1 Thessalonians 4 - Praying God's Word

Please read 1 Thessalonians 4.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/1th/4/1/s_1115001

Meditate on verse 3.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification,

that is, you abstain from sexual immorality.

Paul was concerned about the sanctification of the Thessalonian Christians. The 1828 Webster’s Dictionary defines sanctification as “the act of God’s grace by which the affections of men are purified from sin and the world and exalted to a supreme love to God.”

It is God’s will for you to be sanctified. In order to be in God’s will, you cannot be living in sin. God commands you in 1 Thessalonians 4:4-5 to control your body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion.

How is your sanctification coming? Are you allowing sinful lusts to possess you, or are you allowing the Holy Spirit to possess you for the purpose of becoming more and more like Christ? This letter to the Thessalonians is also a letter written to you. God exhorts you to excel still more as you live to please Him (1 Thessalonians 4:1, 10).

Pray 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 3-5, and 7 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 “LORD, please let ___________ and me walk and please You.

 Help us to excel still more in pleasing You.


Let us abstain from sexual immorality.


May we possess our bodies for

sanctification and honor.


Do not let us allow lustful passion to possess us.

God, You have not called us

 for the purpose of impurity but for holiness.


Help us live in Your calling.


For the sake of Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell