Please pray with me:
Heavenly Father,
You beckon us to pray for our leaders. It is challenging. Our own agendas get in the way and we are tempted to pray for our personal desires for the church rather than the challenges that the church leaders, especially pastors, are experiencing.
Grant us Your insight on what to pray and how to express these prayers to You that our pastors may be fortified, blessed and effective.
Your Word clearly indicates there are two kinds of wisdom.
James 3:16Father, these leaders need the wisdom that is from above. Clearly, they cannot make headway on spiritual matters if their wisdom is earthly. Enrich their spirits to hear Your wisdom, recognize it and give them words to bring life to that wisdom and pass it on throughout their church and community.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Peace...peace within our churches. Father, grant each pastor a peace-loving demeanor. May the demonstration of this peace, in their lives, be vivid to those that work with them and those that attend their churches.
May the peace that passes all understanding, well up within them and may they love the Prince of Peace and establish His peace within themselves and their churches. May they establish peace as a methodology to squelch silly arguments, dissolve disgruntled agendas, and change those personalities that would pursue contention.
Gentleness...O Father, this has to be a challenge. Pastors are pelted from every direction. Yet the wisdom from above is gentle. Your divine wisdom moves deep. Give pastors divine wisdom to see and speak deeply and subtly to those who would disrupt, disturb or wound those around them. Grant pastors the words that change and dismantle harshness.
Full of Mercy and Good Fruit...the practical display of godliness. How encouraging to see faith in action. Grant pastors the blessing of seeing their work expressed throughout their congregations and by their congregations! Make every pastor a person of action. Open the eyes of their congregants to appreciate the practical application of their pastor's faith, and to be so moved, that they follow suit.
Father, it is a challenge in every church that volunteers are not available to help when help is needed. May the requests and servanthood of their pastor beckon them to do likewise and may it no longer be a burden to find people to accomplish work that needs to be done.
...that we may be found faithful in the day of His coming.
In the Name of above all names, Jesus Christ,
...Who is the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.
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