Praying For Your Pastor

Praying For Your Pastor

Praying For Spiritual Leaders - Every Leader Needs Prayer Partners

Compiled by Thomas Bush, Prayer Assist

Problems Church Leaders Face - Top 5 Difficulties Pastors Face Today

From Pastors at Risk by H.B. London:. Referenced by John Maxwell in Partners in Prayer, pg. 80
▪ Lonliness ▪ Stress ▪ Feelings of Inadequacy ▪ Depression ▪ Spiritual Warfare
Opportunities for Prayer Partners to Help: Impact leaders with Prayer
Rom 15:1-2: Not just please ourselves. Build up others.

The Impact of Praying Saints

Helping: “And you are helping us by praying for us. Then many people will give thanks. 2 Cor 1:11
Caring: “Epaphras always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, following the will of God. He has a deep concern for you” Col. 4:12

P. R. A. Y. – How to Intercede for Pastors

Intercession: Earnest, urgent, and bold appeals for divine action in behalf of others.

P = Partner Romans 15:30-32
• Power and Authority: By Jesus Christ
• Motivation: By the love of the Spirit
• Join in the struggle through prayer: Struggle: (gr. Synagōnízomai): fight (agonize) together; "to strive together with, to help. Jesus agonized in the garden of Gethsemane
• Based on his requests: Protection, Pleasing
• Positive Spiritual Benefits: Joy, Refreshment
R = Recognize 1 Thessalonians 5: 12-13
• Recognize those who labor among you • Esteem them very highly in love
A = Authority 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Pray for those in authority
Y = Yield Hebrews 13:17 Obey those who rule over you.. they watch out for your souls, Let them do so with joy and not with grief,
Leaders request prayer: Matt 26:38, Rom 15:30-32, Col 4:2-4, Eph 6:18-20, 1Thess 5:25, II Thess 3:1-2
Leaders needs: Partnership. Speaking, Boldness, Spread the Word, Protection

Spritual Leaders Need Prayer Partners! Become a prayer partner today.

Praying Our Prayer Share
God - The center of all things
1. Self
2. My Family
3. My Church Family (Pastor, Church, Ministry leaders)
4. Community
5. World

Praying All Kinds of Prayers

Supplications: The requests of the people.
Prayers: Requests only God can meet
Intercessions: Earnest, urgent, and bold appeals for divine action in behalf of others
Thanksgiving:

The Perfect Pastor

Thomas Bush, Prayer Assist

After hundreds of years the perfect pastor’s been found. He is the church elder who’ll please everyone. He preaches exactly twenty minutes and then sits down. He condemns sin, but never steps on anybody’s toes.

He works from eight in the morning to ten at night, doing everything from preaching sermons to sweeping. He makes $400 per week, gives $100 to the church, drives a late-model car, buys lots of books, wears fine clothes, and has a nice family. He always stands ready to contribute to every other
good cause, too, and to help panhandlers who drop by the church on their way to somewhere.

He is thirty-six years old, and has been preaching forty years. He is tall, on the short side; heavy set, in a thin sort of way; and handsome. He has eyes of blue or brown (to fit the occasion), and wears his hair parted in the middle – left side dark and straight, right side brown and wavy.

He has a burning desire to work with the youth, and spends all his time with the senior citizens. He smiles all the time while keeping a straight face, because he has a keen sense of humor that finds him seriously dedicated. He makes fifteen calls a day on church members, spends all his time
evangelizing nonmembers, and is always found in his study if he is needed. Unfortunately he burnt himself out and died and the age of thirty-two.

Anonymous, John Maxwell, Partners in Prayer, Thomas Nelson, publisher, 1996. pg. 81.

Pastors At Risk

1991 Survey of Pastors Conducted by Fuller Institute

90 percent of pastors work more than forty-six hours a week.
80 percent believe pastoral ministry has affected their families negatively.
33 percent say that being in the ministry is an outright hazard to their family.
75 percent report a significant stress-related crisis at least once in their ministry.
50 percent feel unable to meet the needs of the job.
90 percent feel they were inadequately trained to cope with ministry demands.
70 percent say they have a lower self-image than when theyu started in the ministry.
40 percent report a serious conflict with a parishioner at least once a month.
33 percent confess having been involved in some inappropriate sexual behavior with someone in the church.
70 percent do not have someone they consider a close friend.

From H.B. London’s book Pastors at Risk. Referenced by John Maxwell in Partners in Prayer, Thomas Nelson, publisher, 1996. pg. 80.

Problems Church Leaders Face - Top 5 Difficulties Pastors Face Today
▪ Lonliness ▪ Stress ▪ Feelings of Inadequacy ▪ Depression ▪ Spiritual Warfare

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