We boast about your:
* Perseverance in persecution
* Faith in trials
* Endurance that produces evidence that God’s judgement is right
* Great worth in suffering for Christ 2 Thessalonians 1:4-5

God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you. God will give relief to you who are troubled. This relief will come at the day of our Lord’s appearing. 2 Thessalonians 1:6-7

God will punish those who do not know him and do not obey the words of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord. 2 Thessalonians 1:9

The key to the missionary’s task is prayer. Oswald Chambers

Our work, common sense, medicine, culture, education, even efforts to evangelize is not the key to our task. From the perspective of Christ, there are no nations, only the world. The harvest of Christ is produced through distress and conviction of sin. Pray for laborers to be sent out with the good news of Christ. Do not waste your time on activities, programs, small group studies, or sermons that focus on anything other than the good news of Christ, his words and actions. Pray that Christ will engineer your circumstances so that you can be sent into the field where the abundant harvest awaits. Then go and be Christ to the lost. (adapted from Oswald Chambers)

* Pray always.
* Give thanks in all circumstances.
* Repeat. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17

* Do not put out the Spirit’s fire. 
* Do not treat prophecies with contempt. 
* Do not tolerate any wickedness. 
* Test everything, every spirit.
* Hold on to whatever is good. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-22

May God himself change you through and through into the likeness of his son. 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Keep your spirit, soul, and body blameless. 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:25

Read this letter before your congregation. 1 Thessalonians 5:27

The missionary’s message is the limitless importance of Jesus Christ as the propitiation for our sins, and a missionary is someone who is immersed in the truth of that revelation. A missionary is someone who is bound by marriage to the stated mission and purpose of his Lord and Master. He is not to proclaim his own point of view, but is only to proclaim that Christ takes away the sin of the world!” Oswald Chambers

Repentance and remission of sins should be preached . . . to all nations.” (Luke 24:47).

Respect those who are over you in the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 5:12

Respect those who correct and admonish you. 1 Thessalonians 5:12

Respect those who work hard among you. 1 Thessalonians 5:12

Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. 1 Thessalonians 5:13

Live at peace with each other. 1 Thessalonians 5:13

Warn the idol. Encourage the timid. Help the weak. Be patient with everyone. See that no one pays wrong for wrong. Always try to be kind. 1 Thessalonians 5:14-15

Individual effort for God shows disrespect for him. Oswald Chambers

The day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. But that day should not surprise you like a thief. We do not belong to the night or the darkness. So then let us be alert. 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6

Put on faith and love as a breastplate. Put on hope of salvation as a helmet. 1 Thessalonians 5:8

God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:9

Therefore, encourage one another and built each other up! 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Christ will not fail nor be discouraged. Isaiah 42:4

God’s spirit changes the atmosphere of our way of looking at things. When this happens, then the things we thought impossible begin to be possible. Oswald Chambers

Live in order to please God. Do this more and more. 1 Thessalonians 4:1

It is God’s will that you avoid sexual immorality. Learn to control your own body. Make your body holy and honorable to the Lord. Do not be consumed with passionate lust. In this matter, no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-6

Sexual sin harms others besides those who engage in it. In adultery, the spouse is always wronged. Premarital sex wrongs the future partner by robbing him or her of the virginity that ought be brought to the marriage.

He who rejects this instruction rejects God who give you his Holy Spirit. 1 Thessalonians 4:8

Present your bodily members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 6:13

Measure every kind of experience you have by the Lord himself. Oswald Chambers