At the end of chapter 2 and at the beginning of

chapter 3 we find the apostle Paul praying for and

exhorting the church in Thessalonki and then asking

the church to pray for him. Can you imagine what

that would have been like to be asked to pray for the

apostle Paul? What do you pray for a man so

greatly used of God who by the end of his life had

traveled close to 12,000 miles mostly on foot to

share the gospel, penned 13 books of the New

Testament and planted 14 churches that we know

of.