For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.
Paul the apostle said, "I'd beat my body to keep in subjection lest having preached to others I'd be put on the shelf"( 1 Corinthians 9:27 ). If we don't keep our body in subjection, we can be put on the shelf very easily. So many ministers have been destroyed by pride or by greed or by lust. And they let the body get the best of them and they become destroyed, no longer usable. My prayer that I will remained usable. I only have one purpose for living, and one main purpose for living and that is to do the work of the Lord, that which God has called me to do. Pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and he be glorified, through his word, even as you have experienced the power of God's word in your life: