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102: Praying for Ministers

Femina

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to Nancy Wilson's Feminine Podcast, presented by Canon Press.

0:05.0

Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson and thanks so much for joining me today.

0:18.0

Today the topic is how to pray for your ministers. You may have one minister who pastors your congregation or several.

0:27.0

And whatever your denomination I imagine he or they will be very grateful for your prayers.

0:33.0

And being a minister is a very difficult calling and it's always been a hazardous calling.

0:40.0

So what a treasure to have the congregation praying for their pastor.

0:46.0

Thomas Brooks, the 17th century Puritan minister says this,

0:50.0

Christians, bear your faithful ministers upon your hearts when you are wrestling with God.

0:56.0

Did you pray more for them? They might do more for your internal and eternal good than now they do.

1:03.0

But then we might think, well, how should I pray for my minister?

1:07.0

You know, what is it exactly that I'm praying for?

1:11.0

And the Bible gives us plenty of content for our prayers.

1:15.0

And I've gathered some scriptures together to guide my own prayers for our ministers here.

1:21.0

And I'm not saying you can pray all of these things every day, but I'm just going to give you some suggestions.

1:27.0

And you can use them as raw material for your prayers for your own ministers.

1:34.0

Second Timothy, chapters one, two, and four have plenty of material for praying for a minister.

1:40.0

And these are Paul's instructions to Timothy.

1:43.0

And I just can't think of a better way to pray for a pastor than by using the scriptures.

1:50.0

So from chapter one, you can pray that he will not be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord.

1:58.0

Particularly in this age when our adversaries are trying their hardest to shame us,

2:05.0

we can pray that we won't be ashamed, but neither will your pastor be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord that he will stand strong,

2:14.0

that he will hold fast the pattern of sound words in faith and love, which are in Christ Jesus.

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