love they have towards the lost in their community. Then their endurance and long-suffering in the face of trouble was their HOPE in the coming of Jesus one day to receive them to Himself, deliver them from the darkness of the present world, and restore creation in the New Heavens and New Earth. Let’s be praying for our gospel ministry at Room 65 (and the rest of the year too), asking God to help us to be motivated in all we do by the gospel’s message of faith, hope and love. The gospel is not just the message we proclaim as followers of Jesus, the gospel is now our lives and work itself!

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Pray today and join us tonight at 8pm in Wayne’s Office praying in Thanksgiving:

• Give thanks that God has given us faith, shown us His love, and enables us to persevere in the hard work of gospel ministry because of the sure hope we have in Jesus Christ
• Give thanks for God’s providence in giving the vision to Moody of having a building on the Royal Mile, which now is at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival and able to reach thousands with the gospel
• Give thanks that God will bring in many hundreds of people in many different stages of the Lord’s work in their lives
• Give thanks for all of the people serving on teams at Room 65 who the Lord has called and supplied for His work
• Give thanks for the American team who are coming to serve and bless the mission for the last week of August

Learn more today: Andrew Murray, “With Christ in the School of Prayer”: Twenty-Sixth Lesson – “Christ the Intercessor”
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