To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
Paul prays that the Thessalonians may be counted worthy of the gospel invitation, so that they may receive, according to the fullness of God ’s limitless power, all the blessings to which they have been invited: all the graces and glories that ever the goodness of God desired to bestow, and every aspiration or heavenly ideal for which their own faith prompted them to strive; that thus their lives might glorify Christ, and be glorified by Christ, according to the gracious purposes of God in Christ (426).