1 Thessalonians 3:11-13

v11: "Providence directs all our affairs... God our Father directs and orders where his children will go and what they will do."  So let us acknowledge the LORD in prayer concerning all our ways, and trust that He will direct our paths.

v12: What Paul prays for the Thessalonians, is what "we should seek for ourselves and friends," that not only would we love one another, but also that we would have a "proper concern for the welfare of everyone."  To grow in this area, we need the Spirit's influence, "and the way to obtain this is through prayer."

v13: "Our desire should be to have our hearts strengthened in holiness before God and be preserved safe until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ—to be, already now, blameless before God, even our Father, and then be presented blameless before the throne of his glory when the Lord Jesus comes with all his saints."